SDLMAME?

FoulMouth · Post by **FoulMouth** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:06 am

Can I use the cheat.dat on this MAME? I load it, and for every game it says cheats not found. It is v.117.

Post by **Pugsy** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:04 am

I would imagine so.....have you read the cheat file faqs and docs? The UNZIPPED cheat.dat file must be in the same dir as the mame executable.

I've changed your username btw, as picking a swear word as your username is very immature.

FoulMouth · Post by **FoulMouth** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:32 am

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend anyone. It was named after that anime/game.

Anyways, yes I am installing it correctly, unzipped, and the ini file refers to it. I know it's at least installed because if it wasn't, it would say 'no cheat database found' or something to that effect. It doesn't say that, just that 'there are no cheats for this game', I can't figure it out. I guess it's something odd with SDLMAME. And also, this is recent because an old cheat file used to work, but I think the 116 versions is when this started - or whenever some big change in the format happened made it incompatible with this particular MAME.

Post by **Pugsy** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:26 am

Just compiled the win32 version of sdlmame and it works fine with the last cheatfile. This of course proves nothing if you are not running the win32 version, Things to try:

1. Try using the 0.114 cheat file release

2. Make a small cheat.dat and copy just the cheats you want into that - does that work?

If either 1 or 2 works then it's likely there some sort of issue on non-windows machines...maybe it's just a single line? I don't believe it's got anything to do with the line endings but you could always try swapping them to unix and then back to DOS. Otherwise the problem must lie somewhere with the cheat.c file on non-windows pcs.....

FoulMouth · Post by **FoulMouth** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:34 pm

I don't believe it uses a different cheat.c. 114 did indeed work. I looked at the files and didn't find much difference except for one thing. The new one uses CRLF with LF line terminators while the old one, the one that's working uses only CRLF line terminators. I'm not sure if that is the issue but it's all I could find.

FoulMouth · Post by **FoulMouth** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:36 pm

Scratch that. I converted it and it didn't make a difference.

Post by **Pugsy** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:45 am

All I can think is that there's a single line somewhere that's causing issues with non-windows sdlmame compiles. I only run windows so the only way to find out which line is to copy and paste parts of the cheat file into a new file an keep trying. The best method would be to use a half split method...copy half of the cheat file into a new cheat file and see if it works, if it does copy half of the remaining cheat file in if it doesn't cut the cheat file in half again...repeat lots of times

Arbee · Post by **Arbee** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:31 am

Hi. The problem is that the "coolmini" entries contain 2 "ANSI" graphics characters (hex 0xb0). On Windows this is OK because the system default for text files is the current codepage, which is normally ANSI-compatible. Other systems now assume text files are UTF-8, so things blow up when it hits those.

The two bad lines are:
:coolmini:00010000:0DDF8D:00000001:FFFFFFFF:Easiest:No of hamburger
ingredients

:coolmini:00010000:0DDFF1:00000001:FFFFFFFF:Easiest:No of hamburger ingredients

The "o" in "No" is the bad character in both cases.

Cheers,
Arbee

Post by **Pugsy** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:47 am

Ooops and thanks. I've updated the cheat files on the web page and I'll keep an eye out for future c*ck ups.

RedBeam · Post by **RedBeam** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:23 pm

SORRY EVERYBODY...

My italian keyboard is cursed or I am almost IDIOT