3D arcade front end question - adding command line configs

[dgrams2000]

I just started working with 3D Arcade front end.
Trying to get Mame stuff configured first before going hog wild.

I use a command line version of mame and am having problems figuring out where to put my commands.
On the config screen, I see a box that says that it would be for command line options, but the typical -nohwstretch and -scanlines commands dont seem to take (or even want to save) here.

Do I have to enter them in some kind of strange format?  I started looking at the documentation, but am not understanding what it is telling me for the configuration of the command line stuff.

Can anyone help?

[kahlid74]

Specifically what front end are you using?  It would help to know that as each front ends handles the hand off to the executable differently.  Also, did you make sure your mame is the latest and greatest?  Some front ends access Mame in ways that make older versions upset (example would be Hyperspin and AHK Launch).

[dgrams2000]

Using "3D Arcade" as the front end.
Using an old version of Mame: .94

Mame .94 does the command line stuff I need it to do at a dos prompt... just trying to figure out the way to enter in the commands in the setup of 3D Arcade.

It does some strange things in the cfg files for adding the extra commands

[kahlid74]

I'm pretty sure I remember that in addition to passing commands via the command line you could also add them to the MAME.ini file or to each individual games .ini file.  Obviously adding them to all of the games ini files would be crazy, but if you are passing those commands to every game you should just be able to add them to the mame.ini and be done with it.

I'm not super familiar with 3D arcade, but if you know for certain that your version of MAME supports those commands I would reach out to the developer of 3D arcade or post in the software forum and see if anyone else has an idea.