MAME Cheats on RetroPie!
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Hello,
What i have to do to activate cheats in MAME and to see them when i press TAB on keyboard. Thank you in advance!
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Most forum users frequent all the sections. There's really no need to ask the same question in 37 different places.
Your answer can be found at the link below.
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003#cheats -
Thank you for response. But i need to know what exactly i have to with this:
Further to this, the 'enabled cheats' core option needs to be turned on via a setting in the retroarch-core-options.cfg file, found in:
/opt/retropie/configs/all/
The option is:mame2003-cheats = "enabled"
Where i have to edit, on network with pc or directly in retropie via controller and TV?
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You can just bring up the rgui while in a game by pressing 'Select+X'. From there, navigate to 'Quick Menu' and then 'Options'. The setting can be enabled there.
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Is not working while i am in game on MAME, when i press nothing happens, only if pres on keyboard 5 for credit or tab, i control the game with controller only after i credit the game and begin...but select + X is not working at all
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It will be easier to help you further if you first follow the guidelines detailed in the link below:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first -
I already read those when i register. I tryed what you said and is working on other consoles but on MAME no.
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@Rpie4TheWOLF said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:
I already read those when i register.
If you'll remember, those guidelines also make mention of the information required to help diagnose a problem like you're having. For example, what version of MAME are you running?
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0.81
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@Rpie4TheWOLF I call Troll!
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Hah! Well, just in case he isn't, here is a list of all the Mame versions available in RetroPie. When you select a game, a little white window pops up for a moment or two and will say which version of Mame you're using. If the rgui is not acitvating, it's likely to be 'Mame4all-Pi', 'AdvanceMAME .94', or 'AdvanceMAME'.
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I checked and it shows me advmame 0.94.0, after the full update, what i have to do next?
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@Rpie4TheWOLF said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:
it shows me advmame 0.94.0
That would indicate that you're using 'AdvanceMAME .94'. Unless you have a specific reason to stay with that emulator, you can use the runcommand window to select 'lr-mame2003' as your emulator and the instructions you've been attempting to follow previously would then apply. If you should choose to move in that direction, make sure you obtain ROMs from the 0.78 ROM set, otherwise known as the MAME 2003 Reference Set.
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So currently, if you want to run MAME games, not use a totaly inferior ROM set (seriously.. .78? mame2003 needs to be abolished from retropi), and use cheats, you have to kick retropi to the curb and run mame using raspbian?
Seriously for consoles retropi is awesome... for mame/final burn it sucks.
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It all depends on the games you like to play most. The Raspberry Pi in general is completely inadequate to run most any MAME title past the 90s, but as long as you're using something like lr-mame2003, where the overhead is much lower than a more modern MAME build, it's still an an excellent choice for playing the classics.
RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive
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@JeffMD said in MAME Cheats on RetroPie!:
So currently, if you want to run MAME games, not use a totaly inferior ROM set (seriously.. .78? mame2003 needs to be abolished from retropi), and use cheats, you have to kick retropi to the curb and run mame using raspbian?
current mame in raspbian will barely run anything fullspeed, and basically nothing that's not in the mame 0.78 romset in the first place. to use it is to run less games. what's the point?
final burn it sucks.
current final burn is fully functional on the pi?
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Is not working, in runcommand i have 2 options advmame-0.94.0 and advmame-1.4
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You can install it by using the information found here.
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@mediamogul Where exactly? i was looking there but there is no point with mame or cheats installation, i also did most of those thing in that tutorial.
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Use that instructional link to first install lr-mame2003 and then you can enable cheats using the method we've been discussing in this thread.
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