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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: mr_doles on April 19, 2009, 02:54:29 pm
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For the past 3 days I have been trying to get the cheats working on my Mame machine. I have read every article here, the mamecheat website and googled the heck out of it. I am missing something but I can't figure it out. :banghead:
I have the cheat.zip (for use with .130u2 which is the newest one out there) in the correct spot. The mame.ini has been modified correctly. When I run a game (that I did verify has a cheat in the xml file) I get error parsing cheat expression "maincpu.pb@xxxxxx=xx (the x's change per game). I know Mame sees the xml as the maincpu.pb is listed in the action xml node in the xml file.
The only thing that I can think is that I need to have a cheat.zip designed for .128 and not .130u2. If that is the case I find no mention of one existing.
Please tell me I am doing something simple wrong here.
EDIT: If it matters I am running version .128 with the hiscore diff applied.
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try going into the mame.ini and seeing if it on should be a 1 not 0
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try going into the mame.ini and seeing if it on should be a 1 not 0
Yes it is set to 1 in the mame.ini file. It has to be set up correctly because Mame does read the xml file I keep getting the parse error on all the games.
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than i have no clue maybe try another version of Mame, Mame plus works good
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maybe try another version of Mame
Yeah I got this one working the way I want it too (except for the cheat part), really don't want to setup everything again just for that. Anyone else got any suggestions? Was there a cheat.zip for .128? Is anyone using .128 with the cheats turned on?
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From www.mamecheat.co.uk
The 0.130u2 XML cheat collection won't work with MAME 0.128, there was a major change in 0.129u5 which is what you are seeing.
You should upgrade to 0.130u4.
Don't want to upgrade as it will break some of my games so I guess I don't get to use this then. :hissy: