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Fyrecrypts:
--- Quote from: kernelpanic on September 10, 2010, 08:10:58 am ---here are 2 files that I created using hiToText
dorunrun is the largest one I've found so far - the pacman one is shown as some games are not supported in the XML file and generated this type of txt file
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Very odd, pacman is supported, I'll have to look at why it isn't being called correctly. Definitely a bug.
Also, you may want to look at a game like track and field, which has "alternate" scores such as top 4 in 100m dash in addition to a traditional hi score table. As for largest, I would think Crystal Castles is the largest at the moment. Saves 300 individual scores.
kernelpanic:
--- Quote from: Fyrecrypts on September 10, 2010, 09:02:49 am ---Very odd, pacman is supported, I'll have to look at why it isn't being called correctly. Definitely a bug.
Also, you may want to look at a game like track and field, which has "alternate" scores such as top 4 in 100m dash in addition to a traditional hi score table. As for largest, I would think Crystal Castles is the largest at the moment. Saves 300 individual scores.
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Maybe I'm not doing things right. I downloaded the hiToText.exe and XML files - crammed them into the hi folder under MAME, and my MAME batch file runs it on the game just completed and saves the output to a file named .txt for that rom. All I ever get with pacman is that "not supported" error.
300 is very overkill - dorunrun's saving of 50 is way overkill too - IMHO - 5, maybe 10 seems adequate to me. But I'm a ole pinhead and only used to a top 5, so that may be the problem :dunno
loadman:
--- Quote from: kernelpanic on September 10, 2010, 08:10:58 am ---that didn't work for me - left/right keys do nothing and the space bar seems to auto repeat but not access all the screens.
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Did you reallocate the keys?
By default left and right will be the same
--- Quote ---This does allow me to specify a type of "Hi Score" - where do those text files need to be? in a particular folder?
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Nothing ...yet
It's just a dummy display. I was after feedback and demo .hi files before I proceeded
kernelpanic:
--- Quote from: loadman on September 10, 2010, 10:15:44 am ---
Did you reallocate the keys?
By default left and right will be the same
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:facepalm
yeah sorry, that fixes that - I feel so DOH
I included some .txt files that are made by capturing the hiToText output when it processes the .hi file
Here's a zip file with some random .hi files in it
kernelpanic:
--- Quote from: loadman on September 10, 2010, 10:15:44 am ---
--- Quote ---This does allow me to specify a type of "Hi Score" - where do those text files need to be? in a particular folder?
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Nothing ...yet
It's just a dummy display. I was after feedback and demo .hi files before I proceeded
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After playing with this idea more, my suggestion would be just looking for a .txt file of the %rom% name in the mame folder for hi scores - if the hi folder does not exist, or the %rom%.txt file does not exist, then just ignore that page. BUt I don't know your code and how it's designed, so may be way off base with that idea.
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