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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

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

Bye.

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.

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.

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.

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'