1. Who are the Ultimate Patchers?
2. What's New with the cheat file
3. Download the latest Ultimate Patchers cheat file
4. Email the Ultimate Patchers

1. Who and what are the Ultimate Patchers?

1. About The Ultimate Patchers

3 French persons :

- JCK (28 years old girl) :
* arcade games knowledge : good
* arcade games "how to play" : average
* flippers knowledge : weak
* flippers "how to play" : desesperately weak !
* C coding : good (she's the main coder of MAME's cheat engine)
* assembly languages known : none

- Steph (31 years old guy) :
* arcade games knowledge : strong (he was a game-tester from 87 to 91)
* arcade games "how to play" : good
* flippers knowledge : average
* flippers "how to play" : average
* C coding : average
* assembly languages known : Z80

- Doctor Flip (29 years old guy) :
* arcade games knowledge : average
* arcade games "how to play" : very good
* flippers knowledge : strong (he was repairing them from 91 to 93)
* flippers "how to play" : very good !
* C coding : weak
* assembly languages known : 80x86 family
* other knowledge : electronics

Honorary members :

- Mac LAK (26 years old guy) :
* arcade games knowledge : weak
* arcade games "how to play" : excellent
* flippers knowledge : near zero
* flippers "how to play" : *below* zero
* C coding : pretty good (but he doesn't like it !)
* assembly languages known : 80x86 family (good), Z80 (average)
* other languages known : Pascal, Delphi, ADA
* other knowledge : European comic strip
* miscellaneous : his female siamese cat, named "Joystick"

Config :

- Compaq 486 SX-25 :
* OS : DOS 6.22, Windows 3.1
* floppy : 1.44 Mb
* hard drive capacity : 120 Mb
* RAM : 12 Mb
* graphic card : Tseng Lab ET/4000, 1 Mb
* sound card : SB16 Pro
* other stuff : IOMEGA-ZIP external drive
- IBM PS/2 Model 30 :
* OS : DOS 4.01
* floppy : 720 Kb
* hard drive capacity : 20 Mb
* RAM : 640 Kb
* graphic card : IBM MCGA
* sound card : SB16
* other stuff : none
 

2. About the cheat database

If you need an older cheat database, look at the CHEATLST.TXT file and send
us an e-mail ....
 

3. Other products

- Cheat databases :
* CHEATRNE : Arcade games (usable with RAINE 0.23)
* CHEATCPC : Amstrad/Schneider (usable with CPCEmu 1.4)
* CHEATCV : Colecovision (not usable with M.E.S.S. yet)
* CHEATGB : Gameboy (not finished yet)

- Cheat databases converters :
* MCDBC : converts M.A.M.E. cheat databases to new format according
to changes in the cheat engine - version 2.0 beta
* KIWIMAME : converts codes from NeoKiwi's cheat database to codes
usable by the cheat engine of M.A.M.E. - version 1.0 beta
* MAMERAIN : converts codes from M.A.M.E.'s cheat database to codes
usable by the cheat engine of RAINE - version 1.0 beta

4. Greetings

- Mac LAK (MacLAK@mail.dotcom.fr) for CheckCDB, cheat codes and code support
- Martin Pugh (pugsy AT gmx DOT net) for cheat codes and hosting our databases
- every people who have tested the cheat engine and/or sent us some cheats
- and of course all members of M.A.M.E. or other emu dev. team
 

5. Links

- cheat.retrogames.com : M.A.M.E. cheat-related homepage
- www.retrogames.com : emus-related homepage
- sys2064.emulationworld.com : emus-related homepage

2. What's New with the cheat file

19 APRIL 2001 Well it's been a long time in coming, but here it is the NEO-Free cheat database for MAME 0.36 FINAL. Let's hope that their next release with the MAME 0.37 cheats does quite take sooooo long. Don't forget you will be able to download newer WIP cheat files from the messageboard as they are made available. Download it from the download section.

23 MAY 2000 Uploaded the latest Unlimited credits cheat database, this cheat file will be a Work In Progress for some time so stay tuned. Download it from the download section.

18 MAY 2000 Added the Unlimited credits cheat database to this page, this cheat file is a Work In Progress - the only cheats it contains are for Infinite Credits! If you find any Infinite Credits cheats not already included in this cheat database then please email them to stephh@europe.com. This cheat file will be updated as and when.. You can download it from the download section.

01 AUGUST 1999 Here's the latest NEO-Free cheat database from the Ultimate Patchers the format of the cheat database has changed quite a lot on this release, so the numbering starts over from 1.00. Also you will find a lot of new cheats, it's now upto MAME 036 BETA 1 and there's cheats for another 56 games. As always you can download the latest cheat file from the download section.

17 JULY 1999 Well here's the latest cheat file from the Ultimate Patchers, I should have uploaded it a couple of days ago but I'm trying to limit my internet access to weekends now because it's free for me [Pugsy], so thanks Tim for the noticing and mentioning it! :-(. Anyway, here's the latest cheat file for MAME 0.35FINAL, lots of new cheats again! As always you can download the latest cheat file from the download section.

30 JUNE 1999 It's been a while since the Ultimate Patcher's last update, I'd like to wish JCK a speedy recovery. Anyway, here's their cheat database for RC2 as ever you will find lots of new cheats for all the games introduced in the last few releases. If anybody would like a cheat file for an old release of MAME then feel free to ask JCK at stephh@francemel.com. As always you can download the latest cheat file from the download section.

11 MAY 1999 Here is the cheat database version 8.2E for MAME 035B12. Another large update, this time you will find cheats for the games introduced by Beta 12. As always you can download the latest cheat file from the download section.

30 APR 1999 Here is the cheat database version 8.1E for MAME 035B11. Lots of new cheats this time _ since I missed uploading a few versions there even more new cheats then normal. As always you can download the latest cheat file from the download section.

09 APR 1999 Here is the cheat database version 8.0B for MAME 035B10 .... All games introduced in B10 covered except for:
DISCO, SHTNGMST and STARCRUS which are either "not working correctly" or have problems due to encryption. The database format has also changed with effect from B10, the linked cheats now use type 5** instead of 1**. This cheat database has been fixed for b10, the fixing program will be online later tonight or tomorrow. As always you can download the latest cheat file from the download section.

05 APR 1999 Here is the cheat database version 7.6E for MAME 035B9 .... Cheat codes for VANVAN(B) have been included, as well as some new ones I've been submitted, and some others that needed to be fixed ....As always you can download the latest cheat file from the download section.

31 MAR 1999 Today we've released version 7.6B of our cheat file which now contains cheats for the games introduced in MAME 0.35B9. We haven't found any codes for VANVAN(B) yet and I haven't tested the cheat engine with the Cinematronics game. As always you can download the latest cheat file from the download section.

3. Download the latest Ultimate Patchers cheat files

4. Email the Ultimate Patchers

If you have any cheats, cheat suggestions, require cheat files for older versions of MAME or questions about our cheat file or about the cheat engine then please email us at:-