How can I Prevent Multiple Instances of Mame from occuring within BigBox?

[jroeser637]

Note: I accidentally posted this in the incorrect forum earlier and have deleted that post.

I am running a two player cabinet with BigBox. I have two kids, and somehow they keep managing to spin up multiple instances of Mame. To make matters worse, I can't seem to figure out how to reproduce the issue. I have tried the following to reproduce the issue:

-Press the select button of both players multiple times in rapid succession.
-Start and exit the game rapidly multiple times.
-Start a game, then immediately try to start another game below it by pressing down and hitting the select button.

I do not have a game details screen; I have it so you can just scroll through games and press the select button to start the game. Looking through these forums, I have seen other users comment that enabling startup screens solves this problem (

). 

I do have this enabled, but somehow my kids still find a way to occasionally get multiple instances running. I did think about having a simple bat program run before each game that closes all instances of Mame. However, I don't want to have to manually add this for every single Mame game. Plus, even though it's only a few seconds, I don't want to increase the load time for my Mame games by having a bat program run before Mame starts.

How can I troubleshoot this further? Are there any other steps I can take to prevent multiple instances of Mame running?

Edited December 26, 2024 by jroeser637
Changed color of font.