Might be a stupid question...

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I'm upgrading my mame from mameui64 144.u3 to mameui64 145.  I dont want to have to setup the button mapping on each game again so I copied my cfg folder from mame 144 and put it in 145 and it doesnt seem to work. Once I load a game the buttons are all default. I check the cfg file and it looks like it gets replaced with a default one. I tried setting the folder to read only to see if it would prevcent mame from replacing the file but it doesnt. Am I doing something wrong? If I have to set buttons for 200 games again im gonna lose my mind =) 

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after doing more testing it would appear that the cfg files from mame 144 are different than the ones created by 145. Here is the only difference I can see..

144
            <port tag="IN2" type="START1" mask="4" defvalue="4">

145
            <port tag=":IN2" type="START1" mask="4" defvalue="4">

so it looks like 145 needs a : for each input.... I guess im stuck redoing all the buttons again.. Im sure as hell not opening each cfg file and adding :'s all over the place

[spoot]

Looks like five minutes of work writing up a python program to add those.  7z/zip your cfg's and PM them to me if you want and you'll get updated ones back if I'm bored today.

PS: I'm bored.

[CpCaveman]

going by the fact that it took 30mins from your own post to your own answer i`m going to say YES it was a stupid question wait til you go from 145 to 146 you have to do a happy disco dance before each colon (i`m just joking btw clicked on your "might be a stupid question" topic guess that why you made it like that )

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Looks like five minutes of work writing up a python program to add those.  7z/zip your cfg's and PM them to me if you want and you'll get updated ones back if I'm bored today.

PS: I'm bored.

damn I wish I would have checked this when I got home instead of just starting to add ":"s to the cfg files. Im just about done now lol... just my luck! thanks for the help though!

[spoot]

Heh, np.