NVRam question

[Luja]

Hi!

I use alphamame32. In order to record well my games, I delete the nvram folder. But, when I play a game that uses a nvram file, the folder is created another time with the file for the game.

Is there a mode to prevent the creation of the nvram folder???

Thx

[Frankie]

1. Delete NVRAM directory.
2. Save empty txt file into your mame directory.
3. Rename the txt file 'nvram'.

Bye.

[Buttermaker]

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[mahlemiut]

Or the much easier way - set the NVRAM folder to NUL.

Win32 console - open mame.ini, change the value next 'nvram_directory' to NUL

DOS - same as above, but open mame.cfg instead.

MAME32 - Options -> Directories..., change the folder for NVRAM to NUL.

XMAME - Open ~/.xmame/xmamerc, change nvram_directory to /dev/null (or add it if necessary).

I don't know how MacMAME works, so I can't comment of that, but if you use an XMAME build on MacOS X, then the above should apply.

[LN2]

That's not an issue in macmame. You just remove the nvram folder and it's gone....doesn't come back...no .nv files saved without it.

[kranser]

mahlemiut wrote:

Win32 console - open mame.ini, change the value next 'nvram_directory' to NUL

Now, that is a good way of doing things, I didn't know that you could do that.
Can this be added as a command line option in MAME? If so, could we change the record.bat file so that it still backs up the NVRAM file, but then executing MAME, it uses a command line option to set the NVRAM folder to NUL. I think this would be a big improvement.

Regards,
Kranser.

[mahlemiut]

Yes. Just add -nvram_directory NUL to the commandline. Should work on all ports.

EDIT: Of course, under Unix/Linux, you'd substitute 'NUL' for '/dev/null'