Issue When Enabling Cheats In Mame - Please Help

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Issue When Enabling Cheats In Mame - Please Help

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I am running MAME 0.79

My cheat.dat file is not showing the cheat database ingame. I placed it in
the same directory as my mame executable. I can enable cheats in the game, but when I got to enable\disable cheat, it says "cheat database not found".

I have tried the latest cheat.dat file, the 0.69 version, and the 0.81 version. They are all doing the same thing.

Any ideas?


Thanks
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Gaius_4
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Post by Gaius_4 »

MAME is up to 110. Have you tried using the latest cheat.dat with that version?
As always, your patients is appreciated. :cool:
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Post by Heihachi_73 »

Make sure it isn't still in the zip file. The latest cheat.dat works perfectly with my old 0.83 build, except for the changed ROMs, but I only use it to run Tekken 3 anyway, since it's still broken two years later.
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Post by ShimaPong »

Is default database name in mame.ini "cheat.dat" ? Or have you renamed the database ?

But basically posting a code or asking about the cheat engine are predicate on later MAME and database.
Especially recent MAME has updated the cheat engine which adds new function and changes old one.
So we may be unable to support older version.

BTW, we should stop this thread because here is for POSTING CHEAT CODE.
And worse than all, Heihachi_73 starts to talk about Tekken again !
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Post by Pugsy »

Moving topic and locking it...I replied to the same question by email(s) (the same person me thinks).

This sorted it:-

mame -createconfig

this will make a mame.ini file, check this line is in there:-

cheat_file cheat.dat

and

cheat 1
Pugsy

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Post by hero_in_disguise »

i also have this problem and do not understand how to fix it, i am a metal slug fan and i would love to have a bunch of firepower
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