Launching mame games on startup

[los abrazos rotos]

Can anyone tell me how to make gameex launch straight into a specific mame game on startup? Also, is it possible to set a specific mame game as attract mode?

cheers

[celly]

Not sure on launching a specific game on start up but as for the attract mode, you can set a specific game as a favorite. Lets say, Mortal Kombat II. In MAME menu, select MKII and then hit Add To Favorites. Then in the Setup Wizard, you can change the setting to display favorites in attract mode. The more you add to favorites, the more it shows. This stands for emulators also. Hope that helps a little.

[Draco1962]

Sounds like you are trying to totally emulate a single program Arcade Cab to give the appearance of the original attract mode and start up as close as possible. If so, I would think you would be better off running some batch files on startup of your PC to directly load MAME and use a MAME screensaver (and not attract mode from GameEx). Kinda defeats the purpose of having a Front End IMO.

[rockyrocket]

Sounds like you are trying to totally emulate a single program Arcade Cab to give the appearance of the original attract mode and start up as close as possible. If so, I would think you would be better off running some batch files on startup of your PC to directly load MAME and use a MAME screensaver (and not attract mode from GameEx). Kinda defeats the purpose of having a Front End IMO.

If you only want to run the one game then yes draco is right a batch file is the way to go.

If however you are wanting to start one rom at boot then exit this rom as normal but then find yourself in your games-list and have all the features of gameex then you can not do this with gameex sorry.

I have done exactly this before with theamed cabs but using mala not gameex, this has been brought up before and tom mentioned he may add that feature.in the future.

Now tom is a nice guy so I am sure it will show up sometime .

[los abrazos rotos]

Ok, thanks guys