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Title: Any win32 command-line MAME ports that support MAMEINFO (eg. commads.dat)?
Post by: sofakng on January 13, 2005, 05:34:45 pm

I know of two Win32 (MAME32) based ports of MAME that support MAMEINFO and commands.dat, but I'm wondering if any Win32 command-line versions of MAME ports exist that support this.

Does anybody know?

Title: Re: Any win32 command-line MAME ports that support MAMEINFO (eg. commads.dat)?
Post by: Howard_Casto on January 13, 2005, 05:56:44 pm

I don't understand the question. 

mameinfo is part of mame....  in the tab menu it pops up assuming you have the mameinfo.dat properly installed.

command.dat is external and not a part of official mame.  To my knowledge only mame plus supports it (mame32 plus also comes with a command line version)

Title: Re: Any win32 command-line MAME ports that support MAMEINFO (eg. commads.dat)?
Post by: sofakng on January 13, 2005, 06:44:33 pm

Oh, I must be a bit confused then... I thought MAMEINFO was the name of the "extra" and then commands.dat worked in conjunction with it.

According to the commands.dat homepage, only Mame32 Plus and Mame32FX includes support for it, but if Mame32 Plus has a command-line version then it will work exactly like regular MAME, right?

Now if Mame32 Plus had support for that "press pause and see the controls" feature... (somebody here wrote it, I forgot the name of it and the person... sorry!)

Title: Re: Any win32 command-line MAME ports that support MAMEINFO (eg. commads.dat)?
Post by: Howard_Casto on January 13, 2005, 10:17:07 pm

Commands.dat is the ghetto mame32 style fighter moves that are displayed in mame32plus. 

I beleive you are thinking of the controls.dat, the project that sirp and myself started.  Budda releases a special hacked version of mame that'll interface mame with my cp viewer, but that's it.

Title: Re: Any win32 command-line MAME ports that support MAMEINFO (eg. commads.dat)?
Post by: sofakng on January 13, 2005, 10:22:37 pm

Actually, you're right... I was thinking of your controls.dat project.  IIRC, your controls.dat project was about creating a control panel layout (eg. drawing one on-screen that looked just like your *real* control panel) and then the controls.dat file would display the game controls mapped on top of the control panel.

Unless I'm mistaken, commands.dat is slightly different.  Commands.dat lists all of the moves for each character in various fighting games.  Your controls.dat is for more general games that only have one set of "moves", right?

Title: Re: Any win32 command-line MAME ports that support MAMEINFO (eg. commads.dat)?
Post by: Howard_Casto on January 13, 2005, 11:01:40 pm

yeah your right

for the record we've talked to the command.dat guys and eventually the two may be merged in some way

that's Waaaaaay down the road though