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Main MAME Cheat Files Guides & Tools Forums Links 03 APRIL 2024 Added various cheats posted on the forums and some cheats I’ve made, and obviously the normal maintenance stuff. Here is the cheat collection update for the latest MAME (0.264). XML/JSON Cheat Collection for MAME 0.264 [3884K] Note: The XML/JSON Cheat Collection archives are double packed. Inside the downloaded zip archive you will find a large cheat.7z. It’s this cheat.7z that should be placed in the same directory as your MAME execute-able. Read the cheat.txt file contained in the cheat0264.zip for more information. If you spot any errors (non-working cheats or parsing errors) then please post them in this forum topic . 06 OCTOBER 2023 Another maintenance release, added various cheats posted on the forums (mainly from Abystus) and some cheats I’ve made. Here is the cheat collection update for the latest MAME (0.259). See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 05 AUGUST 2023 Similar maintenance release to this time, although I’ve also made cheats for most of the Exelvision EXL 100 software list games and I’ve started to make cheats for the Amstrad GX4000 software list games. Here is the cheat collection update for the latest MAME (0.257). See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 01 JULY 2023 This is more or less a maintenance release, although there are now cheats for most of the Mega Duck software list games. Here is the cheat collection update for the latest MAME (0.256). See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 03 JUNE 2023 Once again it’s been a while... Here is the cheat collection update for the latest MAME (0.255). See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 09 JULY 2022 Once again it’s been far too long since the last release, so without further ado... Here is the cheat collection update for the latest MAME (0.245). See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 19 JUNE 2020 Ok, it’s been over a year since the last release, this time around it’s simply a massive update. I’ve been adding cheats fairly silently for the various MAME software lists for a while now, this time I’ve converted SMS, NES & SNES cheats into XML format. The cheats will need testing, tidying & renaming but that a job for another day (or another lifetime). The raw NES/SNES cheats for conversion were donated by GameHacking.org , a great site and resource - thanks guys (especially rimsky82). So here is the cheat collection update for the latest MAME (0.221). See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 08 FEBRUARY 2019 The cheat collection is 21 today! I simply can’t believe 21 years have gone by so fast! If I’d realised that MAME was going to emulate so much I probably would never have started... Anyway without further ado here is the cheat collection update for the latest MAME (0.206). See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 12 AUGUST 2018 Here is the cheat collection update for the latest MAME (0.200). I simply couldn’t leave a double zero MAME release pass by without an updated cheat database. See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 07 JULY 2018 Here is the cheat collection update for the latest MAME (0.199). It’s been a whole year since the last release, sorry about that! Hopefully, the next release should be sooner as I still have quite a few things to clean up and add now that I’ve done most of the grunt work. See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 07 JULY 2017 Here is the cheat collection update for the latest MAME (0.187). See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. Since MAME 0.186 crazyc has made some more really useful changes to the LUA cheat plugin (accessed via the Plugin Options\Cheat on the MAME TAB menu): 1. You can now once again assign cheats to activation keys and it’s actually a lot easier than it used to be, you can do it via the "Set Hotkeys" option in the menu or directly by editing the gamename_hotkeys.json file in the cheat directory. 2. The ability to add Game Genie codes direct to the cheat.simple file in the cheat directory, eg: nes/3dworldr,gg,AEUOLTPA,Infinite Lives gameboy/addfamu,gg,C9E-F8E-081,Infinite Energy gamegear/alien3,gg,002-B1C-3B7,Infinite Energy megadriv/aaahhrmu,gg,ACFA-AACC,Infinite Lives snes/aaahhrmu,gg,C282-04A7,Infinite Energy Of course you can already use the cheatfind plugin option to find cheats if you can’t get along with the debugger commandline cheat searching commands or want to try some different methods. If you can’t see either the cheat/cheatfind or plugin options via the tab menu, add the following text to the plugin.ini file:- cheat 1 cheatfind 1 To read more about the plugin cheat engine or ask questions then have a look at this forum topic . 30 MAY 2017 Jumping the gun for this release, here is the cheat collection update for the latest MAME 0.186 (due release tomorrow). The highlight of this release is that it now contains cheats for 1929 games from the PSX softwarelist, I’ve collated the cheats from various GS/AR lists and converted them into XML format for ease of use. See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 01 APRIL 2017 I’m currently encountering problems updating cheat.retrogames.com, so instead please use http://www.mamecheat.co.uk UPDATE 18 APR 2017: The problem with the cheat.retrogames.com server have now been resolved (thanks Zach). I do however suggest you use the www.mamecheat.co.uk link incase of future issues with the webspace. 31 MARCH 2017 Here’s the overdue cheat collection update for the latest MAME (0.184). See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 19 JUNE 2016 Here’s the new cheat collection for MAME 0.174. There is now an alternative LUA cheat engine in MAME (thanks to crazyc) which you will find under the plugins menu. This once again allows you to find cheats via the MAME menus - read about it/post about it in this forum topic . See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 30 MARCH 2016 A milestone release for MAME today, and to celebrate here’s the new cheat collection for MAME 0.172. With this cheat file release we return to having working ROM cheats for the softwarelist games as well as finally being able to make new ones (yay!). See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 04 JANUARY 2016 Happy New Year, here’s the new cheat collection for MAME 0.169. It includes cheats for a large bunch of Atari 7800 softwarelist games and also the Tourvision games that have been added very recently. See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 07 DECEMBER 2015 Christmas is almost upon us, so I guess it’s time for an updated cheat collection... See the MAME Cheat Files section for a link for this version which has now been superceded. 27 JUNE 2015 Cheat Collection Update for the latest MAME. Note, with this release the MAME cheat file no longer just contains cheats for arcade games it also contains cheats for the softwarelist based home computer/console systems formerly solely part of MESS. There is at least a ’placeholder’ cheat file for every individual softwarelist entry, though there are actual varying numbers of cheats for games in the advision, arcadia, coleco, gamegear, gamepock, jaguar, lynx, megadriv, megatech, neogeo, nes, nes_ade, pce, pv1000, pv2000, samcoupe_flop, sgx, stv, sv8000, tg16 & vii software lists. There are long-standing issues with slot ROM cheats in the former solely MESS systems...