MAME Blue Info Box When Loading ROM

[Anson Cards]

I spent a long time Googling for an answer to this before posting here, but unfortunately Big Blue is a frontend, the Blue Box Group makes audio/video equipment, and the Pop Tops wrote a song in the 70s called Mamy Blue. So I got pages and pages of unrelated results.

Issue: When I start any MAME game, a blue info box pops up in the center of the screen that lists the ROM Name, Driver, CPU, Sound, Video, etc.

Question 1: How do I permanently stop that from happening and go straight to the game?

Question 2 (unrelated, but I already have your ear so...): Is there any way to bypass the "Don't Do Drugs" public messages and other nonsense in MAME the way Retroarch skips them?

Thank you in advance.

[Lordmonkus]

7 hours ago, Anson Cards said:

Question 1: How do I permanently stop that from happening and go straight to the game?

Enable skip_info in the mame.ini file.

7 hours ago, Anson Cards said:

Question 2 (unrelated, but I already have your ear so...): Is there any way to bypass the "Don't Do Drugs" public messages and other nonsense in MAME the way Retroarch skips them?

I've never seen RA let you skip this at all, this is just part of the games boot sequence.

[Anson Cards]

Thank you. The problem was that there wasn't a "sleep" entry in my mame.ini file, so as I was following your "Mame Tutorial for n00bs" I added the lines:

sleep                           0
skip_gameinfo             1

But further down in # CORE MISC OPTIONS, there is already a skip_gameinfo entry of "0". So I was turning it off at the top, and it was turning it back on at the bottom.

So for any other n00bs like me: you need to add the "sleep" entry and edit the skip-gameinfo entry.

Thanks again, Lordmonkus!

[Lordmonkus]

The sleep entry shouldn't effect the skip info stuff, it just slows the CPU down under light loads in the emulation and ramps it back up when needed which can cause some stuttering so sleep should be off in any case.