LouSir

Success. Almost exactly as I want it before I sink this into my Cocktail cabinet I made. Two more items, easy ones for you pro's , that I would like to have. The first is I would like an alaphabet along the left side (a-z) so they don't need to scroll through countless games to get to qix. The second is I would like it "locked out" so people can't get into the bigbox interface and change the look and feel as its perfect. Second part of that is when I do this how would I ever get back in, does it use a password or something. Thanks again for all your help. Maybe another will gain knowledge off my posts. LewSir

Thank you SOOOOO much. I never would have known or seen that. You're a game saver! (not exactly life saver but certainly my games.) LewSir

Ok, so I feel really really dumb but I'm going to give examples of what I'm clicking. My first photo is of the "big box options". Next I click on "show games list title". I then go back to the main window and "arcade" spinner. What the heck am I doing wrong?

So option one does not seem to work. It does immediately take me to the games list but only after showing the spinner and me having to go in and hit show all games. It then takes me to the correct place BUT if I have to restart bigbox then I'm right back at the spinner. Launch box shows it correctly everytime. Problems is it has that menu at the top and I don't want that for my arcade console I made. I just want the clr game names showing. I've included an image of Launhbox doing it right. I'm working on you solution for question 2. I am in the games themes but don't know which of them has this wall view. So I've just started downloaning random themes and seeing if I can find this 'wall view' but honestly I'm not sure where I should be looking for it. I've already told you about question 3. Sorry for being such a pain. I hate it when I read manuals and still don't understand how to accomplish what I want.

Man thanks for the response. I will try out all your suggestions. I had already tried your #3 suggestion and it didn't work all the way. My problem is not only the rom information but also the rom warning. In a game like Q-Bert it has a sound problem with a message that read "there are known problems with this game..." The option you game me did eliminate the the game info but this warning still pops up. In reading posts from all over most of them say to re-compile mame but that is way out of my league. I was hoping for a simple solution to this. Anyway thank you very much for your quick response. I'm excited to try them out. I really don't want a spinner that list my one system over and over. Thank you from a true LewSir!

First I'm very sorry if this has been asked, I looked through the posts and could not see it. That said I have made a cocktail table. I LOVE launchbox and BigBox. However there is an issue that I want to know how to fix. When I start bigbox up it has a spinner on the left side that says "Arcade" over and over. I only have one system (Mame) because what I'm trying to make is a arcade box with the original games but no others. Question 1. So is there a way to turn off the spinner and go directly to the only system I have. I want to bypass it (as its not needed) and go to game choice. Question 2. On my main mame screen in BigBox I just want to show the clear logo names, not the box or info or any of that. Just row after row of the game names in the clear graphic. How is this accomplished? I have gone through bigbox and can't see how to do it. I did do it in Launcbox but that is not the system I want to start up on my arcade machine. Question 3. (and I doubt there is an answer to this one). When I start a game it shows the rom/game info screen first. You then have to hit a key for the game to load. Is there an option to stop this in bigbox? I did put the text for mame in the manage emulators but it didn't seem to change a thing. I'm not smart enough to compile a new version of mame and I didn't see any step by steps on the web. Ok those are my problems. Please don't yell too loud at me as I am a newbie to the work of mame and front ends. Its fun but also a little frustrating when you can't figure something out. Thanks for any help you can give me to any of the 3 problems I have. Dr. LewSir