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jelwell:

--- Quote from: Farmboy90 on February 09, 2006, 10:42:09 am ---No worries.  The old post may work for you.  Not sure where to find it though.  Let me see if I can search for it....

I couldn't find it, however I do have the code change that needed to be made.  Not sure if this aligns with your version.

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Haha. Sorry, I should have been more clear. Your code changes say JOEY, cause that's my name, and I posted the code for the ancient build. Once my LCDTopguns arrive I'll think about upgrading from (I think .92) to .104 :)
Joseph Elwell.

hulkster:

--- Quote from: Farmboy90 on February 07, 2006, 10:12:11 pm ---Real quick if anyone is interested.  When you pause your game, mame will darken the screen to indicate that it is paused.  This isn't enough for me so I wanted to display the words "Game Paused" in the center of the screen.

I realize this problem has been solved before in a older thread but that code change was for an ancient build of mame.

For anyone running something this century you need only add this one line of code.  I am using v0.102 of mame.  So anything within a few builds of this should apply.

Open cpuexec.c.  At around line 482 you see this code:

/* otherwise, just pump video updates through */
else
{
   ui_draw_message_window("GAME PAUSED");       
        time_to_quit |= updatescreen();      
        reset_partial_updates();
}


Just add the line in bold and recompile.  All done.

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ehhhhhhh.....how do i recompile mame?  i dont think i ever compiled it in the first place.  i just downloaded, extracted into a folder, and played games.  ive seen a compiler util. on mame.net i think but how do i use that and will that mess up my mame.exe or .ini?

jelwell:

--- Quote from: hulkster on February 09, 2006, 04:40:06 pm ---
ehhhhhhh.....how do i recompile mame?  i dont think i ever compiled it in the first place.  i just downloaded, extracted into a folder, and played games.  ive seen a compiler util. on mame.net i think but how do i use that and will that mess up my mame.exe or .ini?

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Compiling is not for the feint of heart. If you insist. It looks like the instructions have been touched up since I did it, so maybe it's easier now.

good luck,
Joseph Elwell.

Brad:
Actually compiling Mame is a piece of cake. Check our Mr Do's destructions < -- =P here.

http://www.mameworld.net/mrdo/compile.html

Brad

Necro:
Yeah use Mr. Do's instructions.  ANy others I found on the net were totally crap and didnt work. :)

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