Are you talking about the command.dat file?
> > 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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