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(MAME) explore incorporating MAME cheats
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Description
I've been tracking down the necessary metadata to enable cheating for the various MAME cores. As of today, each of the 'frozen' MAME cores includes a cheat.dat in a folder titled metadata which should make it possible to use MAME's internal cheat engine.
That said, one day someone might want to adapt MAME cheats to the standard libretro approach to cheating. That isn't me -- today at least -- but I thought I'd post an issue in case this project catches anyone else's imagination.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the frozen MAME core directories and their metadata/cheat.dat files. Then read the project's existing cheatcode file conventions and any libretro cheat documentation. Done would require a decided scope and implementation plan for incorporating MAME cheats, which this issue does not yet define.
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Assessment
- Domain
- game-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100