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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