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jelwell:
I didn't address the single key cheat button in my original reply because the last time I setup my cabinet the version of MAME I was using supported pressing a single button and displaying ONLY the cheat portion of the menu with no way to get into the rest of the menu system. Not sure when this was removed.

I can see in my old default.cfg


--- Quote ---         <port type="UI_CHEAT">
            <defseq type="standard">KEYCODE_HOME</defseq>
            <newseq type="standard">KEYCODE_W</newseq>
         </port>

--- End quote ---
I don't see an option to configure this in .149.
Joseph Elwell.

p1mrx:
I got this working in Lua.  Note that this uses the cheat plugin, not the -cheat command line flag.


--- Code: ----- mame -autoboot_script cheat_button.lua
--
-- This script opens the "Plugin Options" > "Cheat" menu when a button is pressed.
-- You must enable "cheat" in plugin.ini, or the menu will be blank.

frame_sub = emu.add_machine_frame_notifier(function()
    local input = manager.machine.input
    local ui = manager.ui
    -- example buttons:
    local seq = input:seq_from_tokens("KEYCODE_F12 or JOYCODE_BUTTON1")
    if not ui.menu_active and input:seq_pressed(seq) then
        emu.show_menu("Cheat")
    end
end)
--- End code ---

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