Main > Main Forum

MAME not remembering anything? Help!!

Pages: << < (3/3)

u_rebelscum:


--- Quote from: fatfingers on August 21, 2009, 05:59:37 pm ---Any chance MaLa is now running from some directory other than the MaLa installation directory?  If so, any chance that MaLa is now finding a different version of MAME?

--- End quote ---

The setting might have been accidentally changed or corrupted.  Double check MaLa's and mame's settings files. 

Hmm... or maybe an Antivirus update messing with something?  (Or the opposite: an unauthorized rouge app app running and messing things.)



--- Quote from: severdhed on August 21, 2009, 10:59:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on August 21, 2009, 05:16:01 pm ---Not exactly "hard coded" in mame.  Usually it's set in the mame.ini or frontend settings files, all changeable.  You just have to find them.  ;)

--- End quote ---
note, i didnt say "hard coded in mame" but "hard coded in mame.ini" :)

--- End quote ---

Sorry, OT, and I don't like being picky, but.. "hardcoded in mame.ini" makes less sense than "hardcoded in mame", which is why I quoted as I did.

"Hardcoded" means something unchangeable without editing the source and recompiling.  Sure, mame is hardcoded to look in mame.ini.  And mame hardcodes the defaults for mame.ini.  But mame.ini isn't a source file, and mame doesn't need to recompile after changing mame.ini.  And even if mame.ini isn't changed, the setting can be changed from the commandline/frontend, or game (or parent or bios) specific ini files. 

So mame.ini doesn't meet any of the three conditions for "hardcoded": no need to recompile, isn't source, and the settings can be changed without editing mame.ini. 
(I'd probably concede the term if mame.ini was the only place to change the settings, though, with all the just in time compiling languages (java) and in-line scripting languages (javascript) redefining what "recompile" and "source file" mean now a days.  But that would be very boardline.)

severdhed:


--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on August 24, 2009, 02:31:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: fatfingers on August 21, 2009, 05:59:37 pm ---Any chance MaLa is now running from some directory other than the MaLa installation directory?  If so, any chance that MaLa is now finding a different version of MAME?

--- End quote ---

The setting might have been accidentally changed or corrupted.  Double check MaLa's and mame's settings files. 

Hmm... or maybe an Antivirus update messing with something?  (Or the opposite: an unauthorized rouge app app running and messing things.)



--- Quote from: severdhed on August 21, 2009, 10:59:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on August 21, 2009, 05:16:01 pm ---Not exactly "hard coded" in mame.  Usually it's set in the mame.ini or frontend settings files, all changeable.  You just have to find them.  ;)

--- End quote ---
note, i didnt say "hard coded in mame" but "hard coded in mame.ini" :)

--- End quote ---

Sorry, OT, and I don't like being picky, but.. "hardcoded in mame.ini" makes less sense than "hardcoded in mame", which is why I quoted as I did.

"Hardcoded" means something unchangeable without editing the source and recompiling.  Sure, mame is hardcoded to look in mame.ini.  And mame hardcodes the defaults for mame.ini.  But mame.ini isn't a source file, and mame doesn't need to recompile after changing mame.ini.  And even if mame.ini isn't changed, the setting can be changed from the commandline/frontend, or game (or parent or bios) specific ini files. 

So mame.ini doesn't meet any of the three conditions for "hardcoded": no need to recompile, isn't source, and the settings can be changed without editing mame.ini. 
(I'd probably concede the term if mame.ini was the only place to change the settings, though, with all the just in time compiling languages (java) and in-line scripting languages (javascript) redefining what "recompile" and "source file" mean now a days.  But that would be very boardline.)

--- End quote ---
.


ok, so hard coded was probably not the proper word, i just meant that it was specifically mentioned in there, as opposed to not specified.

to get back to the problem at hand...

what happens if you launch the game from command line instead of mala, does it keep the hi scores?

Beretta:

have the same problem with fastmame .98, it wont remember anything but then again i never have been able to get it to.. but that could have been something borked with the compile since it's not an official build.

Pages: << < (3/3)

Go to full version