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Andymac1990:

Hi, I recently built a MAME arcade machine and am really loving the experience. Very nice work all of you. I play it all the time with my buddies and its a blast because we are so competitive over the high score. We are high score fanatics. So there is one major problem I've run into and it's the fact that 80% of the games that we play has no way of limiting the amount of times you continue. For example Galaga, if you put in 5 credits, play the game, and then lose. The games starts over and now you have 4 credits. This is ideal. But Most games as in Image Fight, you put in 5 credits and when you die you can keep continuing and keep adding credits and playing forever. It also takes the fun out of the game for me, at least, because I know that I can never lose. This also takes away the competition because the honesty policy is gone when we are this hardcore. I know that some games have dip switch settings that can be set to not allow continuing but they are rare. Does anybody share my frustration or have a SOLUTION?

 I don't know how hard it would be to add a credit Limit or Cap that can be set per game and in general (to all games). Maybe just something like this:

- if (player) has pressed the button mapped to credits X times
- temporarily unmap the credit button to none
- and then remap it on soft reset, exit, or load new rom. something like that.

Please Help. Thanks a 1,000,000!

kagaden:

Not sure if there's a software way to do it... but I'm thinking... perhaps use tokens for credits? At least then you can physically restrict them somehow.

dmworking247:

I asked this very same question a few years ago on another forum, because I tire of adding credits or handing out tokens or coins, and the 'honesty system' doesnt work with my young kids.

A kind member wrote some software which basically limits the number of times the credit key (configurable) can be pressed before a reset key (configurable - lets say its ESC) s pressed.

So for example you set it to 5 credits, with the reset key being 'ESC'. You can add up to 5 credits, and then the 'credit key' becomes disabled (the OS doesn't recognize the keypress until its reset). When you quit out of MAME (ESC) and re-enter a new game, you can enter your 5 credits again.

I'll dig up my PMs on the other board and contact the member, as I really should have his permission before I distribute the software.

Andymac1990:

Yes please do that is [exactly] what I need. I also emailed the mame dev team about it and if I hear from them Ill get back post it here.

Kajoq:

Andy, on 90% of games your score resets when you continue anyways so they might get a little further, but their score isn't going to be any better

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