Emulator Cheats

Oh, you're lurking? If you don't have much time to reply, I just wanted to be sure you realized that the additional two lines are required for "Invincibility". I have tested this. I hope you will include them.

Thanks.

You were just in the MAME Cheat Request forum. This goes there.

Enable cheats in mameui from the menu: Options->Default Game Options->Miscellaneous tab->check "Enable game cheats" Use cheat0127u3_14_NOV_2008_V10.zip (1,320,615 bytes). Unzip it and copy the cheat.zip to your mameui32 folder. That's all. The third option from the bottom when you hit tab ...

There are 4 ways to die in Donkey Kong, not counting the timer. The two you haven't patched only occur on elevators. Walking on the floor kills you, even if you survive the fall, and hitting your head on the bottom of an elevator will kill you. Have you ever hit the bottom corner of an elevator whil...

I said sdlmame, because I'm on Linux. Unfortunately, I can get to the edit menu, but when I try to set an activation key, the game hangs. (0.125). It must be a problem unique to sdlmame. If I want it badly enough I'll try to add it to the txt file with an editor.

As reported by Shima Pong - who is as wise as he is humble - the current invincibility cheat makes you die when you turn it off. I also notice that you can't grab the hammer, and being invincible with the hammer is really fun! <cheat desc="Invincibility"> <script state="on"> <act...

The option the define a default state was removed in 127u3. Now the default state for all options is "off". I don't know if they would consider putting it back. I doubt they'd want something like that to get into the distributed cheat.zip. You could have people playing the wrong version of...

where can i asign a key for a cheat (the activation key !) I don't think you can. I suggest you recompile with the old cheat.c Have you heard if the activation key feature will be added? I've read up on the demise of the last engine, and one point that bothered me was that if it was useful to the d...

Ever notice that the Donkey Kong cheat to finish the current screen only works on Rivets? It's called "Finish sub-level 4 Now!", because Rivets is the 4th type of screen, but it's the 6th on a full level (Barrels, Factory, Barrels, Elevators, Barrels, Rivets) So, you can can only skip one ...