Emulator Cheats

Right all the games from 0.55 have now got cheats. The needed list is a smaller than the last 0.54 cheat file. There is scope for cheats to be found in the missing list though - it's just I haven't the time at the moment for basically games I don't like that much.

; [ Hand, The ]
thehand:0:500A:99:000:Infinite Credits
thehand:0:5082:01:001:Only One Dot to collect Now!
thehand:0:5087:06:000:Infinite Lives PL1
thehand:0:5088:06:000:Infinite Lives PL2

; [ Space Fortress ]
spacefrt:0:1D4F:02:000:Infinite Credits
spacefrt:0:1CAD:04:000:Infinite Lives PL1
spacefrt:0:1CAE:04:000:Infinite Lives PL2

; [ Sports Match ]
sprtmtch:0:7741:63:000:Infinite Credits
sprtmtch:0:7718:28:000:Infinite Game Time
sprtmtch:0:771E:FF:000:Infinite VS Time
sprtmtch:0:773E:09:000:Infinite Special Hands
sprtmtch:0:7711:00:001:Finish this Level Now!
sprtmtch:0:7735:03:000:Infinite Helps PL1
sprtmtch:0:7736:03:000:Infinite Helps PL2


;******************************************************************************
;* GAMES IN THE OFFICIAL MAME 0.55 BINARY WITH NO CHEATS *
;******************************************************************************
; cexplore [ Cassette: Explorer ] <--------------------------------[Reason 1]
; cprobowl [ Cassette: Pro Bowling ] <-----------------------------[Reason 1]
; cprosocc [ Cassette: Pro Soccer ] <------------------------------[Reason 3]
; emeralda [ Emeraldia (Japan) ] <---------------------------------[Reason 3]
; ginkun [ Ganbare Ginkun ] <------------------------------------[Reason 3]
; goldmedl [ Gold Medalist ] <-------------------------------------[Reason 1]
; gslgr94u [ Great Sluggers '94 ] <--------------------------------[Reason 3]
; housemn2 [ House Mannequin Roppongi Live hen (Japan) ] <---------[Reason 1]
; housemnq [ House Mannequin (Japan) ] <---------------------------[Reason 1]
; koshien [ Ah Eikou no Koshien (Japan) ] <-----------------------[Reason 3]
; krzybowl [ Krazy Bowl ] <---------------------------------------[Reason 12]
; medlanes [ Meadows Lanes ] <-------------------------------------[Reason 2]
; minivadr [ Minivader ] <-----------------------------------------[Reason 2]
; neckneck [ Neck-n-Neck ] <---------------------------------------[Reason 3]
; pettanp [ Pettan Pyuu (Japan) ] <-------------------------------[Reason 3]
; poitto [ Poitto! ] <-------------------------------------------[Reason 3]
; powrplay [ Power Play ] <----------------------------------------[Reason 3]
; quiztou [ Nettou! Gekitou! Quiztou!! (Japan) ] <----------------[Reason 1]
; recordbr [ Recordbreaker (World) ] <----------------------------[Reason 12]
; ripoff [ Rip Off ] <------------------------------------------[Reason 12]
; robotbwl [ Robot Bowl ] <----------------------------------------[Reason 2]
; scudhamm [ Scud Hammer ] <---------------------------------------[Reason 2]
; shufshot [ Shuffleshot ] <---------------------------------------[Reason 3]
; sokonuke [ Sokonuke Taisen Game (Japan) ] <----------------------[Reason 3]
; sotsugyo [ Sotsugyo Shousho ] <---------------------------------[Reason 12]
; sundance [ Sundance ] <------------------------------------------[Reason 1]
; wgp2 [ World Grand Prix 2 (Japan) ] <-----------------------[Reason 12]
; wsf [ World Soccer Finals ] <-------------------------------[Reason 3]

New hand would not know the reason
So I post here.

Reason1. The game has not yet been properly emulated by MAME or it crashes when
I try to play it . Some games which are broken still have cheats -
however, if it's NOT properly emulated and no good cheats could be found
then reason 1 will be quoted over all other reasons. I also use this reason
if I can't figure out the control method or it's too awkward for me to
waste time figuring out.

Reasion2. I don't know what cheats to find as the game is hard to understand and is
perhaps in a another tongue - eg Japanese. Or the the game doesn't appear
suitable for cheat finding.

Reason3. I haven't had chance to look at the game for one reason or another -
A GET OUT! I may have had a look at the game in the past but I can't
remember - I will use this reason in that cas too.

Reason4. The game has had no RAM areas set up to search in for cheats even with a
SCAN ALL AREAS! A lot of cinematronics games currently have this problem
as only 1 ROM area is defined! UPDATE 01 JUL 2001: With the latest cheat
engine it is now possible to find cheats for the cinematronics games so
you won't see as many reason 4 games anymore.

Reason5. The game was only recently fixed and I haven't had a chance to find any
cheats yet.

Reason6. I've got cheat(s) for the game but I haven't had chance to test them or do
the cheat description(s).

Reason7. I've had a quick look at this game and it seems suitable for cheat finding,
there's RAM set up - but even a simple search for an Infinite Lives cheat
didn't turn up any cheats after whittling down the locations.... These can
be taken as a challenge!!!

Reason8. The game was added in one of the last versions and I haven't had chance to
find any cheats yet. If there is no reason quoted, then it is for this
reason.

Reason9. The game was not in the last official releasable beta binary, some of these 'unofficial' games have cheats (Metal Slug X), but this reason is primarily
for games that are playable and are likely to make it to a beta binary
release soon. This reason will be rarely used!

Reason10. Although it is possible to find cheats for this game, unfortunately the cheats are not constant. IE The next time you load the game (or even reset it) the
cheat locations will have changed. This effects a LOT of games, occasionally it
is possible to find the odd cheat though as some locations maybe constant. This
dynamic memory location is quite prevalent in neo-geo fighter games - and there
maybe some cheats in the cheat file that don't work and this will be the most
likely cause. A new cheat type may possibly be required to fix this.
UPDATE: As it's now possible to poke ROM locations it is now possible to make
cheats to handle games that use dynamic RAM addressing. However, it require a
knowledge of assembler and use of the MAME debugger to find them - at the moment
I'm (Pugsy) the only one to produce ROM cheats and I will only be finding them
when I get time or I enjoy the game. So the likelihood of ROM cheats for NEO GEO
fighters is fairly low - as I'm sick of this type of game. But if I get enough
requests and I'm not too bored I will see what I can do.

Reason11. Nobody has submitted any cheats for this game and I am so sick and tired of this genre I can't motivate myself to find any cheats for this game. However, I
would expect it to be any easy game to find cheats for and you only have to look
at games of the same genre to find out which cheats can be found (eg. for baseball
games look at another baseball game).

Reason12. There are some cheats for this game but they are either Infinite Credits or some comment cheats - not enough to remove them from this section.

Thanks Pugsy for the list