MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Error occurs while Compiling Mame Plus

> > I didn't know that.
> > Can I use custom buttons in official MAME too?
>
> Of course. Download it and try it out for yourself.

Also I'm surprised anybody is bothering to provide help given the reason provided is one of the worst reasons for compiling your own version of MAME.

The screens he is trying to remove are not nag screens, they're valuable information screens that save countless users headaches, and are one of the most important parts of MAME providing a positive user experience.

The majority of unwanted support cases are caused by people who have removed them.

The majority of wasted user time is caused by people who have removed them then tried to fix emulation problems they should have been warned of by changing countless other settings, reinstalling video drivers etc. when they should have seen a warning telling them there was nothing they could do and that problems are expected.

The simple cost of asking them to press a button on startup each time they attempt to run a game with known problems is not worth the damage and confusion making it optional or removing it entirely causes.

Even if the weak excuse of 'it is on a cab, it needs to be authentic' is used, that's nonsense, because anything with the warnings is going to have non-authentic emulation even if you take away the warnings.

One of the most common reasons / cases I've seen for people trying to hack it out instead is unwanted commercial bootlegs that want to hide they're running MAME (and anything based on a version this old would be illegal to sell anyway)

But there's literally no reason to provide support to somebody if their only goal is to make unwanted, and potentially damaging changes. Even worse if they're creating newer guides to help people do this (which the username might suggest) and worse still if they end up distributing those binaries.

A single button press on startup to dismiss a warning is completely insignificant compared to the number of button presses you're going to make when the game is running. Just consider it flicking the power switch at the wall, or getting a coin out your pocket ready to put in.

Luckily the majority have now seen these screens as the valuable things they are, which is probably why you're finding far less builds with them removed (not least, because I imagine the places offering such builds were also getting unwanted support requests from users with problems they should have been warned about)