Hiscores no longer working after a groovymame upgrade

[Wilb]

I'm running a GroovyArcade installation that has been rock solid for a few years, but I recently upgraded groovymame to fix the audio on Qbert and I've just realised that hiscores are no longer working. I initially upgraded to 225, but have now just moved to 227.

Reading back over some changelogs,I can see that hiscore.dat no longer resides in the "hi" folder - so have moved it up into the arcade homedir. This doesn't seem to have helped though... Similarly I've tried putting it in /usr/local/bin alongside the groovymame binary - but also no luck.

If I look in the "plugins" menu within GroovyArcade I can't see any options for a hiscore plugin - but I'm not actually sure whether I used to see them...

One other odd thing I've noticed since upgrading is that the "this game may not be emulated properly" nag warning screens have come back, and cabinet artwork has started to be displayed on screen for vertical games like pacman and qbert. This is potentially making me think my mame.ini might not be being read? 

Any thoughts or help would be appreciated!

[haynor666]

plugin.ini should look inside like this

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#
# PLUGINS OPTIONS
#
autofire                  0
cheat                     0
cheatfind                 0
console                   0
data                      1
discord                   0
dummy                     0
gdbstub                   0
hiscore                   1
json                      0
layout                    0
portname                  0
timer                     0
SLAXML                    0
Additionally You need latest plugins folder from official mame distribution. Tested with Ufo Robot Dangar on windows 10 but should work on linux as well.

[Substring]

Hiscores work on my version of GroovyArcade, dunno about VeS' version.

What's your source for linux GM binaries ? If it's from Calamity's repo, he asked me not to add the nonag patch since people should know if ROMs have emulation lacks before asking for help.

[Wilb]

Yeah they're official builds, so nonag has probably just been disabled since the version I was running previously...

Updating plugins from the official mame distribution might be the thing I'm missing - not touched that, just been pulling the latest groovymame binary - will give that a look now.

[Wilb]

Updating the plugins to match the groovymame version has indeed fixed it - an obvious one with hindsight, thanks!