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Title: Play Choice, Single Screen?
Post by: Mark70 on February 19, 2006, 10:34:41 am

Does anyone know about the play choice games?

I already figured out that they need to be set up with a game select key and you use p2 to start.

Is there a way to get rid of the green instruction screen while playing?  The play screen is very small on a single computer monitor with both showing.

Title: Re: Play Choice, Single Screen?
Post by: destructor on February 19, 2006, 11:03:55 am

No way.

Title: Re: Play Choice, Single Screen?
Post by: Farmboy90 on February 20, 2006, 12:00:14 am

I seem to recall reading a post on here where someone posted how to do this.  It involved changing the resolution and telling mame to strectch the image I believe.  Or something about drawing only the bottom half...  I can't quite remember.  I am sure a search will turn up the right post though.

In effect this "moved" the instuctions screen out of view.

If I find the post I will link it here.

Title: Re: Play Choice, Single Screen?
Post by: Skippy2k on February 20, 2006, 03:04:22 am

http://tinyurl.com/owqom

Try Mame32FX, it offers single screen for playchoice games, never tried it but.  It also offers single screen for outrunners :)

What I did was got the source and copied his drivers over mame and compiled that.  Not to keen on using Mame32.

Or try Mame Plus, just do a google for it.

Title: Re: Play Choice, Single Screen?
Post by: destructor on February 20, 2006, 03:55:17 am

Oh, yes I see new changes in playchoice bios.
Checked in mameplus and mamefx (in mame32 should be too, because it's bios change).
Right mouse click on game -> Properties -> Miscellaneous -> BIOS -> Single Monitor Version

or

Right mouse click on game -> Properties of playch10.c -> Miscellaneous -> BIOS -> Single Monitor Version

or

Options -> Default Game Options -> BIOS -> Play-Choice 10 BIOS -> Single Monitor Version

Title: Re: Play Choice, Single Screen?
Post by: Mark70 on February 20, 2006, 12:50:52 pm

thanks.  I run mamewah.  I'll have to look at the config files to see if I can work on the bios.

Title: Re: Play Choice, Single Screen?
Post by: jelwell on February 21, 2006, 12:29:43 pm

I prefer to have a NES emulator instead - then I just remove the Playchoice games from my frontend list.
Joseph Elwell.

Title: Re: Play Choice, Single Screen?
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 21, 2006, 02:14:21 pm

Agreed.  Unless you have a playchoice cabinet, playchoice games are rather worthless.  All you get is the annoyance of having to constantly insert quarters.

Title: Re: Play Choice, Single Screen?
Post by: Necro on February 22, 2006, 12:50:25 am

I was just wondering why in the heck you would want to use playchoice anyway  with all the great NES emulators out there.