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Offline furrykef

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A new MAME cheat: "Loop current stage"
« on: April 08, 2020, 02:49:10 pm »
This cheat will repeat the current stage indefinitely instead of moving onto the next stage. For instance, if you want to practice the elevators at L=05, you can first set the "Select Starting Level" cheat to 5, then use "Finish This Level Now!" a few times until you reach the elevators, then make a save state (so you can skip straight there next time) and turn on "Loop current stage" and "Infinite Lives".

I find this a little more convenient than messing with save states, and it also has the nice bonus of not resetting the RNG to the same state the way a save state would.

To use this cheat, put the attached dkong.xml file in the "cheat" subfolder of your MAME folder, then launch MAME using "mame64 -cheat dkong" (replacing mame64 with whatever the name of your MAME executable is). The XML file is a copy of Pugsy's cheat file with my cheat added to it, so it has a bunch of other cheats in it.

If you already have a cheat file for dkong, you can just copy-paste the relevant portion into it.
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Offline tonster1968

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Re: A new MAME cheat: "Loop current stage"
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2020, 06:06:21 pm »
Thanks for this. It's been super-helpful!
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