Certain ROM/Cheat loads delete Cheat files

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Used Sonic the Hedgehog Rom or Altered Beast Rom
2.Have cheat file in folder with matching name
3.Load ROM, then load cheat, no cheats in list, and deletes cheat file from SD 
card

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would expect to see the cheat list.  I see no cheats and the .pat is missing 
from the SD card

What version of the emulator are you using (official, SVN revision,...)? 1.6.0- 
also occurred in 1.5

Please provide any additional information below (Video settings, Console
region,...) None

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cramer1...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2011 at 2:15

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I can send the particular ROM and pat files being used if necessary.  Does not 
occur for all games.  Strider, Strider 2, and Golden Axe are other examples.  
Decap Attack, Sonic 2, Golden Axe 2 and 3 work fine.

Original comment by cramer1...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2011 at 2:18

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Please upload your non-working .pat files here.

If file format is incoorect, the emulator will assume there are no cheat codes 
in that file and indeed delete the file (because you can also delete entries 
from the menu). I agree this is maybe not very good since it would delete any 
wrongly formatted patch files but there you got your explanation.

Original comment by ekeeke31@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2011 at 10:14

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Thanks for the explanatioN and for taking a look at these.  Is there some way 
for it not to delete the file?  I mean, at least if it was there I could look 
into the format issue.

Thanks!

Original comment by cramer1...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2011 at 11:27

Attachments:

• [Altered Beast (REV 01) (JU) [!].pat](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/genplus-gx/issue-187/comment-3/Altered Beast %28REV 01%29 %28JU%29 [!].pat)
• [Golden Axe (JU) (REV 00) [!].pat](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/genplus-gx/issue-187/comment-3/Golden Axe %28JU%29 %28REV 00%29 [!].pat)
• [Strider (USA, Europe).pat](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/genplus-gx/issue-187/comment-3/Strider %28USA, Europe%29.pat)
• [Sonic the Hedgehog (UE) [!].pat](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/genplus-gx/issue-187/comment-3/Sonic the Hedgehog %28UE%29 [!].pat)

[GoogleCodeExporter]

First file has a '?' mark in it, the emulator cannot handle this for you, you 
need to replace it with a correct value. Note that this is a cheat file for the 
Master System version, see notes below.

All those files are cheat codes for Master System or Game Gear, not Genesis, 
they need to be put in the correct folder (/cheats/ms or /cheats/gg). 

Correct format for Genesis is XXXXXX:YYYY (Action replay) or AAAA-BBBB (Game 
Genie), as described in the user manual. 

I will modify the emulator so it doesn't delete the file when no valid cheat 
codes are found, it's safer.

Original comment by ekeeke31@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2011 at 12:03

• Changed state: Invalid

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Thanks for the response, that makes sense.  When will the update be?  Will it 
be a batch update?

Original comment by cramer1...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2011 at 4:30

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There is no release scheduling plan so I can't tell you when next update will 
be or what will be included, if that is what you mean by "batch". 

Anyway, you don't need an update: the solution to your problem is to use valid 
cheat code files and to put them in the correct system subfolder, as explained 
in the user manual. This way, they won't be deleted.

Original comment by ekeeke31@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2011 at 7:54

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All is well and thanks for the great work you do.

Original comment by cramer1...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2011 at 11:30