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Hopefully this will be for the better - Mark Longridge has changed TG settings to allow 750 health! So just use default settings and you'll be alright - but I don't think we're still allowing secret codes.
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if you recorded with 700, I don't think there's anything wrong with keeping the recording, since you used less health than the new settings.

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Hopefully this will satisfy everyone...

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goldengameboy@yahoo.com

I was able to save 650 for a test and no secret options, was there a
problem doing this? you have to hit the save key (warrior magic
button) which is by default mapped to "ALT" all the way around in
service mode and then hit escape while still in service mode, this
seemed to save the settings, i was able to restart mame and it still
had 750 saved. Don't press the warrior Fire key, by default mapped
to "CNTRL" because it will erase the settings you just set!

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churritz@cts.com

Here was most of our problems: although it "saved" the new settings,
I went straight back to the default(750 health) when we came out of
test mode. So it's like we didn't change anything, although we
unofficially did. This is why Mark and I changed the rules - which I
hope makes things a lot easier for everyone to toil with

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goldengameboy@yahoo.com

Try not coming out of "service mode" before you hit escape, i.e. leave
it in service mode saved when you quit mame, then run mame (you'll
start up in service mode get out of it and then try again?) This did
seem to work for me, but maybe i needed to try escaping and running
mame one more time to make sure it really saved it (at least it saved
it between two mame invokations.)

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churritz@cts.com

Leaving it in service mode won't work when recording. When you start
recording a game, it won't start up in service mode. Getting it to
remember the 700 is not too hard, but it ignores those settings
(including starting up in service mode) when recording because these
settings are NOT in the .cfg file (which is loaded when recording),
but in the .hi file (which is NOT loaded when recording). So every
time you record, it will use the defaults, regardless of the changes
you made in service mode and regardless of whether you hit escape
while in service mode.

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This problem is fixed in 36b15 (and maybe in some earlier versions as
well), so it is possible to record a game starting at 700 health
there, but that does not help us any at this point.

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Cheers,
Ben Jos.

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walbeehm@walbeehm.com

oh yeah i might have been using mame.exe and not tg3m35, it doesn't
work

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churritz@cts.com