MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Cheat.dat Problems

> Yeah, I was clear as mud there.
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> Sorry, I think of it as Cheat.dat because I'm old, and can't keep up with myself.
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> I am using the correct file though - I gotr it from here:
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> http://www.mamecheat.co.uk/
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> However, the file I got (the latest) doesn't seem to work at all. I
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> As I wrote earlier, I previously (back on 0.149) unzipped the cheats into a folder.
> If I point at that things are okay, but this updated file (and another I tried) just
> do nothing.

Follow these steps:

1) Get the "cheat0163.zip" from the above site.

2) Inside that downloaded archive which you should be able to open with Windows Compressed Folder (.zip) support is a file called "cheat.7z". Copy this from the .zip and extract it as cheat.7z into the same folder which your mame.exe/mameui.exe resides.
EXAMPLE [c:\mame - containing mame.exe and cheat.7z]

3) Ensure that your cheatpath is pointing to "cheat" by checking the output of: mame -showusage | find "cheatpath"
MAME considers archives as folders, so the cheat.7z folder is the same as a "cheat" subfolder and it considers it, following the example above [c:\mame\cheat]. Make sure at least the entry "cheat" is showing for cheatpath.

4) Start MAME with the -cheat trigger and the cheat menu should show for any games which have available cheats.

You can extract all the individual .xml files into a folder and point to that folder if you need to, just make sure the folder you create for them is part of cheatpath. In the end if you don't make cheats, it is much easier and much less space usage to keep them compressed in cheat.7z