I am new to this forum, and hope I'm not about to start by asking a duplicate question: in a nutshell, I've downloaded on my Linux system (Zenwalk 6.4, Xfce desktop environment) the latest MAME (version 0.139) and patched it (twice with patches 0.139u1 and 0.139u2 in that order).
After compilation I duly fetched the latest cheat.zip (version 0.139) and placed it into the same folder (namely $HOME/.mame) as the mame execulable; I thereafter ran mame -cc and edited the resulting mame.ini file so that
That's pretty much it! Now, no matter what rom I load (e.g. from $HOME with the mame -cheat .mame/roms/rastan.zip) I end up being unable to activate any cheat, in that hitting the TAB key after the game boots would result in no Cheat option showing at all....
rompath $HOME/.mame/roms
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inipath $HOME/.mame
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cheatpath $HOME/.mame
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bios 1
cheat 1
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Anybody with a clue out there? With many thanks in advance for your help -- and apologies in case of a too dumb question!