permanently enabling cheats in mame

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majorspawn
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permanently enabling cheats in mame

Post by majorspawn »

Hi Guys,

is there a way to permanently enable cheats in a particular game in mame within the cheat xml.

For example:

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>

modify the above to always have the boss hack enabled as above?

thanks in advance
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Re: permanently enabling cheats in mame

Post by rytz »

I think what you want is the ability to auto-start a cheat when MAME starts?

If so, to my knowledge, that functionality is not in the cheat engine (yet).
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Re: permanently enabling cheats in mame

Post by Pugsy »

No indeed, auto-enabling of cheats hasn't existed in MAME for years and the facility is unlikely to be reappear any time soon.
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Re: permanently enabling cheats in mame

Post by majorspawn »

thanks very much for confirming. Just wanted to know the answer officially
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Re: permanently enabling cheats in mame

Post by isamu »

I was wondering the same thing so thanks Pugsy for confirming that. I hope this gets another look soon
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