High Score When Resetting (F3) Game

[RetroBorg]

It used to be possible in earlier versions of MAME to reset (F3) a game and the hi-scores would still remain but for sometime now when you reset, the high scores clear.

Is there a way to reset and keep the scores still?

[MKChamp]

I don't think so. F3 does just like you said. Resets the game and the score tables are initialized...then when the game shuts down it saves off the data.

Sucks when you have a great score...did anyone see the post (I think at mameworld) about the glitch in galaga that lets you play briefly in the demo? Well, I wanted to see it for myself and sure enough you could control the ship...but it causes the game to 'reset' which made it lose my 637,235 hiscore. Call me cheesy, but I manually modified the galaga.hi file to put my score and initials back in.

[RetroBorg]

Call me cheesy, but I manually modified the galaga.hi file to put my score and initials back in.

I've edited high score files to put back my high scores after someone has pressed F3.