Emulator Cheats

Greetings! It’s my understanding that for MAME 2003 only the cheat.dat files will work. So, when I press the Tab key when playing Tempest, for example, running on MAME 2003, it does show a list of cheats, just not some that I’m looking for.

Short of trying to run it on a newer MAME version (not sure if MAME 2010 supports the newer cheat.7z), is there a way to manually enter a desired cheat in the config files?

For example, the MAME 2003 cheats for Tempest don’t include invincibility or start at any level.

Thanks!

The XML cheat engine came about in 2009, so 2010 MAME will work fine with cheat.7z cheats.

You can add cheats to cheat.dat quite simply, it's just a text file.