Enable lr-mame2010 cheat

bktrantam

hi all
I run RetroPie v4.4 and use lr-mame2010 to run mame game, but I am interested in using cheat to play for funny ^^
Please help me to know how to enable cheat and set up for cheat working in RetroPie is v4.4

Thanks so much

mitu

@bktrantam It's covered in the Docs, take a look at that page.

bktrantam

hi i try and can not enable lr-mame2010 cheat, do you try this?? pls help me this problem thanks so much

mediamogul

@bktrantam

Can you describe what you tried that is failing? Did you transfer the necessary cheat.dat file to /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame2010/?

bktrantam

@mediamogul
I do as the following:

save rom game (mame0.139) to folder : /home/pi/RetroPie/rom/arcade/mame2010/
download cheat file (cheat.zip) for lr-mame2010 and save to: /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame2010/
and cheat not show in menu tab in game. Can you help me the way you enable cheat, thanks your kind

bktrantam

i wonder lr-mame2010 has support cheat or not ????

steptoe

Try adding these to the "opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg" to enable cheats for mame2010

mame2010-skip_disclaimer = "enabled"
mame2010-dcs-speedhack = "enabled"
mame2010-samples = "enabled"
mame2010-cheats = "enabled"

You can also try the other options. It won't do any harm but may help also

Clyde

@bktrantam said in Enable lr-mame2010 cheat:

@mediamogul
2. download cheat file (cheat.zip) for lr-mame2010 and save to: /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame2010/

In my experience, the cheat.dat file isn't kept in a zip or other archive file. I don't know if MAME can use it in zipped form. It may be worth a try to extract it.

steptoe

Alss, you usually have to use the command in the RetroArch config otherwise MAME won't know to enable cheats

mame2010-cheats = "enabled"

for mame2003 :

mame2003-cheats = "enabled"

Cheats are optional, so are not enabled by default

I've just checked my mame2010, the samples folder for mame2010 and the "history,dat" and "cheat.dat" are in

/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame2003/

I had to build the current mame201o from the optional menu in RetroPie. Be warned it can take HOURS even on an overclocked PI3 and running from USB hard drive. I use the SD card purely to boot into OSMC KODI then control is passed over to the USB hard drive. Its much faster and saves wear on the SD card. I used RetroSMC script to install RetroPie onto the OSMC build, so everything runs off USB hard drive and it all works perfectly, including snapshots and gameplay videos