Question about Individual Rom CFG files...

[JamesS]

So, using Mamewah, I started Robotron and set up the player 2 Joy to be the firing joystick.

Well I get out, and back in and I have to reset those settings.  Should this not save in an individual cfg file, or is there something else I should do?

[cdbrown]

Did you check that a robotron.cfg file was created in mame\cfg folder?
Is the cfg folder set in mame.ini like
cfg_directory           cfg

Does it only happen to Robotron or other games as well?

[Setabs]

make sure you are not pausing the gaming when you use  mame to edit the button config's.  I did this in MK and it took me about six trys before I figured out you can't have mame paused when changing the controls.  And also when you upgrade mame and the roms later on it will reset the buttons.

[Nightmare03]

This happend to me too... I dont know why either, so i edited a config file myself for the controls, but some of it was slightly off so i tried using mame again and it works now

[Jakobud]

You guys need to read the directions for the ctrlr files in Mame.  These will totally solve all your problems regarding this.

[Howard_Casto]

yeah cfg files are lame and unreliable.  Ctrlr files always work well because they are external and can't be altered accidentally by mame.

[JamesS]

Thanks everyone.  I will look into the CTRLR files.

Thanks again.

[JRoz]

Sorry to bring this back from the dead but i'm having issues with my video settings.  I'm running Mala with Mame and running it on a cocktail cabinet.  I'm able to go into Video Settings and change the screen to Cocktail, but the setting automatically removes itself every 3rd time.  So for example I say to cocktail, return to game and play.  I exit out normally and go back into the game and its still in cocktail.  When I exit out normally again, the game boots and the video setting resets back to the standard horizontal setting.  Anyone know what I can do?  I copied and pasted the cocktail command in the CFG file and hit save, and everytime it shows it in there correctly, when I go in the third time and its reset, the CFG file also deletes the code.  I don't get it!

[Gray_Area]

Sorry to bring this back from the dead but i'm having issues with my video settings.  I'm running Mala with Mame and running it on a cocktail cabinet.  I'm able to go into Video Settings and change the screen to Cocktail, but the setting automatically removes itself every 3rd time.  So for example I say to cocktail, return to game and play.  I exit out normally and go back into the game and its still in cocktail.  When I exit out normally again, the game boots and the video setting resets back to the standard horizontal setting.  Anyone know what I can do?  I copied and pasted the cocktail command in the CFG file and hit save, and everytime it shows it in there correctly, when I go in the third time and its reset, the CFG file also deletes the code.  I don't get it!

I suggest asking at MAMEWorld. It might be a bug.