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Title: Mame not saving its button configuration
Post by: equlizer on September 21, 2014, 10:09:18 pm

After mapping buttons in mame and esc to play a game, it does not save the settings.  When i esc mame and come back the settings i set are gone.  Anyway to fix this?

win7 64, mame64, hyperspin

Title: Re: Mame not saving its button configuration
Post by: thatpurplestuff on September 21, 2014, 10:34:59 pm

I believe it has to do with the way Hyperlaunch is closing MAME... MAME saves its settings when it closes normally, so when Hyperspin force closes it any changes to the settings are lost.

You've got a couple options... first would be to load MAME outside of Hyperspin, change the settings you want, then close MAME.

Second would be to change the HyperHQ settings so that MAME is launched normally without using Hyperlaunch... that will make it so when you push ESC, MAME will be quitting on its own as opposed to Hyperlaunch force closing it and losing the settings.

There are also most likely some changes that you can make within Hyperlaunch (mainly changing it so MAME closes by itself) but I'm not super familiar with changing options within Hyperlaunch.

Title: Re: Mame not saving its button configuration
Post by: equlizer on September 23, 2014, 01:24:34 am

Fixed that!

now when i go to save i will press the button to save and i get " error failed to save file" or failed to open file.  It doesnt even give me the option to push a button to save too.

Title: Re: Mame not saving its button configuration
Post by: lordnacho on September 24, 2014, 09:28:40 am

Not sure, but check the cfg file isn't readonly?