There's a core option to force the menu on.

These configs will not be defaulted by reinstalling the emulator. These will be stored in the default.cfg and game.cfg files. These should be located in a "mame2003/cfg/" directory in the location you load your mame roms from.

@mahoneyt944 good question, I think it is 2003 actually: will try 2003+ and report back. Thanks a lot

@mahoneyt944 actually some games in mame2003 support analog! eg afterburner, outun. but yes, to use analog in games that have native digital controls, you need to use the retroarch 'analog to digital' option (although i would instead recommend setting via the configuration editor as RGUI meddling can be dangerous).

but note that if you enable it globally for the lr-mame2003, you will lose analog controls in natively analog games (although that's only a handful).

mark I will look into adding mapping analog controls into mame2003-plus properly when I get the time. It doesn't look that bad to do its just setup a little differently from normal buttons nothing major though