HiScore Lua

[Chappie]

Does mame still have to be compiled with hiscore support for this new LUA process?

Steve

[Goalies Rule]

Interestingly I was just dealing with this over the weekend since I hadn't updated mame in a few years.

It does not need compliled. It's just an option you enable under the plugins setting in mame

[Titchgamer]

Cheers, I was looking at this myself earlier today and couldnt work out what the hell I was meant to do!!

[PhoneLine]

I've updated my mame to 181 but can't seem to get the hiscore working. 

I have hiscore set to 1 in my plugins.ini file and the newest hiscore.dat is in the plugins/hiscore directory, but games are not saving the hiscores.

Any clue what I may be missing?

Thanks,

[Chappie]

That is exactly my problem from 0.146 to 0.181. Extracted the latest hiscore file into /plugins folder which created a hiscore folder with 4 files (3 lua's and the .dat). Edited mame.ini to include plugins=1, plugin=hiscore and autoboot_delay=0. Created a hi folder in root mame. NOTHING!

Steve

[Titchgamer]

I may be wrong but only certain games support it I believe.

Have you tried with one of the games listed under the hiscore list on the left?

[Chappie]

I tried it with a game that previously saved hiscores when I was running mame 0.146.

[Chappie]

Try this...if you copied the new mame 0.181 into an existing folder structure...delete your .cfg and nvram files from your previous version of mame and try again to get hiscore saves...

Steve

[crazyc]

First, don't replace the hiscore.dat, the one that comes with mame is up to date.  Second, start the game selector UI, scroll down to Plugins and make sure the hiscore plugin in enabled there.  You can also try running it with the "-plugins -plugin hiscore" options.

[pofo14]

I too am having problems getting this to work.  Upgraded from an older MAME (.151) to .181, and also just tried .182 but have the same issue. 

I have
plugins.ini -->
hiscore set to 1
mame.ini -->
pulgins set to 1
plugin set to hiscore

I have put the hi folder in the mame root, plugin root, and plugin/hiscore folder no luck.

I also tried starting mame with the command line parameters referenced and that doesn't work either.  When I check the plugin setting from the UI it is enabled as well.

[crazyc]

If you run mame with the -verbose option you'll get some output indicating whether the hiscore dat and file are found.