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Title: High Scores Easy Q
Post by: iamnaeth on June 10, 2004, 11:47:52 am

I'm a little confused about high scores.  It seems to me that my scores are reset every time the rom is loaded.  Is there anyway to keep this from happening?

Title: Re:High Scores Easy Q
Post by: SirPeale on June 10, 2004, 11:51:59 am

Do you have the hiscore.dat file?

Even then, some games don't support it.

Title: Re:High Scores Easy Q
Post by: Lilwolf on June 10, 2004, 12:25:09 pm

And if you have an old version... get a new one.

about 5-10 (don't remember) versions ago, the format was changed.

Title: Re:High Scores Easy Q
Post by: iamnaeth on June 10, 2004, 03:05:10 pm

I guess I don't have that file.  I have mame 0.82.  When I get that file where do I put it and how does it ensure that the games save their data to the correct location?  I guess I had the wrong impression that the highscore.dat was a file that people posted their high scores on.  I wasn't really interested in other people's high scores  ;)

Title: Re:High Scores Easy Q
Post by: Tiger-Heli on June 10, 2004, 03:55:55 pm

>I guess I don't have that file.

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

>When I get that file where do I put it

Same as the MAME.exe file, usually C:\MAME\

>and how does it ensure that the games save their data to the >correct location?

It's auto-magic, actually, it's a good idea to edit your mame.ini file to make sure you have a line that reads
hiscore_directory       hi

>I guess I had the wrong impression that the highscore.dat was a file >that people posted their high scores on.

You're thinking of MARP (www.mameworld.net/marp, I think).