MAME Pauses When Launching Any Game - must press spacebar to unpause

[Hamfighter]

I'm running MAME 0.284

Everything is working well, except any time I launch a MAME game (either through Launchbox or Big Box), it begins loading normally, but after about a second, the screen pauses.

I can continue the launching by tapping the space bar, and everything continues normally.

Just an irritating glitch I can't figure out...thank you for the help!

[JoeViking245]

In MAME, have you remapped "pause" to 'space'?

 

Edit MAME [in LaunchBox] and look in the Running Script.  You'll see that it "presses" space 3 times to "attempts to bypass any nag screens displayed by MAME when starting a game".

If you want, you can delete all 9 lines of code (plus the 1st comment line).  aka, everything in the Running Script.

[Hamfighter]

I did see the option in the script about pressing space three times…

i selected “default” in case something was messed up, but I’ll try simply deleting it all. 

Afraid I had to give up tonight, but hopefully will get a chance to give it a try tomorrow evening!

 Thank you!

Edited 12 hours ago by Hamfighter
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[Hamfighter]

JV, I removed only the spacebarx3 script, and that did it. 
The mystery is “Solve-ed” as Inspector Clouseau says.

Thanks so much!