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Fyrecrypts:
That's the idea, being able to share the scores. I thought about having it share the .hi files, as that's easy, but if two people are playing at the same time, one person's file would probably overwrite the other, losing the score. This just won't do.
My idea is to do two major things, upload new hi scores to a webserver, and two, take the top scores and recreate the .hi file for anybody with this application, and access to the webserver I specify. No hi scores will ever be lost, and they will be updated whenever someone contributes a new score.
Edit: Yeah, in this case the hiscore.dat file is pretty much useless, except to get some hints about how to parse and recreate the .hi file for each game.
retrometro:
I'm definitely interested in an app that can run reports of high scores. It'll be a lot of work to decipher scores from each game but once that happens, I can see how it can be extended to lots of things. For example, it would be great to see the top score(s) through a FE like MALA as you browse your games... or a report ran after your FE shutsdown so that upon boot the top scores of your favorite games are displayed.
NOP:
--- Quote from: Fyrecrypts on August 22, 2008, 02:28:34 pm ---By the way, I'm more than willing to share my code when it becomes more useful, right now it's just a few very hardcoded functions.
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what are you writing in? Should help from me come in the form of just deciphering the .hi files, or do you want code written to do the work? I'm pretty much a C++ programmer only. (well, unless you want to work in x86 assembly, but I doubt that!)
Since this is on a per game basis, we might as well get the most wanted games sorted out first-I suspect not too many people want to share hi scores in Dockman or Disco #1, so can you post your "gotta haves" list?
Fyrecrypts:
Well, I've already done a lot of the coding in C#, so I'll probably just do that.
I think getting help with just deciphering the .hi files would be just fine, no need for it to be in code. =)
I also found that I was wrong with some of my scores above, it's not just TOP... I was very tired that morning I guess. I've attached the screenshots of the scores. It looks like they'll be easier to decode than I had originally thought.
Edit: As for games we should decipher first, I'm thinking the classics really: Donkey Kong, QBert, Pac Man, Ms Pac Man, Joust, etc...
nullb0y:
So heres my big idea
Have a server that holds the highest scores
have a script that downloads the scores compares to yours and uploads yours if they are higher
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