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Items that you can clear out of MAME folders to "refresh" everything
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markronz:
Long story short... I copied my MAME folder onto a friend's computer. All the games still load and all of that, but for some games the keypresses are acting strange. I haven't gone over to his house just yet to nail down a specific description as to what it occurring. At this point I am just looking for an answer to one question. Since his PC is different than mine, and we did a direct copy of my MAME folder, what folders can we empty out to ensure that everything loads "cleanly", as if for the first time? Like, for example, I know that I can clean out the CFG folder to get rid of all the custom CFG files that I've generated. I would assume all the files in the SAV folder could be deleted as well. What other folders should I empty out? I thought someone told me the NVRAM folder, but I can't remember for sure. Also if there are any others I should empty?
newmanfamilyvlogs:
You probably want to delete everything but the rom folder, copy in your mame executable, then run it from a commandline with -cc to generate a new clean config and go from there.
Hoopz:
If its a Windows PC, the folders may be set as read-only too. That happens sometimes when copying folders to a Windows machine. You may check that too.
boardjunkie:
Anytime I've ever did a direct copy to a stick drive and dropped it onto a different machine, I never had any problems. In fact, all the settings were back at default values.
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