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GroovyMAME 0.227 - Switchres v0.017t
lacanian:
Good timing. For the last hour (includes playing games to achieve a high score) I have been trying to work out the hiscores! Here is what I know.
1. You need to download the latest hiscores.date file from http://highscore.mameworld.info/download.htm
Why? (from http://www.mameworld.info/highscore/latest.htm )
--- Code: ---23.07.2016
Released new hiscore.dat using the new format that is supported in the official mame using the hiscore plugin. Please note as from now the older pre-July 2016 hiscore.dat files will not work with any mame files older than mame v0174 (25 may 2016).
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Just adding hiscores.dat to the hi directory that didn't work for me. As you know in mame.ini for v0.176 there are no options for hiscore.
However if you load the MAME executable can go to Configure Options -> Configure Directories there are two directories that caught my eye.
1. DATs
2. Scores
I put hiscores.dat in both of them and made sure the path was correct and nothing. I have only tried one game and am about to test some more as I read not all games support hiscores hoever, the posts I read were discussing older versions of MAME.
Try what I did above and let me know how you go. We should be able to solve this one. I'm off to do a bit more searching.
lacanian:
I just did a diff on the hiscore.dat in the plugins folder vs the hiscore.dat from mamewold.info and here is the aditional text in the mameworld.info dat file
--- Code: ---;**** new additions using mame v176 below ****
ffantasyj:
@:maincpu,program,ffbe00,50,08,01
rdft2jb:
@:maincpu,program,285dc,1ab,01,2e
bubbletr:
@:maincpu,program,106970,278,01,01
bubbletrj:
@:maincpu,program,10698c,278,01,01
;beastf:******beastie feastie (fixed)
beastf:
@:maincpu,program,7010,f0,00,00
@:maincpu,program,798a,1,fc,fc
;**** mame v176 additions end ****
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RobeeJ:
My cabinet is off atm so I can't check the exact config changes you need, but from memory you need to do the following:
* Put the latest hiscore.dat in your mame root folder
* Turn on using plugins in the config file (mame -cc will generate a config with this line in it, can't remember it's exact name)
* Add hiscore to the enabled plugins line in the config file (again can't remember, on my macbook which doesn't have mame on it)
That's it, if I remember rightly! No need to go into the mame menu. Most of your previous hi scores in your hi folder should be restored on game launch.
lacanian:
MAME definitely changes every time I look at it. Now we have plugins and it appears the config for enabling them is the below.
-pluginspath path to plugin files
-plugins enable LUA plugin support
-plugin list of plugins to enable
-noplugin list of plugins to disable
--- Code: ---plugins 1
plugin hiscore
noplugin
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Let me know if that does the trick.
lacanian:
--- Quote from: RobertJ on August 27, 2016, 04:01:48 am ---My cabinet is off atm so I can't check the exact config changes you need, but from memory you need to do the following:
* Put the latest hiscore.dat in your mame root folder
* Turn on using plugins in the config file (mame -cc will generate a config with this line in it, can't remember it's exact name)
* Add hiscore to the enabled plugins line in the config file (again can't remember, on my macbook which doesn't have mame on it)
That's it, if I remember rightly! No need to go into the mame menu. Most of your previous hi scores in your hi folder should be restored on game launch.
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Thanks I wish I had seen this earlier. It looks like you don't need step 1 anymore as MAME is shipping with hiscore.dat in the plugins folder. I just did some testing and it worked fine without it in the root folder.
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