Permanently enable specific cheats in MAME

[majorspawn]

Hi Guys,

I raised this question to a few people in various forums and no one seems to know the answer. Is it possible at all to permanently enable a cheat in the .xml file when the game launches in MAME. For example in kof95.xml

<cheat desc="Enable hidden characters"> <comment>Adds the extra two hidden characters to the selection screen</comment>
<script state="run">
<action>maincpu.pb@10E79A=01</action>
</script>
</cheat>

can the above be changed etc to always have the boss code enabled?

thanks in advance..

[Pugsy]

No, it's known as there "pre-enabling" and there is currently no way of pre-enabling cheats in the XML cheat engine. It was possible with the cheat.dat format however it was always considered a hack and it's unlikely to make it into the XML cheat engine anytime soon.