Posted: 9/5/2018 1:55 AM
Post subject: Recording in mame-rr with overclock cheats? Is this possible
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sugarfoot
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Hello. I'm wondering if it's possible to record movies in Mame-RR 0.139-v0.1 beta with some overclocking cheats enabled? And if so, how? Exactly what I'm trying to do:
    Write a cheat.dat file with overclock settings for all CPUs Have that file autoload when I launch mame with -cheat flag Record TAS movie files like normal
I think this is the snippet I need, but I'm not sure how to load this into this version of MAME (It's not working for me when I write this into a CHEATS.DAT file in root installation directory): 
ddragonw:65004000:00000000:00020000:00000000:Overclock CPU#1 
ddragonw:65004000:00000001:00020000:00000000:Overclock CPU#2 
ddragonw:65004000:00000002:00020000:00000000:Overclock CPU#3
This is for a Two-Player TAS project I'm working on for Double Dragon and Double Dragon 2. I'm totally aware I can't submit vids with cheats - I would be hosting this on my own channel for fun - just to show what a good, entertaining 2P TAS would look like for DD if I overclock CPUs to the point that 2P runs at same speed as 1P (as it stands now... 2P TAS vids of this game are fun to make, but pretty dreadful to watch as a viewer, due to all the lag of original arcade cabinet ROMs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojlzwZHmpuA
Posted: 9/5/2018 6:59 PM
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sugarfoot
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Update: I dug through source code and found I'm supposed to use XML based cheat files, not the old format I posted. So now my question is, is there a way to set CPU overclock slider from command line (I read the feature is no longer available in XML Cheat files) I'll just recompile from source if I can't figure it out, but if you happen to know special foo to adjust overclock settings from CLI, please let me know
Posted: 9/6/2018 11:40 AM
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mz
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sugarfoot wrote:
So now my question is, is there a way to set CPU overclock slider from command line (I read the feature is no longer available in XML Cheat files)
I believe you're only allowed to set the CPU overclock slider within MAME and it can't be saved in any way. (Because people forgot they had saved/automatically changed it and they would later report fake bugs.)
You're just fucking stupid, everyone hates you, sorry to tell you the truth. no one likes you, you're someone pretentious and TASes only to be on speed game, but don't have any hope, you won't get there.