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Title: Question about config files in mame
Post by: iscariot on February 26, 2013, 03:00:58 pm

I was looking at kind of a strange mame release and I opened the default.cfg and the only thing that I can make out is MAMEDEF and the rest is gibberish.  Is this something new?  I thought the cfg files were all text.

Title: Re: Question about config files in mame
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 26, 2013, 05:10:30 pm

Cfg files weren't always readable in mame.  They used to be binary files. 

It sounds like you are using a version of mame that's so old the ctrlr file system hadn't been implemented yet. 

Title: Re: Question about config files in mame
Post by: iscariot on February 26, 2013, 05:14:50 pm

You might be right....in fact I would wager that you are.  Any way to read those files?

Title: Re: Question about config files in mame
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 26, 2013, 05:45:58 pm

Nope.