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CREATING NEW REPLAY FILES
To record an 'action replay' file of your own, use the -record option:
(again, you shouldn't specify the .inp extension - MAME always adds
the '.inp' part)
mame gamename -record filename
Note that when making a replay file it is important that you don't have any .hi or .cfg file for the game in question, or the file probably won't play back properly. Your character will follow the correct path on the screen, but the bad guys probably won't, and you'll end up bumping into them. :o(
To make the process of recording new replay files easier, here's a script that I prepared earlier. Download the script and put it in your MAME directory (the place where mame.exe and the 'hi' and 'cfg' directories are). Run the script from your MAME directory like this:
and it will do the following:
record gamename
The filename it creates is
zw_gamename.inp where
gamename is the name of the game you ran the script with.
Change the 'zw' bit in the script to your initials or something if it
pleases you to do so.
If you just want to check that the file plays back OK, you can set the
frameskip to 3 and turn throttling off. These things don't affect how
the games run. Throttling is toggled with the F10 key.
The .inp files zip up extremely well. Please zip
any .inp files before
mailing them to me!
For help on how to play back replay files, click here.
For a discussion of the randomness in the games, and why it need
bother us not a jot, click here.
Back to MAME Action Replay Page
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