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This is my MAME video tutorials thread. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, so there will be video tutorials to help you with all sorts of cool MAME stuff.
Post any comments or requests or ideas for more videos that could help the MAME addicted people in the Discussion Thread.
A demonstration of how to find, setup, and use MAME cheats. This is mainly about cheat.zip for newer versions of MAME, although it's pretty much the same deal with cheat.dat for the older MAMEs. The only difference with cheat.dat setup is that it must be fully extracted into the root directory.
The following is quoted from Leezer's Unofficial Highscore.dat page:
"Hiscore.dat is a complimentary file to help Mame in saving high scores.
Most Mame games save their high scores by default, but over 2500 games
do not save their high scores.
The Hiscore.dat file tells Mame some additional information and how to read and store the high scores using the /hi directory instead of /nvram."
My tutorial will help you locate and setup the hiscore.dat correctly.
CHD files are often a source of great confusion for MAME newbies. Find out what CHDs are and how to set them up properly with my quick tutorial.
One good compatibility solution I can recommend is to match MAMEUI - http://www.mameui.info/ - with emuparadise (no rom site links, use Google please).
Some other important things to realise about MAME CHD games. Many of them are still in preliminary emulation status and even though you may be able to download them somewhere, there is no way for them work in MAME until the emulation is more complete. One way to check the emulation status of any game is in MAME itself. Open current MAMEUI and click the CHD folder in the left field to view all CHD games, then click a game to view status near the bottom right.
Even so, once you have an idea of which games may or may not be worth downloading there aren't always any guarantees that a particular game will run properly on your system. Some games, like Gauntlet Legends for example, would require something approaching a super computer to run at full original performance. Others, like Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, will generally run fine even on an old P4, in spite of the cps3.c driver status still being classified as imperfect at the time of writing.
My tutorial will show you how to easily record arcade gameplay movies for most MAME games internally, using MAMEPlus!, with no need for any external screen capturing software.
