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g3rg:

Yeah, thats another thing to worry about, so I guess my plan for that was again the leagues idea and only sharing your scores with people you trust. It could never really be used for 'World Wide Master' kinda of high scores, you would still need a third party to verify you hadnt cheated etc for that sort of thing.

jerryjanis:

The method used at marp.retrogames.com is pretty neat.  A high score submission has to be accompanied by the recorded input file.  The input file serves as proof.  It should cover most bases, including the difficulty setting and using cheat modes.  (And the replays are fun to watch!)

(I'm not really suggesting that you incorporate this, I'm just mentioning it because it's related to the topic.)

Jakobud:

When the data is uploaded to the server, can't you just have it also upload whether or not Mame had cheating enabled while playing?

jerryjanis:

I wonder if it would be reasonable to create a generic xml format for storing high score data which would cover all or most games?    Once that was done and made to work together with Mame it would be easy to get it to communicate with a website or any other applications somebody wanted to build.


bigmoe:


--- Quote from: jerryjanis on February 04, 2004, 05:22:36 pm ---I wonder if it would be reasonable to create a generic xml format for storing high score data which would cover all or most games?    Once that was done and made to work together with Mame it would be easy to get it to communicate with a website or any other applications somebody wanted to build.


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Great idea.  Such an XML format could also serve to make the info more discrete -- I only have to update the games I care about -- and also serve to add functionality -- like saving initials in games that don't normally save initials.  This format, and the discrete nature in which records could be updated, would go a long way to making the client-server traffic more reasonable in processing speed and bandwidth, and if cleverly enough done, would lend itself well to reall dbms use for the management of it.

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