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Hitotext poll
Fyrecrypts:
--- Quote from: severdhed on June 24, 2009, 12:30:33 am ---this looks like a really cool project..somehow i missed this one. does this work with MaLa?
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I don't believe they've integrated HiToText into Mala. Only Hyperspin, GameEx, and CPWizard have support for HiToText right now as far as I know.
Edit: However it is pretty FE friendly, all a developer has to do is send commands to the exe. I imagine if FE devs got enough requests to see it used, they'd incorporate it like Tom, Ben, and Bill have for their FEs.
Minwah:
--- Quote from: Fyrecrypts on June 24, 2009, 12:33:33 am ---I don't believe they've integrated HiToText into Mala. Only Hyperspin, GameEx, and CPWizard have support for HiToText right now as far as I know.
Edit: However it is pretty FE friendly, all a developer has to do is send commands to the exe. I imagine if FE devs got enough requests to see it used, they'd incorporate it like Tom, Ben, and Bill have for their FEs.
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I should probably have a look at this in Mamewah (although not had any requests). Presumably when you select a game it runs the .exe and retrieves the scores from a text file or something?
dna disturber:
--- Quote from: Minwah on June 24, 2009, 05:14:48 am ---I should probably have a look at this in Mamewah (although not had any requests). Presumably when you select a game it runs the .exe and retrieves the scores from a text file or something?
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It actually extracts the hi-scores from the hi files.
(you need a hi-patched mame for it, but can't think of anyone who doesn't want to keep his hiscores !) :laugh:
If you want the exact details you can PM Fyrecrypts I guess.
Sure would be nice to have Mamewah use it as well.
Dna Disturber :cheers:
Fyrecrypts:
--- Quote from: Minwah on June 24, 2009, 05:14:48 am ---I should probably have a look at this in Mamewah (although not had any requests). Presumably when you select a game it runs the .exe and retrieves the scores from a text file or something?
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It requires a hiscore-enabled MAME, it reads .hi files or .nv files if the scores were saved in nvram.
HiToText uses command line standard out, and doesn't generate a text file, though you could pipe it to a text file if you wanted to. Feed it a command and listen for the results. GameEx and CPWizard have menu options to view the hi scores, and HyperSpin will display them over themes. They use the -l flag to get a list of games that are supported, and then I'm assuming read the scores of the game as requested if it's in that list of games.
dna disturber:
He Minwah,
I think I spotted a request......
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on June 24, 2009, 10:40:21 am ---Is there a way to incorporate HiToText in some fashion in to MAMEWAH? I use MAMEWAH for my cabs...
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Dna Disturber