Disclaimers Won't Go AWAY!!!

[TalkingBull]

I don't understand this... the disclaimer pages aren't going away. I got rid of them in the advanced config as well as in MAME 32 itself but they keep coming around. It wouldn't be such an annoyance but the screensaver won't get past them either so the system is just sitting on a disclaimer screen most of the time. Fix anyone?

[fRequEnCy]

I don't understand this... the disclaimer pages aren't going away. I got rid of them in the advanced config as well as in MAME 32 itself but they keep coming around. It wouldn't be such an annoyance but the screensaver won't get past them either so the system is just sitting on a disclaimer screen most of the time. Fix anyone?

Compile your own version of MAME and it will take care of the disclaimers for you. Instructions can be found in this pinned topic.

[Alpha17x]

I don't understand this... the disclaimer pages aren't going away. I got rid of them in the advanced config as well as in MAME 32 itself but they keep coming around. It wouldn't be such an annoyance but the screensaver won't get past them either so the system is just sitting on a disclaimer screen most of the time. Fix anyone?

If you happen to be using MAMEUI to interface with Game EX you can do the following;

Options > Interface Options

On the right, inside the window there is an 'Emulation Options' area.

Check the following; Skip Disclaimer, and for good measure also check off 'Skip Game info'. Now when you launch games from inside Game EX, or the screensaver runs it will go right into the game.

Alternatively as others have suggested, compile your own MAME.

[IMBerzerk]

Compile your own version of MAME and it will take care of the disclaimers for you. Instructions can be found in this pinned topic.

Yeah, I second this route. It's really easy to do, and with the new Highscore diff, you can activate the high scores again. Those have been turned off since version 107?

If I can do it, you can.

IMBerzerk

[Tempest]

If you happen to be using MAMEUI to interface with Game EX you can do the following;

Options > Interface Options

On the right, inside the window there is an 'Emulation Options' area.

Check the following; Skip Disclaimer, and for good measure also check off 'Skip Game info'. Now when you launch games from inside Game EX, or the screensaver runs it will go right into the game.

Alternatively as others have suggested, compile your own MAME.

You must be using an older version of Mameui. Mame Devs frowns upon anybody skipping the disclaimers page, because people would skip them, and then complain that the game didn't run properly, which they would have known if they hadn't skipped the disclaimer page. That is the reason that we all have to compile our own version. While it seems silly, they figure if you can compile, then you understand enough to realize not to send bug reports to them. Otherwise one person could compile it, and post the compiled version.

So if your using the latest version of mame, compile!

I believe that an alternative would be to write a batch file to create an empty cfg file for every game in your rom file. Then set "skip_gameinfo 1" in your mame.ini (or use it in your Mame options).

I just tried this method, and it does work!

this is a test

[bkenobi]

I thought Tom was going to do this automatically (actually, I thought it already did...). Anyway, you can always use a launch before command with the following code:

IF NOT EXIST C:\Emu\MAME\cfg\[ROM].cfg echo. 2 > C:\Emu\MAME\cfg\[ROM].cfg

All you have to do is edit the path to where you keep MAME and you should be good to go.

I'm not sure if MAME needs a file to just exist, or if the header needs to be there as well. If it needs a header, then you would need to use a copy rather than the "echo. 2 > ..." stuff.

[TalkingBull]

Well I went with an older version of MAME (106) and now it is bypassing the disclaimer but for whatever unknown reason, the game is squeezed by about 50% and of course, nothing I do will fix it. Any suggestions?

[fRequEnCy]

Well I went with an older version of MAME (106) and now it is bypassing the disclaimer but for whatever unknown reason, the game is squeezed by about 50% and of course, nothing I do will fix it. Any suggestions?

What's your command-line for MAME? Maybe post your mame.ini so we can have a look see.

[TalkingBull]

MAME 115 did the trick. That was a pain in in the ass!