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Author Topic: Auto Setting Freeplay in MAME?  (Read 1960 times)

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Auto Setting Freeplay in MAME?
« on: June 19, 2005, 04:47:53 pm »
Is there a program that automatically sets all (or as many as possible) games to freeplay in MAME? I'm thinking of a clever little program like the Auto-res tools out there?

I'd like to set all my games to freeplay on my cab, and can't be bothered to go into each dipswitch setting in every game.

Thanks

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Re: Auto Setting Freeplay in MAME?
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2005, 03:28:16 am »
Nope.....


The main reason behind this being the fact that in mame cfg files, ALL
dipswitches have the same name ("DIPSWITCH_NAME") so it's impossible to tell which switch does what. 

A sample dipswitch setting taken from puckman: 

<port type="DIPSWITCH_NAME" mask="128" defvalue="128" value="128">
</port>

Notice the port type name isn't much help.  I need to get ahold of the mame devs....  if they were to add a "caption" tag into the port type header it should be possible to make some sort of batch program. 

Sorry, If I've bored you, I just happen to be looking into this exact part of the cfg file structure and I thought I would share.  :)

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Re: Auto Setting Freeplay in MAME?
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2005, 04:21:22 am »
If you use my Front End (the Pro version which manage credit). , you can set "Free Play".

The Pro version, is limited , but the limitation is "After a while all games run in Free Play."
The Prototype on my web site , is based on mameplus 0.90.

My Free play mode does not modify DIP Switch, it only insert 10 credits at each start of a game.