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help... what am i doing(or did) wrong

Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 3:23 pm
by mrmusic
Hi ,

I downloaded the latest cheat file for mameui 142 and put it the mame executable folder. It's still zip( folder with zipper icon) . I have enabled cheats in BOTH properties sections, but the cheats still doesn't work when i hit the tab button to activate... why???

Re: help... what am i doing(or did) wrong

Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 5:07 pm
by Pugsy
Have you definitely extracted cheat.zip from cheat0142.zip?

If you open the zip file do you see thousands of XML files or just three files (!README_FIRST!!.txt, cheat.txt & cheat.zip). If it's the later make sure you copy the cheat.zip file to your MAME directory.