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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: c0dehunter on June 23, 2012, 03:36:50 am

Title: CHEATS: DAT File or CHEATS.ZIP? (also where?)
Post by: c0dehunter on June 23, 2012, 03:36:50 am

Hello all,
Where do I need to place the cheat file? Older MAME accepted cheats in a folder called cheats. The newer build have support for a XML (in zipped format, called cheats.zip) placed in the same folder where the mame executable is residing. I tried all these, and I still don't see the cheats menu when I press TAB inside a game)

Any help would be appreciated.

Title: Re: CHEATS: DAT File or CHEATS.ZIP? (also where?)
Post by: Ansa89 on June 23, 2012, 03:54:31 am

Into mame.ini:

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cheatpath                 path/to/somewhere
cheat                     1
Then you can unpack the zipped cheats into that path.

Title: Re: CHEATS: DAT File or CHEATS.ZIP? (also where?)
Post by: c0dehunter on June 23, 2012, 12:34:39 pm

The author of the cheats, had specifically advised against unzipping the cheats.zip.

Title: Re: CHEATS: DAT File or CHEATS.ZIP? (also where?)
Post by: Ansa89 on June 23, 2012, 01:08:21 pm

Ok, instead "unpack" say "copy".

Title: Re: CHEATS: DAT File or CHEATS.ZIP? (also where?)
Post by: c0dehunter on June 23, 2012, 05:20:27 pm

Thanks, in my mame.ini, cheat was set to "0": I changed it to "1" and it works now! (I have cheats.zip in the root folder of my groovymame folder)