Mame Emulator help

[huggins0484]

Okay, well i wanted to go back in the old days and play the original Xevious game from Namco. So, i downloaded the mame emulator from a site and added the rom and started playing it. There is a menu and it has so many controls. I went through all of them and never found one that lets you take it off of Full screen.

Away from all of those details, lol, all i want to know is if there is a way I can play the mame emulator in a window on your computer instead of full screen.
Thanks for what you can do!

[FatTrucker]

Presuming you're using MameUI, in which case you simply click on 'Options' from the toolbar, then 'default game options' then 'display'. Now check the box that says 'run in a window'.

If you're using commandline mame the same option exists in the mame.ini file. Simply change the run in a window setting from 0 to 1.

[rpe94]

Where do you find what keyboard controls operate specific games. I'm trying for instance to find out what keyboard key drops bombs on ground objects. I know CTRL fires missiles, but I need to drop bombs.

[Zach]

When you're running a game, hit TAB

It should bring up an in-game type menu for the emulator, that shows the key designations

[rpe94]

Thank you. I did that, but the only movements it lits are up, down, left, right and button 1 and button 2. The button 1 (CTRL) is rapid fire missiles, and Button 2 (ALT) is single shot.

No options for dropping bombs on the ground objects.

Any ideas, anyone?

[FatTrucker]

Button 1 is your cannons (the rapid firing double shot), button 2 is your bombs (the single shot). You need to have the targeting reticule over the ground based enemy you want it to hit.

[rpe94]

Oh, thought you would've read higher up in the thread. Was referring to the game, Xevious.