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Home - DOS, Windows 32 & 64 bit MAME Arcade Cabinet Configurations MAME arcade machine configurations .....the Final Fight since 2001 Home MAME Attract Movie Generation Script MAME Configurations Blog ARCHIVED [DOS MAME] x64 MAME Cabinet Contact Site Map Welcome DOS & Windows MAME arcade cabinet configurations Here you'll find my Windows & MS-DOS MAME blog Please take time to read the disclaimer since we will be delving into the back of an arcade cabinet Enjoy... Site Disclaimer WARNING: THESE PAGES CONTAIN INFORMATION RELATING TO THE MODIFYING & HANDLING OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT WHICH CAN BE DAMAGED BY ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE OR MAY CONTAIN HIGH VOLTAGES OR DANGEROUS ELECTRICAL CURRENT WE TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR DAMAGE TO YOUR EQUIPMENT, OR YOUR HEALTH, OR YOUR DEATH AS A RESULT OF USING THIS SITE!! PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION DOS MAME Retired 9/23/2013 Today I'm officially retiring my DOS MAME pages. As of writing, MAME is at version 0.150 - I make that 44 releases away from the last DOS source released over 7 years ago. It's time ! My DOS MAME support pages started way back in 2001, where my initial driver was to create a PC based arcade cabinet, with fast boot and no clues it was a PC under to hood, and in turn publish the findings to help others with similar goals. Since then there have been many many advances to MAME, MAME frontends, Operating Systems and PC hardware which IMO have rendered my DOS MAME efforts kinda obsolete....and have been for a long time now. With SSD hard drives, faster CPUs and RAM, and 64-bit operating systems like Windows 7 and Linux there is now much more choice, with better and faster alternatives to running up MAME either on a desktop PC or in a dedicated arcade cabinet conversion like mine. Having said all of that, DOS MAME is still alive and active with the likes of AdvanceMAME et-al, and it's still a great platform for a fast booting arcade cabinet. I simply prefer the flexibility of being able to run MAME, ZSES and regular PC games all from a single frontend like MALA. So moving forward, I'm still around, and I'm still tweaking and modding, and I'll be concentrating on developing my MAME movie script.....albeit very slowly LOL. All of the above will be posted here as always. Best wishes, dosmame x64MAME - Windows 7 Config 12/7/2012 Windows 7 Config (WIP) Set a static IP address with NO gateway or DNS to prevent internet access START-uac - set to bottom option screen resolution 1024x768 monitor refresh rate 60hz firewall off services security center disabled windows updatesdisabled set to max performance disable system restore set sounds to none set volume to 100% turn off remote assistance set background to black turn power management off disable program compatibility assistant - gpedit Disable_Program_Compatibility_Assistant.reg uninstall tablet pc components windows gadget platform disable last access time - fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1 install video card drivers wifi drivers tightvnc setup windows to log on automatically netplwiz uncheck 'users must enter a username.....' add the login credentials reboot SSD Disk C c:\arcade\.. dump all files EXCEPT ROMS and PC games here run MALA from here too SATA DISK D all roms and PC games live here SATA DISK E Backup of C & D Windows Tweaks Prerequisites Install Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Install take-ownership.reg Install Resource Hacker http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker / Cursor Transparent Cursor Take ownership of windows resource files - Right-click on the file and 'Take Ownership' C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll C:\Windows\System32\en-US\winlogon.exe.mui C:\Windows\Branding\Basebrd\basebrd.dll Copy the windows resource files to your desktop C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll C:\Windows\System32\en-US\winlogon.exe.mui C:\Windows\Branding\Basebrd\basebrd.dll Remove Windows Branding 'Run as Administrator' - C:\Program Files (x86)\Resource Hacker\ResHacker.exe open basebrd.dll on your desktop delete each bitmap resource (click on the bitmap folder on the left, open each item, right click on the numbered file and choose delete). save the file to your desktop Remove 'Welcome Screen' text http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/126315-welcome-log-text-message-change.html 'Run as Administrator' - C:\Program Files (x86)\Resource Hacker\ResHacker.exe open winlogon.exe.mui on your desktop string from the left menu and delete the text from items 63 and 64. save the file to your desktop Remove the Welcome Screen spinning circle 'Run as Administrator' - C:\Program Files (x86)\Resource Hacker\ResHacker.exe open imageres.dll on your desktop in the bitmaps section on the left menu and delete each one save the file to your desktop Copy the hacked Windows Resource files to their original location C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll C:\Windows\System32\en-US\winlogon.exe.mui C:\Windows\Branding\Basebrd\basebrd.dll Cursors copy transparentCursor.cur to c:\windows\cursors install transparentcursor.reg set the mouse cursor in control panel to XXTRANSPARENT Change the Windows Logon Screen Install and run http://www.julien-manici.com/windows_7_logon_background_changer/ http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/5382-log-screen-change.html Change the boot animation Install and run the Windows 7 Boot Updater http://www.coderforlife.com/projects/win7boot/ change the settings to 'No messages' set a single image or a number of images as an animation Set shell Regedit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon 'Shell' "c:\arcade\mala\mala.exe" Disable Windows 7 auto recovery menu cmd as administrator bcdedit /set {current} bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures reboot - not power off!! If you have a power kill switch, you'll need to set the hard drives policy for 'Quick Removal' to avoid disk corruption. There will be a performance hit as it disabled write caching. device manager right click hard drive policies removal policy - quick removal x64MAME - All Change 12/7/2012 I've been having some reliability issues with Windows XP x64 - lock outs & slowness, so I've gone ahead an migrated my Final Fight Cabinet to Windows 7 x64 which I've been holding off because I was unable to completely hide the OS whilst booting. But now it's done. Also I've upgraded the video card to an Nvidia 8800 GTS which should provide better PC game support, as I run Crazy Taxi 3, Raiden III and Virtual Tennis 2009. In addition I'm using an SSD for the boot device to help improve boot and menu performance. MALA and all game images and snaps now reside on the SSD. ROMs and PC games are on the SATA disk - mainly because it's only a 60GB SSD. Final Fight - Creating Attract Movies 6/16/2011 Here is a shell script I've written to generate AVI files for your favorite game Just copy everything below into a text file and save as MAME2AVI.BAT Run MAME2AVI The script will search and create and missing attract movies Read the instructions @echo off :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::: ::: ::: MAME ATTRACT CREATOR SCRIPT ::: ::: ::: ::: DOSMAME V1.0 June 2011 ::: ::: ::: ::: HTTP://DOSMAME.MAMEWORLD.NET ::: ::: ::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::: ::: ::: MAME2AVI.BAT ::: ::: ::: ::: PREREQUISITES: ::: ::: MENCODER ::: ::: http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php ::: ::: PUT MENCODER AND THIS SCRIPT IN THE ::: ::: 'tools' DIRECTORY SPECIFIED IN THE USER ::: ::: OPTIONS BELOW ::: ::: ::: ::: A WORKING WINDOWS COMMAND-LINE VERSION ::: ::: OF MAME ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: THIS SCRIPT WILL; ::: ::: .SKIP AVI CREATION IF THE MOVIE ALREADY ::: ::: EXISTS IN %mame_dir%\avi\ ::: ::: .SKIP ROMS NOT AVAILABLE IN %mame_dir%\roms::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: BEFORE RUNNING, SETUP YOUR USER OPTIONS! ::: ::: ::: ::: MAKE A BACKUP! ::: ::: ::: ::: USAGE IS ENTIRLY AT YOUR OWN RISK ::: ::: xDOSMAMEx ::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::...