Be gentle with me, but I'm totally new to MAME action replays...
Can someone pleaseplease tell me in good ol' plain talk, how to get those .inp files actually playing back a game recording?
Why can't I just stick 'em in my 'inp' folder and open them from the game-list screen? Although the games open up, they mostly just crash without showing anything.
Duuuuuh. I'm stuck.
I'm using MAME32 0.58 on a WinXP PC.
Cheers.
Newbie confusion...
Moderator: Chad
can you play games and not crash? and only when you play them back do they crash? If not i'd recommending making mame32 work with just playing games before trying to figure out why inps crash mame32.
if they are crashing on playback only, then do a test recording yourself a small one. record a game drop a credit and then ESC. play that inp recording back and see if it works, if it does it's proly a corrupted inp you are playing back that crashes mame.
if they are crashing on playback only, then do a test recording yourself a small one. record a game drop a credit and then ESC. play that inp recording back and see if it works, if it does it's proly a corrupted inp you are playing back that crashes mame.
-skito
You stupid boy, don't you know anything? 
j/k 
Firstly, make sure that you're using the same version of MAME that was used to make the original recording although there is a good chance that with more recent versions this need not always be necessary.
Then unzip the inp into the inp directory. Sometimes however it is possible to play back recordings without unzipping. I think if the inp file is called <shortgamename>.inp and is zipped into <shortgamename>.zip then it works. MARP renames uploaded files so replaying from the zip file doesn't always work. Also renaming the extracted inp to <shortgamename>.inp can solve some problems.
Delete your nvram directory to avoid playback issues in this area.
Select the game from the main window then replay the inp via File->Playback Input... Choose the inp inside the save box and click Open, I found this to be more reliable than double clicking on the inp.
Regards, Gaz
j/k Firstly, make sure that you're using the same version of MAME that was used to make the original recording although there is a good chance that with more recent versions this need not always be necessary.
Then unzip the inp into the inp directory. Sometimes however it is possible to play back recordings without unzipping. I think if the inp file is called <shortgamename>.inp and is zipped into <shortgamename>.zip then it works. MARP renames uploaded files so replaying from the zip file doesn't always work. Also renaming the extracted inp to <shortgamename>.inp can solve some problems.
Delete your nvram directory to avoid playback issues in this area.
Select the game from the main window then replay the inp via File->Playback Input... Choose the inp inside the save box and click Open, I found this to be more reliable than double clicking on the inp.
Regards, Gaz
Re: Newbie confusion...
No troubles. Unzip the file attached. Run from DOS like this: Type p then the romname and hit enterSickboy wrote:Be gentle with me, but I'm totally new to MAME action replays...
Can someone pleaseplease tell me in good ol' plain talk, how to get those .inp files actually playing back a game recording?
Why can't I just stick 'em in my 'inp' folder and open them from the game-list screen? Although the games open up, they mostly just crash without showing anything.
Duuuuuh. I'm stuck.
I'm using MAME32 0.58 on a WinXP PC.
Cheers.
Ray
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"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz