what prog do i use to read/edit .cfg files?!?

[jammadave]

subject line sez it all =0)  need to fiddle with some cfg files for project:starwars.  

project:SW has landed, played it in my gameroom tonight, once the rom is running it's perfection but currently running mame32 with no frontend, must remedy this situation if i want it to menu between SW and ESB.

[JustMichael]

Have you tried Edit or Notepad?

[x-wing]

Have you tried Edit or Notepad?

Heh, have you?  mame's .cfg files (which he's obviously talking about) aren't readable with a text editor like notepad or edit.

[u_rebelscum]

The .cfg files are not a standard size or format.  You can look at them with a hex editor, but each game pretty much has it's own layout.  The layout depends on the type of input (joystick/spinner/trackball/analog joystick) used, the # of joysticks/spinners/trackballs in the game, the # of buttons, # of players, and order they are listed in the game's driver.

I think all the starwars games have the same .cfg file layout (same driver?), but different than StreetFighterII (different type of joystick, different # joysticks, different # buttons, different # of players).  Since you are interested in one game's .cfg file, you can: make one change in mame, copy and rename the .cfg file, and compare in a hex editor.  Repeat.  Time consuming, I know:  was doing that myself with SuperSprint a while ago.  (used textPad's hex reader, but there's much better hex editors out there I'm sure.)

[jammadave]

however, in this case i'm actually talking about mame.cfg, glaunch.cfg, et cetera.  not the game configs themselves =0)

[Jakobud]

then in that case just use notepad or wordpad

Jakobud