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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #40 on: September 11, 2010, 09:17:51 am »

And please get a avitar, your naked!  :laugh2:


happy now?  mwahahahaha  :lol Capt. Quark from the Ratchet and Clank franchise - he's such a  :censored:, lol

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The reason is MaLa expects a real exe to be there when it tried to creat a mame.ini (if missing) or a mame.xml if missing

ok, that's cool

I can write whatever batch commands we need, but if I read all this correctly, it's a single command called from the hi folder which by design should be subordinate to the MAME folder and you know where that is.

hitotext -ra %rom% > %rom%.txt

but it may need to be wrapped in a BAT file to take advantage of the redirection from stdout to the .txt file



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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #41 on: September 11, 2010, 09:31:44 am »
ok, so this uses a mala/hi folder - that's cool. will take some minor tweaks to the BAT file

Works great though  :cheers:  :applaud: :applaud:

tabbing/formatting is going to be a real bear - look at this wrally file

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #42 on: September 11, 2010, 09:40:09 am »
I modified the prelim guide posted higher up in this thread

1) removed references to MAME.BAT and changes to the MaLa config for that

2) added a step to create a hi folder subordinate to MaLa

3) I'm not sure where you want the BAT file to be, but for now, I placed it in the MaLa/hi folder


In the end, it looks like you could just create the BAT file on the fly since you know where MAME/hi is and you know where MaLa/hi is. That would remove any requirement for users to even write the BAT file and avoid confusion on PATHS etc.

Could even just look for MAME/hi when MaLa is started for the first time (when the .ini file is missing) and then make sure that MaLa/hi is created/exists

This could be real bulletproof
« Last Edit: September 11, 2010, 09:45:44 am by kernelpanic »

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #43 on: September 11, 2010, 10:09:01 am »
OK.   ;D

It's bedtime in Oz (Australia)

I will work on this Project more tomorrow  :cheers:

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #44 on: September 11, 2010, 10:56:12 pm »
OK.   ;D

It's bedtime in Oz (Australia)

I will work on this Project more tomorrow  :cheers:

Well I will fix bug(s) in the 'Most Played Games' section first  ;)

I think I squashed them  ???
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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #45 on: September 14, 2010, 06:41:01 am »
In the end, it looks like you could just create the BAT file on the fly since you know where MAME/hi is and you know where MaLa/hi is. That would remove any requirement for users to even write the BAT file and avoid confusion on PATHS etc.

Could even just look for MAME/hi when MaLa is started for the first time (when the .ini file is missing) and then make sure that MaLa/hi is created/exists

This could be real bulletproof

True, How about we start by MaLa calling the bat file on game quit for now until we iron any bugs out.

Try this version which is hard coded to run hi.bat on game quit (if in the subfolder hi)


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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #46 on: September 14, 2010, 10:28:37 am »

Try this version which is hard coded to run hi.bat on game quit (if in the subfolder hi)



Ok, it calls the hi.bat file but something is missing. I get a file name ".txt" - are you passing the %ROM% value as a parameter to hi.bat?

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #47 on: September 14, 2010, 06:45:56 pm »
d'oh!

Nope  ;D

I will fix

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #48 on: September 14, 2010, 06:47:32 pm »
 ::)  

I'm glad to know I'm not the only that programs like that, lol

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #49 on: September 15, 2010, 07:35:33 am »
Try This

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #50 on: September 15, 2010, 08:13:59 am »
Try This


so far so good - I'll test it more in the coming hours.
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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #51 on: September 17, 2010, 09:51:16 pm »
Try This


so far so good - I'll test it more in the coming hours.

My plan is to leave it in MaLa like that for a month or so.

Then based on the feedback of yourself (and others if they have tested it) mod MaLa's way it handles 'After Game Quit' actions. Config?  Bat File or direct commands? etc

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #52 on: September 17, 2010, 10:15:57 pm »
Try This


so far so good - I'll test it more in the coming hours.

My plan is to leave it in MaLa like that for a month or so.

Then based on the feedback of yourself (and others if they have tested it) mod MaLa's way it handles 'After Game Quit' actions. Config?  Bat File or direct commands? etc

well, this is working fine as is - I see no reason to spend further time on it  :cheers:

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #53 on: November 30, 2010, 05:56:41 am »
Then, what must i do to show my games's record in MALA? :dunno

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #54 on: November 30, 2010, 07:49:54 pm »

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #55 on: December 03, 2010, 05:44:18 pm »
Thanks loadman.

I'll take a look!

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #56 on: December 03, 2010, 06:12:07 pm »
Loadman,

I've downloaded hitotext.exe and I get an error 0xc0000135. I run hitotext.ext -ra wrally > wrally.txt and i get the same error.

Is this normal?

Thanks

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #57 on: December 03, 2010, 06:25:25 pm »
you might be better off asking about that over in the software forum

Loadman,

I've downloaded hitotext.exe and I get an error 0xc0000135. I run hitotext.ext -ra wrally > wrally.txt and i get the same error.

Is this normal?

Thanks

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #58 on: December 03, 2010, 06:53:20 pm »
you might be better off asking about that over in the software forum

Loadman,

I've downloaded hitotext.exe and I get an error 0xc0000135. I run hitotext.ext -ra wrally > wrally.txt and i get the same error.

Is this normal?

Thanks

Indeed. There is a thread here:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=83614.0

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #59 on: December 12, 2010, 03:06:25 pm »
I've read various post and it doesn't work.
Loadman, have you tried?

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #60 on: December 12, 2010, 04:01:00 pm »
I've read various post and it doesn't work.
Loadman, have you tried?

Did you compile the custom version of MAME that has the hiscore and no nag hacks?

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #61 on: December 12, 2010, 06:02:42 pm »
I've used a compiled version! That version downloaded from internet.

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #62 on: January 09, 2011, 09:24:30 am »
I've used a compiled version! That version downloaded from internet.

havent a clue how to do this :(

is there a compiled 0.141 version yet??

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also: on reading i saw this hi/ project.... I just need a simple/primative system. I created a folder called hi and then a file called dkong3.txt and typed a score... this now display in the info panel (alt) on mala is there a g_?*?*? command to load this on the main screen??
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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #63 on: January 18, 2011, 04:36:46 pm »
I've been lurking watching this develop, and I'd like to chime in that I think it's a great idea.

It would be cool to have a 'pinball-like marquee' displaying the current highscores in the games. While I have little to contribute, you've got my endorsment!  :applaud:

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #64 on: August 15, 2013, 09:59:14 am »
Thank you VERY Much loadman, kernelpanic and Fyrecrypts!
   it´s working nicely with latest Mala version (MaLa 1.745) and Shmupmame 4.2 (best Mame version ever ;)).
   There is still some games without HiToText support (Q*bert, Quix, RallyX...) but I´m very happy with the working ones!

   I´m thinking in some formatting program (like sed or awk for windows) to include in the "bat" file and obtain a better looking output (first target: aligned columns)


Thank you very much!

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #65 on: January 15, 2015, 03:01:49 pm »
Hi everone!
   I´ve been testing the Hi2Text program (at last) and I have a question about how M.A.L.A. proccess the text input from hiscores.
The Hi2Text output format is just a <string>"|"<string> sequence but I really don´t understand how M.A.L.A reads this file and generates it´s output.
Some Hiscores lines get center aligned, others seem to be left aligned, etc.

   I tried pre-formatting the HiScore output before M.A.L.A reads the file but I´ve got no success.

   Is there any formatting options or configuration to make the M.A.L.A. Hiscore output prettier?


Thank you in advance!

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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #66 on: April 05, 2015, 03:34:23 am »
Just wanted to throw in a thanks to you guys too.  Between this thread and a few others I figured out my issues with getting Hitotext to work the way I wanted in Mala via a batch file that does a few other things.
I'll show ya the batch file I use to launch the different Mame Versions and do the hitotext stuff.
Also, just for reference (I know it was mentioned earlier, but here it is again) the directory that the texts are read from should be in "<WHATEVER YOUR MALA FOLDER IS CALLED>\hi".
I must have skimmed over that like 3 or 4 times trying to find out where it was before I actually read it.
Anyway, here's my batch file, maybe someone will find it useful.

===================================================================
if "%2" == "C:\Emulator\mameinst\roms\MAME145" goto mame145
if "%2" == "C:\Emulator\mameinst\roms\MAME156" goto mame156
if "%2" == "C:\Emulator\mameinst\roms\MAME143" goto mame143
if "%2" == "C:\Emulator\mameinst\roms\MAME140" goto mame140
if "%2" == "C:\Emulator\mameinst\roms\MAME146" goto mame146

mame.exe %1
del C:\Emulator\MaLa174\MaLa174\hi\%1.txt
cd\Emulator\mameinst\hi
HiToText.exe -r C:\Emulator\mameinst\hi\%1.hi >> C:\Emulator\MaLa174\MaLa174\hi\%1.txt
exit


:mame146
cd\Emulator\altmame\Mame146
mame.exe %1
del C:\Emulator\MaLa174\MaLa174\hi\%1.txt
cd\Emulator\mameinst\hi
HiToText.exe -r C:\Emulator\mameinst\hi\%1.hi >> C:\Emulator\MaLa174\MaLa174\hi\%1.txt
exit

:mame145
cd\Emulator\altmame\Mame145
mame.exe %1
exit

:mame156
cd\Emulator\altmame\Mame156
mame.exe %1
del C:\Emulator\MaLa174\MaLa174\hi\%1.txt
cd\Emulator\mameinst\hi
HiToText.exe -r C:\Emulator\mameinst\hi\%1.hi >> C:\Emulator\MaLa174\MaLa174\hi\%1.txt
exit

:mame143
cd\Emulator\altmame\Mame143
mame.exe %1
exit

:mame140
cd\Emulator\altmame\Mame140
mame.exe %1
exit
=====================================================================

Don't forget to set up the %1 and %2 stuff in Mame tab in Mala config.  I also edited the mame.ini for each version of mame I use to write the High Scores to the same directory.

If someone else posted the same kind of thing, I'm not trying to take credit for anyone else's ideas, I'm just trying to put a bunch of the info in one place because I had to do alot of looking/modifying to get all the info put together and working for myself. 

I've got my cab working about 99% the way I want thanks to this board.
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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #67 on: September 24, 2018, 01:53:29 pm »
Hi!
I´ve been following the development of the "hi2txt.exe", and I´d like to ask for a new MALA version that could interpret some special characters in the hi-score text files, like the spaces " " and the tabs "\n".

The actual MALA beta version only interpret the "|" character for a fixed number of spaces (three spaces)...It wouldn´t be hard to implement this new requirement so MALA would just read the hi-score file and write it to the screen.

Any user could add a post-processing command line (per example gwak, seds and the likes) to format the hi-score text file giving everyone the freedom to print it in any required way.

Would it be done in a new version?  :dunno  :dunno


And one more question...I don´t know if I am using it right...this is the screen I´ve got:



What are those "xxxxxxxx" in the image? Is there a way to avoid them?
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Re: Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
« Reply #68 on: March 04, 2020, 10:55:20 am »
Looks like the hitotext.com site has been down for a while. 

I managed to find a copy on GitHub or sourceforge.  Is anyone else using this for MaLa?
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