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**This removes the nag screen that informs you if a rom doesn't work correctly, or if at all, if you use this no nag, then please do NOT go to the mame support site with issues with games, please only use if you understand that there will be no help from anyone at mamedev as you are using a modified version of mame.

Contents: mame.exe - Normal Mame with Nags removed. (Note mame no longer carries the 64 in its exe name changed by Devs in 0.229)

This version also allows the games Akai Katana and Dodonpachi Saidaioujou  to be played.

It's advisable to download the full mame official pack and install it, then just overwrite the exe with the replacement, this covers any changes the mame devs may have made to the support files.

After you have done this, make sure you copy the folders artwork, ctrlr, cheat, hlsl, ini, folders and the ini files from the root of your original mame folder, and move/copy them to the new install.  

If you are using your own installed/setup of mame then make sure you also set in the mame.ini  'Skip_gameinfo  1'

If you got Launchbox to setup mame for you when asked, you only need to replace the exe and play.

 

As some are not sure about  False Positives, and report a virus was detected, As goes for all versions i upload, they are all ran through virustotal before i upload, and if by any chance something did end up with an issue it would be noticed very quickly after upload and would be removed/restricted.

0.278 - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/002e59eca6b2ca765a34e7511346a4e737965167cf391530c50a70ded1b72b8b?nocache=1

 

All NEW versions of the No-Nag will be posted in this download thread only, if you wish to get the new releases every month, either follow myself or the thread, As the download section will not show any new releases.

Edited by MadK9
Updated Virustotal for 0.278 & Tags


What's New in Version 0.278   See changelog

Released

MAME 0.278

After two long months, MAME 0.278 is finally ready. Of course, the big news is that the new sound system has arrived! The benefits it brings include:

    Native WASAPI support on Windows and PipeWire support on Linux.
    Support for sound input for emulated systems that have microphones or other audio capture hardware.
    Support for multi-channel input and output.
    Built-in effects, including a parametric equaliser and dynamic range compressor.
    Better quality sample rate conversion and mixing, and lower latency.

As this is the first release of a major new component, it’s going to be rough around the edges in some ways. But we’re already thinking about some of the ways we can improve it further over the coming months.

We’ve been busy with the sound system, but we haven’t stopped working on emulation. There are some nice fixes for graphical issues in 3D systems, including Sega Model 2 and Taito Type Zero. But it doesn’t stop with 3D – the 2D classics are still getting love. Quite a few Konami games are looking nicer, including often-overlooked cocktail mode support, and all the missing graphics in the iconic IGS mahjong game Long Hu Bang are finally fixed.

There’s a long list of newly supported systems this month. We’ve got Exidy and Taito arcade games from the 1970s, LCD games from behind the Iron Curtain, and a whole pile of recently dumped TV games. On top of that, numerous additional versions of Gaelco arcade games have surfaced from the archives. In between, you’ll find rare Capcom arcade releases, music workstations and sequencers, game watches, casino games, and more. If you do play casino games, please be aware that some of the default input assignments for gambling games have changed in this release.

There’s lots of fun to be had with the computer emulation updates in this release. The Victor 9000 has had its floppy support overhauled and SASI hard disk support added. There’s been a bit of a flurry of updates for the Sanyo PHC-25. The POKEY’s serial communication support used by the Atari 8-bit computers has finally been implemented properly.

If you want to read about all the adventures in MAME development in these past two months, check out the whatsnew.txt file. As always, the source code and 64-bit Windows binary packages are available from https://www.mamedev.org download page.

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Gullly

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OK I did all that - but I think I am still seeing Nag. I guess my question would be that would I still see some ROM load up screen? def not seeing any warning or info screen. thx a bunch really helpful

MadK9

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3 hours ago, Gullly said:

OK I did all that - but I think I am still seeing Nag. I guess my question would be that would I still see some ROM load up screen? def not seeing any warning or info screen. thx a bunch really helpful

Some have replied to you with the solution, if you are still seeing this same 'Press any Key' screen then you need to have skip_gameinfo either in the LaunchBox Launch options for mame or manually set the "skip_gameinfo 1" in the mame.ini file, that is an internal command for mame itself to directly skip the Press any Key screen, this no-nag does not touch that screen or its functions. If you scroll back a few posts here you will see what this no-nag actually does.

Gullly

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Thx Everyone - I got it workng - some very detailed support and I appreciate it

 

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raywjewhurst

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I just wanted to thank you wonderful hackers and developer! I do a lot of work with the computer emulation side of Mame in an attempt to someday be able to emulate every single computer system that can be emulated using both this and others. Not having the nags makes the presentation of my various configuration look better and make loading a lot less clunky.

Aevans0001

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Awesome work for years!  I always know exactly where to look for the newest versions!

 

Thanks

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LanzSJ

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How it download? Im new here

dav777

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Thanks MadK9. Really love that you do this. I used to edit the source manually and then do it myself but this is much easier 😃

If I may ask, would it be possible to build the UI version or is that a lot of effort?

MadK9

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On 5/4/2025 at 7:48 PM, dav777 said:

Thanks MadK9. Really love that you do this. I used to edit the source manually and then do it myself but this is much easier 😃

If I may ask, would it be possible to build the UI version or is that a lot of effort?

I used to do the UI version as well awhile back, but the download numbers were sometimes single digits to zero, i don't feel there just isn't any reason to use it if you are using Launchbox to launch games, i personally just use the inbuilt ui it does what i need. Unless of course you are using the UI version for overclocking.

Its not a lot of effort, its just time consuming and ties up the computer for an hour while compiling.

Maybe someone else can do the UI version, i have left instructions on how to compile the source in a number of the no-nag threads, its not much different to standard mame, just a small change to the ui.cpp iirc.

 

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dav777

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On 5/5/2025 at 3:56 AM, MadK9 said:

I used to do the UI version as well awhile back, but the download numbers were sometimes single digits to zero, i don't feel there just isn't any reason to use it if you are using Launchbox to launch games, i personally just use the inbuilt ui it does what i need. Unless of course you are using the UI version for overclocking.

Its not a lot of effort, its just time consuming and ties up the computer for an hour while compiling.

Maybe someone else can do the UI version, i have left instructions on how to compile the source in a number of the no-nag threads, its not much different to standard mame, just a small change to the ui.cpp iirc.

 

 

Thanks very much for your response. I'll stick with your version thanks. I'll get a nice Launchbox layout.

dav777

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Thank you. Much appreciated.


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