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Title: MAME 0.63 Game Warnings
Post by: toyguy on January 19, 2003, 06:28:55 pm

Can anyone point me at the location in the source to get rid of the game warnings that appear when launching a game with MAME 0.63.  If I launch Lunar Lander, for example, from the command line using MAMEPP, it displays a warning that the game may not play correctly due to a bad rom dump.  It will do this every time I launch it.  I'm bypassing the disclaimer and game info screens using the new command line switches, but I need to get rid of these warnings as it causes Emulaxian, my FE, to hang upon launching the game because the notice is hidden at that point.  

I can reveal the MAME launch process with an Emulaxian option, but I don't want to do that as it ruins the whole FE effect for my cabinet by making Windows appear.  I thought I had found the spot in usrintrf.c by commenting out the DO loop in showgamewarnings() but that didn't do it.

Thanks!

TG

Title: Re:MAME 0.63 Game Warnings
Post by: Birdtales on January 19, 2003, 06:35:56 pm

See this thread

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=4051

Title: Re:MAME 0.63 Game Warnings
Post by: toyguy on January 19, 2003, 07:27:23 pm

This seems to be different in MAME 0.63 now.  There is no little window with a Press OK message.  Now it appears in the DOS box just after you press Enter for the command line.  Looks like this warning is coming from a different place.  That's probably why my one attempted change didn't work.

If anyone has done this for 0.63, I'd be grateful to know where.

Title: Re:MAME 0.63 Game Warnings
Post by: toyguy on January 19, 2003, 08:13:05 pm

Never mind :^)

After a bit more reading, I see that this is really a bad rom warning, which is in common.c.  I got that taken care of, as well as the other screens.  Thanks for the tips!

TG

Title: Re:MAME 0.63 Game Warnings
Post by: Homebrew on January 19, 2003, 09:15:35 pm

How did you fix it if you don't mind me asking.  I'm having the same problem with the US arkanoid.  I know i can just play arkanoid world, but thats beyond the point.  I'm interested to know what you did to fix it though.

-Kevin

Title: Re:MAME 0.63 Game Warnings
Post by: toyguy on January 20, 2003, 12:13:39 am

Follow the link below and check the topic about getting rid of the OK screens.  It also describes getting rid of the Bad Rom warnings.

http://www.fraggersxtreme.com/arcadepanels/faq.htm#How%20do%20I%20get%20rid%20of%20the%20blasted%20"Click%20Ok%20to%20continue?"%20screens

Title: Re:MAME 0.63 Game Warnings
Post by: SirPoonga on January 20, 2003, 02:16:18 am

0.63 allows oyu to get rid of the OK screens in the ini file/ command line options.

Title: Re:MAME 0.63 Game Warnings
Post by: Homebrew on January 20, 2003, 08:14:31 am

Sorry about that.  I followed the link earlier but only seen how to get rid of the ok screens listed.  I didn't bother to go to where it explained that cause i already knew how to recompile without those.  Little did i realize the bad rom info was listed with getting rid of the OK screens.  Doh!

-Kevin