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Title: Unofficial Highscore.dat 8.1 out
Post by: Odonadon on August 03, 2003, 03:18:03 pm

http://www.mameworld.net/highscore/

I dunno, it's exciting news to me :)

Odonadon

Title: Re:Unofficial Highscore.dat 8.1 out
Post by: TalkingOctopus on August 06, 2003, 01:32:45 pm

When you update your highscore dat - you lose all of the score that the old dat stored right!?  

I am currently using the dat from mame.net on my cab and it seems outdated because I noticed several games that don't saved scored...but on the other hand I don't want to lose my current highscores.

Title: Re:Unofficial Highscore.dat 8.1 out
Post by: APFelon on August 06, 2003, 04:51:24 pm

I don't think you shoud lose your high scores-- at least that has not been my experience. The hiscore.dat file may change, but all of the *.hi files are still around and used by MAME...

Title: Re:Unofficial Highscore.dat 8.1 out
Post by: Odonadon on August 06, 2003, 11:59:02 pm

APFelon is right.  The highscore.dat file is basically a list of instructions telling mame how to save your highscores - no scores are actually stored in it.

I didn't lose any highscores when I updated.

Odonadon

Title: Re:Unofficial Highscore.dat 8.1 out
Post by: bleakboy on August 07, 2003, 05:39:05 am

am i being stupid but how do you get the Hiscores to save, i know they do for i.e Killer Instinct, and NBA Jam but not for things like track & Field,

Title: Re:Unofficial Highscore.dat 8.1 out
Post by: RetroBorg on August 07, 2003, 06:29:15 am

My high-scores save in Track & Field, do you have th NVRam file as well?