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Tiger-Heli:
AFAIK, Q-bert saves high scores in NVRAM.

I don't know why it would lose the NVRAM unless either:

1) You updated to a later version of MAME.

2) You accidentally reset the game (F3).
bigredsk10:
Nope, haven't done either of those things.

There isn't a shift key function on the ipac to reset is there? Maybe thats being hit by accident. I think I would notice if the game reset on me though.
Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: bigredsk10 on April 18, 2007, 03:40:40 pm ---There isn't a shift key function on the ipac to reset is there? Maybe thats being hit by accident. I think I would notice if the game reset on me though.

--- End quote ---
Not by default.

I believe Centiped only saves the first 3 high scores to NVRAM, even though ten are listed, so if you use a build without high-score support, the last 7 scores are lost.  This is correct behavior according to MAME, so not really documented.  Perhaps Q-bert is the same, if it is only the lower scores you are losing.

Also found this on MAWS about Q-bert:

--- Quote ---The first time you run the game, you should go into service mode, select 4. Options/Parameters with key F1, reset the High Score Table to have the high score table properly initialized.
--- End quote ---


But I don't think I have ever done this, so don't know that it matters.
bigredsk10:
Thats interesting, I'll try that. Thanks for looking that up for me. I'll see if the scores last now.

In the meantime I've got a white board to write the score on.
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