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Avenger257:

I have looked through the site and found one post on this but it doesn't appear to answer the question???

My question is this:

Can you save your season/initials in NBA Jam.  The other post that I saw was talking about compiling MAME and it suggested using the HI Score diff (?) but when I look at what is saves, it doesn't appear to work with NBA Jams or similar games... can someone help me make sense of this?  I absolutely love this game and would love to unlock the hidden characters/seasons etc and would appreciate any help...

Finchbyrd:

You can use mame's save state feature, google that because I don't know much about it. I know you can save it and load it to continue from that point later, but I don't know if you have to manually load it every time, or if you can have it save automatically when you close the game.

Beretta:

hiscore diff was a patch to save high score tables on games that dont normally save high score table on power off, like pacman and such.

games like NBA Jam however are saved with whats called NVram, or "Nonvolatile Ram"
it's contents are saved via a battery..

in mame however there it's saved using a file..

check your mame.ini make sure it's saving a file in the "NVRAM" directory.

Endaar:

Saves work fine in NBA Jam: TE. I believe I have auto save-state on.

Avenger257:

Well I have the file in NVRAM but it is still not working.  Can anyone point me to where I can find more information on this?

I read up on the save state feature but I am unsure how I can make this work without using the keyboard (shift+f7).  Is there a way to automatically save using command line MAME?

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