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Title: Editing MAME.CFG by hand
Post by: Texasmame on September 29, 2011, 09:47:58 pm

Holy crap.  I can't get it to display properly.  I've tried:

RTF
TXT
DOC
XML
XLS

Extensions.  How can you view/edit this file by hand?

NOTE:  THIS IS WITH MAME32 .78

Title: Re: Editing MAME.CFG by hand
Post by: equlizer on September 29, 2011, 09:59:52 pm

 notepad should suffice.  Its what ive always used.

Title: Re: Editing MAME.CFG by hand
Post by: Texasmame on September 29, 2011, 11:01:09 pm

Yeah, works for a newer version of those files, but not for the MAME32 .78.  I need to use that version, too, since I've got it on an ancient rig.

PII 450.

 :applaud:

Title: Re: Editing MAME.CFG by hand
Post by: kustcom on September 30, 2011, 04:59:03 am

download notepadd++
webdevs choice, and opens any and every file without converting to windows end-of-line endings as notepad does with some linux files.
or if you cbf, use wordpad (it doesn't convert files either, and handles linux files fine).

Nevermind, didn't read last post... Maybe give it a go anyway.

Title: Re: Editing MAME.CFG by hand
Post by: newmanfamilyvlogs on September 30, 2011, 05:54:54 am

isn't it suppose to be mame.ini? Maybe it was different in the older version.

Do you have Windows set to display the extension of known file types? You might have accidentally named it something like "mame.cfg.txt", in which case mame won't see it.

I'll second Notepad++, but Notepad.exe is largely unchanged since Win95. The only change I'm aware of in recent years is the ability to open a file larger than 64k (the original versions would give you an error the file is too big).

Title: Re: Editing MAME.CFG by hand
Post by: Thenasty on September 30, 2011, 08:54:11 am

back in the old days, MAME.CFG is not standard text file.

Title: Re: Editing MAME.CFG by hand
Post by: kustcom on September 30, 2011, 10:16:50 am

I have a large dislike of MS Notepad, because if you open a file that has the typical linux end-of-line markers /n it converts them to windows end-of-line markers /r.

Title: Re: Editing MAME.CFG by hand
Post by: Gray_Area on October 01, 2011, 11:53:30 pm

Why would you want to do this anyways?

Title: Re: Editing MAME.CFG by hand
Post by: Texasmame on October 02, 2011, 03:54:33 pm

Still dunno how to access it but no longer need to.  Thx!