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Title: Detect cocktail mode from mame cfg?
Post by: arzoo on June 20, 2007, 08:21:02 pm

Does anyone know if it's possible to detect when a mame game has it's cocktail dip set? The cfg file lists dipswitch settings, but there's no indication what each dip is used for. I guess I could parse the mame source for each game and determine the cocktail dip mask, but I was hoping for an easier solution.

Title: Re: Detect cocktail mode from mame cfg?
Post by: u_rebelscum on June 21, 2007, 12:13:40 pm

Use ROMlister (http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/) to parse mame's listxml file.  Seach for "cocktail" and output to whichever format you want.

Title: Re: Detect cocktail mode from mame cfg?
Post by: NOP on June 21, 2007, 01:46:10 pm

with one caveat as mentioned in the wiki:
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Lists

There are some games with hidden cocktail modes!  There aren't any dipswitches so no utility is going to find them, but if you root around in some of the maintenance modes on some games, there are sometimes options for cocktail.  Pretty cool, but also a PITA to try and find them.  The wiki is there so we can list 'em as we find them.  (I haven't actually been looking)

-jeff!

Title: Re: Detect cocktail mode from mame cfg?
Post by: arzoo on June 22, 2007, 01:42:27 pm

Thanks for the help!

Title: Re: Detect cocktail mode from mame cfg?
Post by: squirrellydw on June 22, 2007, 05:40:24 pm

Quote from: arzoo on June 22, 2007, 01:42:27 pm

Thanks for the help!

is this a good thing? :)