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and don't forget all of those command line options are also lines you can insert in mame.ini, so you don't have to always say -fs0 -nothrottle -nosound if you like playing really smooth, fast, quiet and in a window (not very useful options for playing) you put this in the mame.ini

fs 0
window 1
throttle 0
sound 0

and each time you run

mame.exe gamename

it will read from the mame.ini and remember the options each time.

I could probably figure this out with some work, but not most casual users. It is work that I'm used to being done for me through the graphic interface via point and click. Keyboard is more in my way than the mouse. I hope someone makes it to wolfmameplus soon and provides it for everyone. I'm not griping about someone doing what I want, because I sure don't pay for their time, though it's worth alot. Command line isn't for newbs.

Microsoft and Apple have a lot to answer, making computers so easy to use that a monkey could use one.

I just don't get how it can be so difficult for someone to just type "mame pacman -record pacman" or just use the scripts I provided and type "record pacman pacman". All the extra options are explained in the MAME documentation, although admittedly, the docs on the MAME website are out of date. The (hopefully) up to date options have already been posted here anyway.

I have to say that I agree! There really is no work involved here, if everyone just sat down and spent 3 minutes to figure out what they are doing then you'd all realise how simple it all is.

So one more time for the road......You just need to type 2 or 3 words and if you require it, a frameskip setting. Like what's been covered 2 or 3 times already - to play a game it's mame [gamename]...and that's all there is to it.

Record and playback are covered by batch files so it's just - record [gamename] [name of saved file] [frameskip setting if you need] and the same for playback replacing record with playback. That's it!! There is nothing to figure out. I really can't see the problem here, certainly not one that requires 5 pages of comments anyway.

Maybe I find it easier because I've been using command line mame for years but I'm sure everyone here is capable.

mahlemiut wrote:I just don't get how it can be so difficult for someone to just type "mame pacman -record pacman" or just use the scripts I provided and type "record pacman pacman"...

Barry... please remember the "professional" players (can I call as it? )... or be, the players do attempts after attempts, to try to do a decent record on a decent game...
I am imaginating "how bad" will be the life if I will need to write commandlines every time, etc.

You are complicating our lives Barry (I know you may ask "what you prefer... your life or my life?)

TRB_MetroidTeam wrote:

mahlemiut wrote:I just don't get how it can be so difficult for someone to just type "mame pacman -record pacman" or just use the scripts I provided and type "record pacman pacman"...

Barry... please remember the "professional" players (can I call as it? )... or be, the players do attempts after attempts, to try to do a decent record on a decent game...
I am imaginating "how bad" will be the life if I will need to write commandlines every time, etc.

You are complicating our lives Barry (I know you may ask "what you prefer... your life or my life?)

Actually, come to think of it, commandline might be easier to do attempt after attempt. In Windows XP atleast, I don't recall in the older versions of Windows but, you can press up and down to scroll through any of the commands you previously typed and entered. So really, all you have to do is exit the game, then hit up and enter and you're back in. Instead where the GUI makes you right click, etc.

sikraiken wrote:So really, all you have to do is exit the game, then hit up and enter and you're back in. Instead where the GUI makes you right click, etc.

It is true, however I think I am pretty "perfeccionist".
Last week I asked to Barry and others on #MARP what means it, and no one answered correctly my question...

"What means ALT, DOWN, DOWN, ENTER?"

I asked it and asked if Barry would make a "one-click" shortcut (mainly to joystick input) to this useful "play and record input".

sikraiken wrote:Actually, come to think of it, commandline might be easier to do attempt after attempt. In Windows XP atleast, I don't recall in the older versions of Windows but, you can press up and down to scroll through any of the commands you previously typed and entered. So really, all you have to do is exit the game, then hit up and enter and you're back in. Instead where the GUI makes you right click, etc.

In earlier versions of Windows, and waaaaay back in the days of MS-DOS, you could use DOSkey to give the same functionality. Just enter "doskey" at the command prompt (or DOS prompt) for those who think a keyboard is too complicated to use.

TRB_MetroidTeam wrote:Last week I asked to Barry and others on #MARP what means it, and no one answered correctly my question...

"What means ALT, DOWN, DOWN, ENTER?"

I asked it and asked if Barry would make a "one-click" shortcut (mainly to joystick input) to this useful "play and record input".

Up, Enter takes less typing then Alt, Down, Down, Enter

The TJT wrote:

I wrote: Is there an "minimal analog value for controller input"-option at regular mame, how to use it etc...?

Ok, after small research, I think I get the wanted result using "mame gamename -mouse -a2d 0.20" , and could make a bat.
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Also, I see, at MAME106 if you type -createconfig /cc"
, you get mame.ini created

If I wanted to do same here, I should use:

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### Input device options ###
mouse                   1
.
(snip)
.
a2d_deadzone            0.200000
# ctrlr                 <NULL> (not set)

How can I use these mame.ini options for a single game: deadzone being 0.20 for one game only, for other games it would be default(0.30)?
Can I make a gamename.ctrlr or something?

It would be nice to have a wolfmameplus update every once in a while.

and I wrote: Put gamename.ini in to mame-folder, override works, thanks

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