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I'm using RetroPie as my retro videogame at home(using Recalbox as for today, but I still have a sdcard with RetroPie for thinkering). Default emulator is lr-mame2003 and it is pretty well integrated with EmulationStation(the graphical frontend).

What I want to know is, and I found no tips at the documentation: Is there a way to create a credit limit per game reset to somehow "emulate" inside mame the continue behavior of cartidge games? I want to limit Sunset Riders to 3 credits per game reset for example.

Someone could ask "why not play the Snes/Genesis version of this game then?". Well, that is because we are doing a party with old friends from my childhood, and it will be more fun to play 4 players arcade version than just the 2 player video game version. And it will not be that fun if putting credits is an unlimited action.

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And it will not be that fun if putting credits is an unlimited action.

I had the same problem with my RetroPie cabinet. To solve this I devised a joystick system with an integrated credit counter. The system disables the insert coin buttons unless credits are available and includes a little challenge that must be won in order to obtain them. The challenge is the Simon Says electronic game created by Ralph Baer and Howard J. Morrison in 1978. As in the original Simon game there are several skill levels. The number of credits obtained when the game is won will depend on the selected skill level. You can see the project at hackster.io and github.com. You can also see a video demo at youtu.be. enter image description here

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No such feature exists, though I guess a skilled programmer could add something like that to the MAME source code. Since the purpose of MAME is to preserve the games in their original state, I doubt such a feature will ever be added to the official MAME release.

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