Online Scoreboard

[icecube45]

Hello again!
Thanks to all the advice you guys have given me, I have set up an online scoreboard for my cabinet.
Its very primitive html right now, and I'm welcome to any help to develop it farther.

But here emulatron.zapto.org is the link, I'm just using a simple noip.com domain instead of buying one.


The process:
Made mame save highscores to dropbox
Had maximus arcade launch a bat at startup containing commands to delete the files, then write new .txt files off of the .hi files using HiToText
Linked the files (via dropbox) to the website.


Its a bit of a pain to add a new game, but it works!

-Ice

EDIT: would like to thank CoryBee and Scott for helping me prevent viruses by connecting the cab to the internet, and just general help

[CoryBee]

I was trying to find your thread the other day to no avail.

Does your system show the scoreboard online? Or does it just save the .hi files to the dropbox?

[icecube45]

I was trying to find your thread the other day to no avail.

Does your system show the scoreboard online? Or does it just save the .hi files to the dropbox?

I have it just save the .hi files to dropbox, then, on my web hosting computer, it links to the files that are in the dropbox

[CoryBee]

I was trying to find your thread the other day to no avail.

Does your system show the scoreboard online? Or does it just save the .hi files to the dropbox?

I have it just save the .hi files to dropbox, then, on my web hosting computer, it links to the files that are in the dropbox

So no actual scoreboard? I will keep messing with the HitoText.

[icecube45]

I was trying to find your thread the other day to no avail.

Does your system show the scoreboard online? Or does it just save the .hi files to the dropbox?

I have it just save the .hi files to dropbox, then, on my web hosting computer, it links to the files that are in the dropbox

Sorry! I misunderstood!
Visit the link I put up! It's the scoreboard.
I got hitotext to save to .txt files

So no actual scoreboard? I will keep messing with the HitoText.

[CoryBee]

I was trying to find your thread the other day to no avail.

Does your system show the scoreboard online? Or does it just save the .hi files to the dropbox?

I have it just save the .hi files to dropbox, then, on my web hosting computer, it links to the files that are in the dropbox

So no actual scoreboard? I will keep messing with the HitoText.

Sorry! I misunderstood!
Visit the link I put up! It's the scoreboard.
I got hitotext to save to .txt files

Can you explain how you went about this. A better interface for the site would do wonders and have the .txt file displayed as a page in itself instead of a link would look nice.

[icecube45]

I was trying to find your thread the other day to no avail.

Does your system show the scoreboard online? Or does it just save the .hi files to the dropbox?

I have it just save the .hi files to dropbox, then, on my web hosting computer, it links to the files that are in the dropbox

So no actual scoreboard? I will keep messing with the HitoText.

Sorry! I misunderstood!
Visit the link I put up! It's the scoreboard.
I got hitotext to save to .txt files

Can you explain how you went about this. A better interface for the site would do wonders and have the .txt file displayed as a page in itself instead of a link would look nice.

Yeah, I'm (semi) working on the interface
And I could only have it display directly on it if i had the files as .html files, but even then, the formatting would be screwed up, which is why I went with .txt on seperate links.

To write the files, just add a >>filenamehere.txt to then end of the command when u run HiToText via command line

[icecube45]

A better interface for the site would do wonders

Well, I just saw this "I would really appreciate it if you sent the code via PM. I do website design as well and could easily make something to house my projects.....but I wont turn down already finished works." - Cory Bee

On a different post,

If you wouldn't mind, I would love if you could rig up something simple for me...

Just anything better than What I have now XD

Don't bother yourself however, you have done a ton to help