Searching for cheats in MESS

This forum is for posting cheats for any non-arcade game in M.A.M.E. ( aka the M.E.S.S. games ) including any softwarelist game. Requests will be fulfilled here....but please keep the requests to the requests forum.
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Searching for cheats in MESS

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Evening all. Tried this on the mess board and didn't see anything.

You rock Pugsy BTW.

Can someone tell me if there is a way to lok for cheats a la mame in mess? I've got the latest windows version and am looking for some cheats for classic apple2 games.
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Other than setting making sure "cheats 1" is in the mess.ini file the only other thing is probably that you need to change "newui 1" to "newui 0" in the same ini file. The last time I played with MESS cheats there were only cheat menus in the old mamelike ui.

The other thing was that there were (and still are?) issues with crc32s on the cheat line. Without the cheat engine saving the crc32 of the image with the cheat, cheat files without these crc32 cheat fields are not feasible.
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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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I tried to bring up that cheat menu in mess but can't. I know that you hit tab but had no luck. Am I doing something wrong? I set the INI files like you said
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Post by Heihachi_73 »

You need to hit Scroll Lock to access the tab menu on emulated computers. You can still use the computer in this mode but keys like P or Esc might do annoying things!

As per my MESS forum post there's no official cheat.dat, but I'm sure one will be made one day, even if it's in 10 years time!
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Geat. I have a logitech keyboard without the scroll lock key. Is it possible to remap it to something, anything else? Or is there a way to enable scroll lock with the keyboard?
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Ok, I got a nifty program that allows me to activate the scroll lock. Now, I activate it but tab does nothing. I can't bring up the top menu either.
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Are you 100% sure you are running with the oldui rather than the newui? Is this a windows PC?
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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 kruuth »

It is a windows PC. Oldui?
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