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Is possible to show hiscore in mala layout? maybe with a plugin?
esplinter:
Hi all,
I have been reading mala docs, mala wiki and searching this forum and I haven´t found anything related to this, so it seems that what I want is not possible but just asking the experts to be sure :)
I would like to show the hiscore for each game in the mala layout together with the videos, rom name, times played......etc
I haven´t found any layout like this or any documentation explaining how to do it. ¿anyone knows if this is possible?? ¿any link to documentation about this?? ¿maybe with a mala plugin??
I haven´t read documentation about mala plugins but I thought maybe this could be done by a plugin. ¿anyone who knows about mala plugins could guide me just to know if this could be achieved with a plugin?? I know a little bit about programming so if this is possible at least I will give it a try.
many thanks in advance for any help or orientation.
Henrik68000:
Yes i agree a hi-score would be super, I wote for it! (if there's any thing like voting) But it would be great.
There some other things that i woul like to see solved first though. Like the layou clutter that many emu's make when you quit them (and yes i know thers a tick in the config to solved this but i dose not work.
Henrik
Ummon:
--- Quote from: Henrik68000 on September 08, 2009, 03:02:34 pm --- Like the layou clutter that many emu's make when you quit them (and yes i know thers a tick in the config to solved this but i dose not work.
Henrik
--- End quote ---
Works on my system. Just goes blank and then gone.
severdhed:
yeah..i'd love to see this ability added to MALA. i don't know how feasable it is, but it would be awesome to show the hi scores in the layout.
esplinter:
hi
I have found some info about hiscores in mame.
http://mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php/FAQ:Features#Why_doesn.27t_my_favorite_game_save_my_high_scores.3F
it seems that games that originally supported to save hiscore can also do it in mame but many others games don´t save hiscore. mamedevs also mention -autosave parameter but........ "however, only a subset of MAME's games fully support save states, so this approach is not a perfect solution."
This way I don´t know where hiscore values are saved in hard disk and maybe it can be different for each game so it seem difficult to get the hiscore value for each game and show it in the mala layout.........at least it seems difficult for me with my little knowledge about how mame works.
Also found an other option to save hiscores using the unofficial hiscore.dat
http://highscore.mameworld.info/
this way we create a folder named "hi" in the mame folder and we get a file called "romname.hi" for each saved hiscore. this files are "data", not text, not sure in which format. This approach seems easier as mala could search this folder to get the file .hi for the current rom and show it in the layout. Not sure how this .hi file could be readed.
The bad thing is that hiscore.dat is not supported in official mame releases (I don´t know why) but only supported in other mame modifications as mameplus.
This is the info that I have found about hiscores............ maybe any developer who knows better about how mame and mala works can say if hiscores in mala are possible...........
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