Latest mame 0.127b no cheat when pressing tab

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finjo34
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Latest mame 0.127b no cheat when pressing tab

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I use the proper steps and has been able to cheat successfully with mame 0.126b, but the latest 0.127b mame don't show the cheat in the config when I press the tab button. what am I doing wrong ? Does anyone experience the similar problem, I perform the same procedure like I did with the earlier version, unzip the cheat.dat, edit the mame.ini file and set cheat line to 1. But, there's no cheat line in mame 0.127b config.
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Grab the latest cheat collection:
MAME 0.259 XML cheat collection (6 OCTOBER 2023) from http://www.mamecheat.co.uk or direct from:-
https://mega.nz/file/q4dHGZ6K#i-EUiqIjH ... KMz7hnbTfw (ZIP Archive 3.76MB)
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Post by carmel_andrews »

Just to correct something just incase people miss understood pugsy's original post

Not only do you have to unzip the zop file itself you also have to unzip the zip file in the zip file and call it 'cheat' within the same directory as the mame exe

easier way of doing it is open the downloaded cheat zip file with PA or Winzip and drag over the cheat zip file within the downloaded zip into the same directory as mame exe

Then back click on the extracted zip file and tell it to extract to it's own directory, called cheat, this directory should be in the same directory as mame exe

(the cheat thing will not work if you just unzip the downloaded cheat zip file, as the mame program needs to see the individual cheats)
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You do not need to extract the cheat.zip into a cheat folder, the cheat.zip in the same dir should work just fine. Yes, extracting it to a cheat folder will also work but you have a folder with over 7000 xml files in it (not a good thing). If it's the only way of making it work for you fine....but it would seem to indicate an issue with the MAME you are using.
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Grab the latest cheat collection:
MAME 0.259 XML cheat collection (6 OCTOBER 2023) from http://www.mamecheat.co.uk or direct from:-
https://mega.nz/file/q4dHGZ6K#i-EUiqIjH ... KMz7hnbTfw (ZIP Archive 3.76MB)
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