Response to what do we think of this 'Twin Galaxies Book' thing?

That's not quite true.

It does, indeed, ignore the .hi file, which contains the high scores and any volatile RAM settings (like starwars or quantum use instead of dipswitches).

However, when you -record a game, MAME uses the .cfg file to determine which settings to use for the dipswitches. When you then play the recording back, MAME uses the same values for the dipswitches that were used during the recording - even if those switches were changed while the game was playing (which makes a difference to some games and not to others...)

So to make the 'TG' recording of centipd1, what I did was:

1) > mame centipd1 2) set dipswitch to 'HARD' then hit ESC to exit & save settings 3) > mame centipd1 -record centipd1

Then you can delete centipd1.cfg (if you like, though it won't make any difference) and do:

4) > mame centipd1 -playback centipd1

to play the game back.

Geddit?

Chris.

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