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Andymac1990:
Really? Well i've been using "mame XT Plus" and I haven't noticed a single game so far that doesn't save a high score. You might need to look into it.
u_rebelscum:
Andy, do you mean save the high score table, or carry the same score from one play to the continue play?  Kajoq talking about the latter.

Mame doesn't do anything to the games' internal logic, such as carrying the score between continues.  Nothing.  That is completely up to the original arcade game code (AKA ROMs).  Most old games didn't, but many mid 90's games did.  The derivs don't touch this either AFAIK.

So it completely depends on what games you play.


As for limiting continues, mame won't touch that.  It's too much a commercial use to be even thought of adding, let alone that that mame doesn't have anything to do with the logic of if a game is continued or not.  (Again that's 100% in the original arcade code.)
Andymac1990:
Oh ok. I didn't know that. I was talking about the highscore.dat file. Thanks, that's good to know. I sill would really like to have a program that does exactly as dmworking247 describes:


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I asked this very same question a few years ago on another forum, because I tire of adding credits or handing out tokens or coins, and the 'honesty system' doesnt work with my young kids.

A kind member wrote some software which basically limits the number of times the credit key (configurable) can be pressed before a reset key (configurable - lets say its ESC) s pressed.

So for example you set it to 5 credits, with the reset key being 'ESC'. You can add up to 5 credits, and then the 'credit key' becomes disabled (the OS doesn't recognize the keypress until its reset). When you quit out of MAME (ESC) and re-enter a new game, you can enter your 5 credits again.

I'll dig up my PMs on the other board and contact the member, as I really should have his permission before I distribute the software."

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IG-88:
Any luck on this dmworking247?

And is that Domo? My 3yr old is scared to death of that thing. I can't even go into Target with him...
TOK:
Don't want to sidetrack your discussion, but many games that have a continue feature also have a dipswitch setting to turn it off. Hit the Tab and dipswitch keys and look to see if the game allows you to toggle off the continue feature.
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