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Shared High Score.dat?
g3rg:
Good ideas... hadnt thought of the each players top score idea... One plan I had was when 2 files are received, say each with 5 scores, then merged into 1 file, with 10 scores, we would then keep that list, but spitting out the file with the 5 top scores that the mame hiscore stuff understands. So with your idea you could have it both ways, your front end / web page could show both the top scores and then each indiviplayers hi-scores.
The plan at the moment is to work mostly on the file reading, we have a java app that allows 'plugins' for new game readers, so at least this would allow the central repositry of hi scores, just doesnt spit it back into mame yet, but would be fine for front ends.
I know I said it before, but what I really would like is the list of games that people think would be best to add first, i.e. what games people would want to compete against each other for hi score...
RetroBorg:
--- Quote from: g3rg on February 03, 2004, 05:42:45 am ---I know I said it before, but what I really would like is the list of games that people think would be best to add first, i.e. what games people would want to compete against each other for hi score...
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1942 seems like a good place to start, here is a quick list of ones I would like to compete at:
1942 (set 1)
Amidar
Asteroids
Asteroids Deluxe (rev 2)
Berzerk (set 1)
Bomb Jack (set 1)
Canyon Bomber
Centipede (rev 3)
Circus Charlie (no level select)
Crazy Kong (set 1)
Defender (Red Label)
Dig Dug (set 1)
Elevator Action
Frogger
Galaga (Namco)
Galaxian (Namco set 1)
Gyruss
Joust (White/Green label)
Juno First
Missile Command (set 1)
Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu)
Moon Patrol
Mr. Do! (Universal)
New Rally X
Pac-Man (Midway)
Phoenix (Amstar)
Pinball Action
Rally X
Scramble
Space Invaders
Tempest (rev 3)
Time Pilot
Track and Field
g3rg:
Ive done:
005, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 19xx, acrobatm,
aerofgt, aliens, armwar, assault, asteroid, avsp,
badlands, blktiger, bublbobl, captaven, cyberlip, dino
ffight, frogger, galaga, ghouls, gng, sf2, sf2ce, sfa, sfa2
sfa3, sonicwi2, sonicwi3, spang, tmnt, uopoko, yard
and my friend has done a handful of others but I havent got the list on me at the moment. Thanks for the list, its good motivation to have other people interested...
RetroBorg:
What would be really nice if someone was able to hack some of the games that just showed the top score e.g. galaxian - no initials and made it so it could keep the top ten scores with initials.
g3rg:
I think thats starting to get into dreamland... would be good yes, but reverse engineering the roms on those old games and rewriting sections of it is definitely out of my league... about the best i could do would be have the hi score reader know about games without initials and when you upload your file it appends your initials to it, but then would have to disable writing of hiscores from it for obvious reasons.
Just went and looked at my code, the game I was working on the writer for was 1941 and the merge is not quite working properly, forgot I gave up after an hour or so, but will try and get to it this weekend.
A lot of the games I have done were either ones I play a lot (mpatrol, galaga, sf2), were chosen randomly, or, as is the case for all 19x games, I did 1942 and just worked around that area.