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tyweed

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can't you save on mame?
« on: March 22, 2003, 06:41:10 pm »
I thought one of the perks of mame was that if you wanted to save at any position in the game you hit left shift with f7 then it prompts for a letter to save to so then i hit 'a' on the keyboard. So then to test it i restart game hit f7 then hit 'a' the key that had the position and i get nothing? on quite a few games i'v tried to save and no luck i'd really love to be able to save my games if anyone has any ideas what i'm doing wrong it be great.............
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Re:can't you save on mame?
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2003, 07:51:54 pm »
Try saving to a number "1,2,3,4, etc"
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Re:can't you save on mame?
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2003, 09:21:13 pm »
also depends if the driver for the game supports it.
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Re:can't you save on mame?
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2003, 01:09:00 pm »
do you know how to check to see if a driver supports saving? will the driver have a command or something to look for that will tell me?
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Re:can't you save on mame?
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2003, 05:46:02 pm »
Yeah you run the game, make a high score, and if it doesn't save it then it doesn't support saving.  

Sorry but ask a stupid question....... ;)
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Re:can't you save on mame?
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2003, 08:34:41 pm »
Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 23, 2003, 05:46:02 pm

Sorry but ask a stupid question....... ;)

jeeze....that wasn't very nice.
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Re:can't you save on mame?
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2003, 09:06:17 pm »
I don't think he was asking about hi score saving.  
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Re:can't you save on mame?
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2003, 09:41:48 pm »
your right i wasn't asking about hi score......... who is the stupid one now hahaha!
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Re:can't you save on mame?
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2003, 10:46:01 pm »
same difference, only one way to find out is to try.
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Re:can't you save on mame?
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2003, 10:59:30 pm »
hey howard just giving you a hard time you have helped me with alot of my problems! keep up the killer support. i'm sure i'll be bugging you again soon about those wrappers.Next week is wrapper week wish me luck
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