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Title: upgrading mame
Post by: postmortem on October 30, 2011, 10:28:37 pm

I want to upgrade my mame version from .138u3  to the newest version but i dont want to have to reconfigure all the buttons for each game and i dont want to lose my high scores on the games i have. is there any way to upgrade and keep these settings?   thanks

Title: Re: upgrading mame
Post by: Savannan on October 30, 2011, 10:32:43 pm

I believe the highscores are kept in the NVRAM folder, just copy it....cant remember off the top of my head for the settings thou....

Title: Re: upgrading mame
Post by: postmortem on October 30, 2011, 10:34:03 pm

awesome! good to know.. now to figure out how to save the button and game settings and i'll be set! thanks

Title: Re: upgrading mame
Post by: Donkbaca on October 31, 2011, 11:49:11 am

Did you make a ctrlr file?  You can just copy that over.  If you have not, look it up on the wiki

Title: Re: upgrading mame
Post by: notroubleclubber on October 31, 2011, 12:32:29 pm

What about the cfg files too

Title: Re: upgrading mame
Post by: Savannan on October 31, 2011, 12:38:59 pm

Just thinking about my post up above......

what does NVram stand for?

NON-VOLITILE   RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY?

meaning that it doesnt get erased when power is cut to it?????( Ie. CMOS BATTERY comes into play then)

is that correct?

Title: Re: upgrading mame
Post by: postmortem on October 31, 2011, 03:58:26 pm

the cfg files worked! thanks! Im about to add another 35 games to my arcade and update mame and i didnt want to have to set the buttons for all 200 games again... ive done this manually 3 times already lol. i cant believe i didnt realize you can copy the cfg folder lol. thanks for the help