Emulator Cheats

Posted: **Fri Jun 02, 2006 4:52 pm**

On 0.106u3, you can't choose a file except "cheat.dat". Because "-cheat_file" option always picks up "cheat.dat" only and other filenames are ignored.

For example :

Put cheat.dat, cheat2.dat and cheat3.dat in the same MAME directory.
Start with "mame -cheat_file cheat2.dat;cheat3.dat".
MAME never loads cheat2.dat and cheat3.dat but cheat.dat is loaded instead.

I have already posted the above problem to MAME Testers.
My cheat database is using other filename. So it's very serious issue for me.

Posted: **Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:39 pm**

Confirmed, fix coming in a few minutes.

Posted: **Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:56 pm**

Replace the beginning of LoadCheatDatabase (line 8672) with:

Code: Select all

static void LoadCheatDatabase(void)
{
	char	buf[4096];
	const char	* inTraverse;
	char	* outTraverse;
	char	* mainTraverse;
	int		first = 1;
	char	data;

	inTraverse = options_get_string("cheat_file", 0);
	if(!inTraverse)
		inTraverse = "cheat.dat";

	outTraverse = buf;
	mainTraverse = mainDatabaseName;

	buf[0] = 0;

Posted: **Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:02 pm**

Thanks. I confirmed the modified cheat_file option on recompiled MAME 0.106u3.
Though we need to add #include "options.h" into cheat.c.

Emulator Cheats

Cheat_file option problem on 0.106u3

Cheat_file option problem on 0.106u3