How to enable freeplay

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jasonatjones
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How to enable freeplay

Post by jasonatjones » Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:05 am

I currently use the pre-defined hot-key sequence to 'insert credits'. I want to enable freeplay by default (for those games that allow it). I see in the documentation that I need to set misc_freeplay yes, and i tried that in /boot/config.txt, but to no avail. Where (which file) do I edit to set that?

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Re: How to enable freeplay

Post by dee2eR » Thu Jul 15, 2021 2:44 pm

That only works for AdvMAME, other MAME versions need to be set manually using the MAME menu dipswitch submenu while the game is running.

For AdvMAME that setting goes in /home/pi/.advance/advmame.rc (and advmame.nosdl.rc too). You may need to go through the file in case the setting is already there as having a duplicate setting in the rc file can make AdvMAME stop working.

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