MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Interest in a tricks.dat?

> Just floating the idea for right now to see what people think. I'm not even really
> sure of the practicalities of integrating it into MAME, though in at least a basic
> form it shouldn't be much of a problem.
>

Quite a few years back there was some mention of a moves.dat. The idea behind it was that it would list moves for mainly fighting games. It was already being used in another version or front-end for MAME... but it was an illegal build or something like that. Also, it was considered that it would just take up extra space (cause bloat) and wouldn't really be beneficial.

Although, if there were a database - users could add only the info/data for the games they needed without having a ton of other useless 'tricks/moves' for the games they didn't have.

Er, anyway. I doubt anything like that would happen. At least in the official MAME build.

eta: iirc, S.P. -when he would submit cheats - I think he would include 'tricks' in the bottom/comment part of cheats for games. But I haven't used cheats in MAME for a long time.

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Edited by T0M (02/15/12 02:57 AM)