MAMEUI No Nag features?

[nzbsolo]

I've been searching the forums and the internet frankly, trying to figure out what this particular version of MAME does. What I gathered is that it does the following:

 

1) Removes the OK/ROM screens from MAME for a more seem-less arcade experience

 

2) Does some changes to input to reduce input lag.

 

3) Does something with the scoreboard?

 

I'm currently using it for my work project for the no nag features. Can anybody else tell me what it does beyond that? Or at least link me to a project details page?

[JoyStickKilla]

Pretty sure nonag patch includes the hiscore stuff

[progets]

Hiscore is built into all the recent MAME versions. It's now a plugin and not a patch.

 

Is there also a patch for the white boxes when MAME loads? I'm using a MAME 0.177 with no-nag and hiscore but I see a white box around the edge of the screen and also a small white box in the middle of the screen when a game loads. My older MAMEUIFX 0.166 no-nag and hiscore doesn't have these white boxes. This could also be a difference between MAME and MAMEUIFX (now called ARCADE64 I think). Can anyone shed some light on the white boxes?

[Metalzoic]

Can anyone shed some light on the white boxes?

I've never seen anything like that before.

[progets]

Here's a screenshot of what I'm taking about. You can see the small white box in the middle but you can't see the white boarder that also appears when launching MAME 0.177 with no-nag to the UI or to a game.

 

[newoski]

Here's a screenshot of what I'm taking about. You can see the small white box in the middle but you can't see the white boarder that also appears when launching MAME 0.177 with no-nag to the UI or to a game.

 

 

Is this in a MAME you compiled or downloaded from somewhere? The only place I've ever seen this was a recent build from insertmorecoins. 

[nzbsolo]

So... I'm confused. I see various versions where all 4 of those features are combined, but does the latest release of 'mame64 .178 no nag ' have all these features, or am I going to have to find a patch?

 

This is the patch I'm speaking of: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/files/file/12496-mame64/

 

And by features I mean:

 

1) no nag

2) no whitebox

3) direct/raw input

 

High score seems to be included in the new mame releases.

 

Or is it just no nag? Please help a noob. I'm researching and googling, but I want to be sure.

 

Items #3 is extremely important as you'd imagine, peeps at my work love fighting games. If there is another patch, I'd love to be pointed in the right direction (aka link me!).

[progets]

Is this in a MAME you compiled or downloaded from somewhere? The only place I've ever seen this was a recent build from insertmorecoins. 

This version of MAME is part of the RetroFE Mediapack 1.1 update available on the EmuMovies FTP. Here's the HyperSpin thread that talks about it http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/topic/6237-a-new-hyperspin/page-14 . 

[woosdom]

it is from insertmorecoins. if you start the name exe by itself it'll show at the top of the window. i don't like to use the ones from that site. i've always had some kind of issue with them.

[progets]

I don't want to get off topic on nzbsolo's question.

 

1. no-nag is something that you'll want

2. I'm not sure if whitebox is a thing or not

3. I don't think the input makes much of a difference in any current version of MAME

 

I have tried the MAME 0.177 download on this site and the no-nag doesn't seem to work. I haven't tried the MAME 0.178 download yet.

 

I think the important thing to know is that many of these features had to be patched before they were compiled in the past. Current MAME versions only seem to need the no-nag patch prior to compiling since the hiscore and input changes can happen by modifying the MAME config files.

[nzbsolo]

#3 is extremely important

I play fighting games and go to local tournaments. I'm the type of guy who can feel the difference between two frames of lag on input.

I modded Madcatz TE Tournament edition fighting stick with the Brook Universal Fighting Board because it is the only current generation universal board that offers 0ms (or as close as you can to tjat) of lag.

I know that emulation has issues with input inherit in the emulation process. I want to reduce the lag ad much as possible.