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Running CHD games
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Scoobie on May 19, 2004, 03:38:37 pm ---I appreciate everyone's help on this. With that said, I am now considering switching from Mame32 to NoNameMame now that the CPU overclocking has been added and I still can't find this option (pressing F2) in any of the games.
This might not be a good idea since I don't understand code (I'd like to try).
Does anyone know if there is thread or tutorial on setting up NoNameMame?
Thanks again everyone!
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See the thread I linked to in reply #9 above. And it's the tilde menu, not the F2 key, and you have to have -cheat enabled, and then you have to manually type some numbers in the cheat.dat file, and do some decimal-hexadecimal conversions, and . . . read the other thread.
Scoobie:
Well, I guess I hit a nerve. As I mentioned before, I don't understand a lot of the code talk that takes place here, i.e. "decimal-hexadecimal conversions".
I've now been able to get into the overclocking section, but without understanding how/where to "manually type some numbers in the cheat.dat file" I'll simply enjoy the classic games that don't require knowledge of tweaking what the developers have done.
Thanks to Tiger-Heli and all of you for your help and patience with another newbie!
dema:
I really like the way this KI plays on the U64 emulator. I was wondering if it's a stable program, because when I click the enter key it shows my XP desktop and if I double click it it shuts it down. Also can it run from Mamewah?
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Scoobie on May 19, 2004, 08:35:01 pm ---Well, I guess I hit a nerve. As I mentioned before, I don't understand a lot of the code talk that takes place here, i.e. "decimal-hexadecimal conversions".
I've now been able to get into the overclocking section, but without understanding how/where to "manually type some numbers in the cheat.dat file" I'll simply enjoy the classic games that don't require knowledge of tweaking what the developers have done.
Thanks to Tiger-Heli and all of you for your help and patience with another newbie!
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You didn't really hit a nerve - you just probably got in a little over your head - not that you can't learn. I didn't understand this until last week.
Gotta crawl a little before you can run is all - no offense, but you're running MAME32 and asking how to run underclock CPU's at startup from a custom cheat.dat file.
I recommend you first run commandline mame, just to get familiar with the options and running with commandline switches, then look at the mame source, and some of the custom fixes others have written then go from there.
the numbers to plug in aren't complicated, but getting them can be -
for example, I didn't want to go to the faster underclock for 40 seconds of gametime, but the timer is in milliseconds in hexadecimal -
so 40 seconds is 40,0000 milliseconds in decimal. Open the Windows calculator, select view-scientific, type in 40000 and click HEX. The display changes to 9C40 and that's where that value comes from in the other thread. Of course other games might require longer or shorter times.
Scoobie:
You're right about getting in over my head. I'm thinking about trying a command line version, but am currently planning my CP redo. I hope to change all the things I hate about my first CP.
BTW, even though games like Cruisin' run okay when overclocked, I'll be waiting for the 4 or 5 Ghz machines to play the newer games properly. There is just too much lost when overclocking.