MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: -bench command

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> The -bench only issues that certain combination of commands (-str xx -video none
> -sound none -nothrottle) and does not influence other settings (such as -artpath). It
> is up to the user to decide what settings to disable or change. I'd suggest if you
> are looking a bare bones approach, simply add the -norc (noreadconfig) command-line
> trigger and then add something for -rompath or curate a special mame.ini with the
> specific settings you desire.
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> > Also, mame creates an .ini file with the bench settings! So after running "mame
> dkong
> > -bench 90", the next time I feel like playing dkong, the darn thing just runs a 90
> > second bench instead of launching the game! Please tell me this is a bug and not
> > expected behavior...
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> This does not happen with any version released by MAMEDEV by default. It would sound
> to me like your writeconfig is set to 1 in your INI file. Set this to 0 if you don't
> want to retain the last launch settings.

Yes, there was indeed a writeconfig 1 in the .ini. Thanks for the tips! But in the long term, I assume leaving it at 0 means any default settings that I need to change for games will never get saved, and it still seems odd that running -bench 90 would create a config with "seconds_to_run 90" in it, even with "write config 1" set. Other than running a benchmark, I can't imagine a single case where someone would want that setting by default.

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