Add Authenticity By Removing Nag Screens

For a couple of months the software part of my cabinet has been stable, I haven't changed much, nothing ever crashes and everything works the way it's supposed to. However, there was one thing that had been nagging me to no end ever since I started using MAME, about a year and half ago. The thing that was nagging me so much is called (very fittingly) "nag screens", those messages that pop up when you start a game and lecture you about how playing ROMs is illegal and tell you the information of the original hardware that ran the game. That is probably very useful to developers and whatnot, but when building a cabinet you want simplicity and having to move your joystick left and right and pressing a button every time you start a game can be tiring, not to mention how ugly it looks. Because of that I set out to find a MAME version which had been compiled to remove the nag screens. Luckily, I found it, so I didn't have to compile it.

These are what I'm talking about

If your cabinet is already running MAME 0.149 and you have everything set up and running, then you can just replace  the MAME executable, otherwise just copy the whole thing and put everything (roms snaps and .ini's) in their appropriate folders.

Download (0.149 32bit)
If you're running anything other than the version I have specified above, try this blog and see if they compiled it for the version you use-