Sub-folders for cheat files?

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Original [issue 165](https://code.google.com/p/genplus-gx/issues/detail?id=165) created by ChronoMew on 2011-04-08T17:01:39.000Z:

Rather than mixing both Mega Drive and Master System cheat files in the same folder, would it be possible to make the emulator use a sub-directory for each system's cheat files?

[Former user]

Comment # 1 originally posted by kingofchaos6669 on 2011-04-08T17:38:34.000Z:

Are SMS cheats even supported? They're a whole different can of worms.

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Comment # 2 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2011-04-08T18:31:21.000Z:

Game Genie did not even exist for Master System so no codes exist but in theory you could use Genesis Game Genie code format to patch the ROM as usual, providing you know how to build the code. It existed for Game Gear though, with a whole different code format that I might support if I add Game Gear support.

Action replay codes for Master System came in a different format. To get them working in Genesis Plus GX, you only need to take the Master System Code and transform it to Genesis format.

Like this: 00AA AADD for example would become FFAAAA:00DD

About your suggestion, is that really an issue ? It's not complicate to implement but I would rather keep the code simple and not add useless features just for the sake of adding them.

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Comment # 3 originally posted by ChronoMew on 2011-04-08T19:01:14.000Z:

If you check Mighty Mo's site, the Kega Fusion cheat code pack contains SMS cheat files as well.

This I mentioned was not an issue, it was merely a suggestion since there are SMS games that share the exact same name as their Mega Drive counterparts, which can be troublesome.

Anyways, great job with the emulator as usual. ;)

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Comment # 4 originally posted by kingofchaos6669 on 2011-04-08T20:01:02.000Z:

Yeah, there are Pro Action Replay codes, as there was a PAR for the Master System.

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Comment # 5 originally posted by kingofchaos6669 on 2011-04-08T20:05:32.000Z:

Also, you couldn't actually cheat through the Power Base Converter as far as I know (has anyone ever tried using a PAR with the PBC?). This feature request would probably be better for SMS Plus GX, honestly.

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Comment # 6 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2011-04-09T11:55:00.000Z:

I dunno, maybe PBC did not connect all lines and therefore prevents it from working but in theory, there is nothing that prevent MS Action Replay to be used through an adapter.

About the issue, I don't want to manage multiple cheats directory, it can become quite a mess. Also same thing would applies for snapshots if you have multiple ROMs with the same name. A better idea would be to keep the file extension (.sms, .gg, .bin, whatever) at the end of the cheat or snaphsot files, like this XXXX.sms.pat pr XXXX.md.pat

What do you think ?

Or you could also rename your ROMs to make sure they don't share the exact same name, would sure save me some time of boring code to add.

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Comment # 7 originally posted by ChronoMew on 2011-04-09T12:39:38.000Z:

It does sound like a good idea to just rename the roms and their respective cheat files. It's better that way and it will save you some trouble. ;)

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Comment # 8 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2011-04-09T13:56:47.000Z:

Ok then :-)

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Comment # 9 originally posted by [e-mail] on 2011-04-09T20:18:03.000Z:

Personally I prefer not rename the roms, if the roms are named with goodgen I prefer to not touch the romname. I think that goodsms, googg and goodgen don't use the same rom names.

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Comment # 10 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2011-04-11T07:38:48.000Z:

I'd advise using No-Intro romset rather than goodgen which have too many uneeded, mislabelled and modified ROMS.

For Master System, I use SMS Checker naming convention and no Master System games share the same name as no-intro Mega Drive ones. http://www.smspower.org/maxim/Software/SMSChecker

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Comment # 11 originally posted by [e-mail] on 2011-04-13T19:47:44.000Z:

I use goodxxx because I used it for years, but I delete the bad dumps, overdumps, trainers etc and goodgen converts all roms to bin authomaticly. SMS checker looks good too. There are TOSEC sets too for SEGA consoles..

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Comment # 12 originally posted by kingofchaos6669 on 2011-04-14T15:30:14.000Z:

Yeah, I'd highly recommend the No-Intro set as well. :)

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Comment # 13 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2011-09-29T13:05:13.000Z: