> > Running 64 bit MAME .207 on a 64 bit Windows 10 machine. > > > > Played Popeye (revision D). Everything was fine. However, I did notice on this > game, > > if you change dip switches, the changes do not take effect until the game is > totally > > restarted (on some games it takes effect after cycling through attract mode). > > More often than not, games with hardwired dip switches are read at boot time and > changing the orientation of the switches is not recommended while the machine is in > operation. MAME does not force reset, so such changes with DIP would be best followed > by exiting then restarting MAME, or using the SHFIT+F3 which is a HARD RESET, > basically stop/start in one step. > > > I changed one dip switch, from up right to cocktail. When I restarted the game, I > got > > this error message: > > > > Fatal error: netlist ERROR: Error adding TERMINAL C.5 to terminal list > > > > At that point, it completely boots me out of the MAME front end I am running > > (MAMEUI64). > > > > Changing that one dip switch was the only thing I did between the two games. Now I > > can't even start the game to change the dip switch back. Can anyone tell me how to > > manually change the dip? I imagine I have to edit some file somewhere, but I have > no > > idea where. Thanks, > > > > Joe (joemagiera at ameritech dot net) > > [email protected] > > I only have MAME64 version 0.207 (official from mamedev.org) and I do not get such an > error no matter what the Cabinet switch is set to. MAMEUI, I think by default, saves > all previous run information (write config) so if you get a configuration that causes > problems, it will continue in that state until you exit MAME and then manually delete > your entry in the CFG folder (popeye.cfg) and try again. > > Current version 0.215 as well as current Github sources also seem to work fine, so > I'm unsure why the UI flavor is having issues. There is a new version expected in > just a couple days, perhaps you'd want to pick that up.
it's a report for 0.207, that bug did exist in certain configurations in said build
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