"MAME appears to have cheats enabled." For High Scores

[mralbert35]

I've been trying to take advantage of the high score feature, but the scores don't show up in the leaderboard. I attached the log file to this post, and it shows: "PM Aborting MameHighScores.Parse: MAME appears to have cheats enabled."

I did previously have cheats enabled in Mame (never really used them though), and I've been trying to disable them. I even did a new Mame install and ensured that the cheat plugin was disabled and deleted the cheat folder. I attached both the mame.ini and default.cfg settings files to this post.

Any ideas as to what is triggering the anti-cheat? I do enjoy checking out the high scores in Big Box before playing a game to see how I'm doing against the community, but I would love to participate and see my name on some of the leaderboards.

mame.ini default.cfg Debug 2022-11-04 01-28-27 PM.log

[mralbert35]

I was able to fix the issue. When doing a new install of Mame, I still carried over some configuration files. There must have been a setting somewhere that made launchbox think cheats were enabled. It was a bit of a pain manually re-doing all the inputs/video settings, but high scores are now uploading.