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Title: Saving High Scores
Post by: MisterB on September 22, 2003, 02:02:02 pm

I am having some trouble getting the high scores to save on some of my MAME games - it seems to save for some and not others.  In particular, I am having an issue w/ Ms PacMan, but there are others as well.  Can somebody explain why this may be happening, or maybe just explain how the high score saving works?

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: SirPeale on September 22, 2003, 02:08:53 pm

Covered in the FAQ.

http://www.mame.net/mamefaq.html#t08

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: MisterB on September 22, 2003, 02:14:50 pm

Yes, I have HISCORE.DAT and I've configured it correctly in my .ini file.  However, it is still inconsistently saving the data.  Do I need to exit a game in a certain way to make this work correctly?

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: SirPeale on September 22, 2003, 02:34:49 pm

That I don't have an answer to.  I consulted the highscore.dat page (http://www.mameworld.net/highscore/) and don't see anything about it there.  Ms Pac should be saving it's scores.  Maybe consult with someone there?

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: TalkingOctopus on September 22, 2003, 03:15:37 pm

Sorry if I am hi-jacking the thread, but are neo-geo games supposed to save highscores?  

They don't seem to for me.  Some of the ones I've tried are the Metal Slug series and Puzzle Bobble 1.

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: SirPeale on September 22, 2003, 04:16:47 pm

Quote from: TalkingOctopus on September 22, 2003, 03:15:37 pm

Sorry if I am hi-jacking the thread, but are neo-geo games supposed to save highscores?  

They don't seem to for me.  Some of the ones I've tried are the Metal Slug series and Puzzle Bobble 1.

See the site I just referenced.  You'll need the special nvram files for those.

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: TalkingOctopus on September 22, 2003, 05:01:05 pm

It was not really addressed in the FAQ, but I found the nvrams on the mameworld high score dat site.  Thanks!

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: OSCAR on September 22, 2003, 05:59:36 pm

Also make sure none of your directory or file permissions are set to Read Only.  This could be a problem if you copied the directory structure over from a CD.

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: SirPeale on September 22, 2003, 06:06:13 pm

Quote from: TalkingOctopus on September 22, 2003, 05:01:05 pm

It was not really addressed in the FAQ, but I found the nvrams on the mameworld high score dat site.  Thanks!

I was talking about http://www.mameworld.net/highscore/ which you aparently found in my previous post.

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: Tiger-Heli on September 23, 2003, 07:47:46 am

Also, try deleting the gamename.cfg and possibly the gamename.ho or gamename.nv files for that game and then re-setting the dip-switches, and key assignments, analog controls.

This fixed a problem I was having with Centipede scores getting out of order.   Not sure if it's related, though.  There's a thread about the Centipede problem on the software board. (somewhere)

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: MisterB on September 23, 2003, 08:56:02 am

Oddly enough, Centipede was the game one one of the games that I looked at and said "Why is this one working an Ms Pac isn't?".  I'll mess around with it some more tonight.  If I can figure it out, I'll post my findings.

Thanks

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: Rocky on September 23, 2003, 09:16:32 am

When I get a high score on pacman and exit, it doesn't save it, but if I play another game before I exit, it saves it.

Actually, if I just enter a coin after my score, it saves it.  I don't know about Ms. Pacman, but could be the same thing.

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: SpAwN on September 23, 2003, 09:30:40 am

I'm glad someone brought this up. It seems that every highscore gets saved except for Ms. Pacman on my setup.

I'm using advmame on Win 98se.

I figured Ms. Pacman just didn't work.

It'd be great if someone could tell me how to get Ms. Pacman saving since its the most popular game at my house!

Title: Re:Saving High Scores
Post by: MisterB on September 23, 2003, 09:45:50 am

Glad to hear its not just me... :-\