Easy Guide for Cheats

AlexMurphy

@herb_fargus Are you intending to add a guide for MAME cheats? A lot of people would appreciate it I'm sure. It's relatively straightforward to enable in the libretro MAMEs but requires editing configs in the non-lr MAMES.

AlexMurphy

@herb_fargus Hey, sorry Herb! I see the instructions are on the MAME setup pages. Maybe stick a link in at the bottom, just a thought.

herb_fargus

@AlexMurphy sure thing. I don't really use mame so i didn't know.

I'll update it when I get back to my PC.

hooperre

@herb_fargus Ah fair enough. Thanks for letting me know.

sergioad

Or... Why not fork the RetroArch cheats repo and make the necesary changes? Will be hard to have it up to date with the original repo but due the fact that many systems has more than 20 years with not oficial support it would not be as hard as with an active system

PetroRie

@sergioad said in Easy Guide for Cheats:

Or... Why not fork the RetroArch cheats repo and make the necesary changes? Will be hard to have it up to date with the original repo but due the fact that many systems has more than 20 years with not oficial support it would not be as hard as with an active system

That would take a lot of time. Most cheat files don't contain all the cheats which can be found on the internet. I have no idea how they made all those files because there are so many of them.

herb_fargus

@PetroRie cheats are just slight changes to code with minor binary injections. You can pretty much have an infinite amount of cheats if you want

sergioad

Of course

PetroRie

@herb_fargus said in Easy Guide for Cheats:

@PetroRie cheats are just slight changes to code with minor binary injections. You can pretty much have an infinite amount of cheats if you want

Yup thats true. Couldn't we have a RetroPie cheat database in which users could add cheats to the .cht files and download them like they had on the the Wii. Something similar like this: http://geckocodes.org/

It would be also nice if RetroPie has a cheat making engine so we could make our own cheats.

herb_fargus

@PetroRie if there are any quality cheats they should be pushed upstream to libretro instead of being forked.

backstander

https://github.com/libretro/libretro-database/tree/master/cht

mediamogul

@herb_fargus said in Easy Guide for Cheats:

if there are any quality cheats they should be pushed upstream to libretro instead of being forked.

Nothing says quality like 'Cheetahmen II', so I added the code file I arranged a few months back.

@backstander
Thanks for the link. I didn't know it was so easy to submit something like this.

backstander

@mediamogul

Nothing says quality like 'Cheetahmen II', so I added the code file I arranged a few months back.

Digital Christmas?
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6523/digital-christmas

mediamogul

@backstander said in Easy Guide for Cheats:

Digital Christmas?

Yep yep. Although in hindsight, gifting anything related to that game is really more Krampus than Kringle.