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HiToText (Version 2010.11.4).
Fyrecrypts:
Apparently my notification e-mails weren't working for me very well. I have been very busy with personal life and another project, but I have no plans of stopping work on this one. Sorry if I worried anyone, there's just only so many ways to be pulled I guess. =)
I have an update with a lot of work from dna disturber, and a couple handlers via SourceForge. I have been meaning to get a particular update in that's a little complicated, but haven't found an elegant solution yet, so I may release with just the XML updates.
As for GHOST (Gaming Host for Online Score Tracking), it worked fairly well, but only under a very specific set of circumstances. It worked differently than HiScanner in that it read directly from memory to look for high scores instead of reading the file. This meant that high scores couldn't be manipulated from files, and it could save scores globally. Sort of a real-time Twin Galaxies with MAME. The problem I ran into that sort of stopped development was that depending on the version of MAME you used the memory "keys" that were used to track the actual scores while playing would or wouldn't exist. This meant I either had to force people to play a certain outdated version, or update the keys every time MAME changed for every single game, and then force everyone to only use the latest versions of MAME. It became a sort of impossible issue to resolve. =/
HiScanner read the .hi files and would import from other users as well, it was hard to configure, very user unfriendly, and has a very old code base now. It'd probably be smarter if I was going to startup HiScanner again to redo it. The code base for HiToText is open source, and I was hoping people would use it themselves to make other projects involving hi scores, but so far, only one team had. They were essentially making HiScanner using HiToText, but that was when I was working on GHOST. I think they abandoned the project when they heard about what GHOST was, which is too bad, I think we could have co-existed just fine.
Also, my daughter's doing fine, so is my son, thanks for asking. =) They are a handful though. Heh. =D
secret80sman:
FireCrypts,
Many thanks for the update, it is greatly appreciated. Also glad to hear the family is doing well mine are a handful as well.
I don't know about the community at large but I know if I had an app that allowed me to connect to my personal friends somehow I would be happy. We are mostly concerned with beating people's scores we now not world champions I would think (most of us who aren't amazing at any one game in particular). Any thought on how to EASILY do something like this perhaps blending the different apps so far developed?
I'm not a coder so although I appreciate your efforts I have no real world idea what is involved with this so just putting it out there.
Thanks!
dna disturber:
Instead of just randomly picking games maybe someone has a request ?
Is there a game in your favo list that doesn't have hitotext support.....and you want it to have.....
No nvram games please (because that's not gonna show up in hyperspin) and it must create a .hi file (in other words it already has an entry in hiscore.dat)
Dna Disturber :cheers:
Can't promise that i'll get it working but will do my best.... :angel:
When I do get it working it's gonna be in a future release of hitotext or you can add it manually to the xml of course (if you just can't wait ;D )
headkaze:
hiscore.dat-astic website is displaying an error when generating the file
--- Quote ---Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'fyrecryp_HiScore'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in /home/fyrecryp/public_html/HiScoreDat/connect.php on line 7
Can't connect to MySQL
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Fyrecrypts:
Having some hosting issues. =/
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