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Title: high score troubles :-(
Post by: exibar on September 21, 2004, 09:22:57 pm

Hi scores just will not stay put for me.  In Tempest they keep reverting back to the original initials, but keep my score!  Weird, in other games they just don't stay there, like in Zaxxon.

  Could someone please please enlighten me on the proper way to keep hi scores.  I've tried the unofficial hiscore.dat file, same thing :-(

  I'm running Mame.86 and MameWah 1.51

  thanks all!!!
    Mike B

Title: Re:high score troubles :-(
Post by: exibar on September 23, 2004, 07:12:06 pm

is this just a silly question that is answered in the FAQ and I missed it?  or does no-one keep hi-scores in their cabs?

  I'll be able to search more tonight for an answer, but if anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be awesome :-)

  Mike B

Title: Re:high score troubles :-(
Post by: pointdablame on September 23, 2004, 10:54:40 pm

Are  you using cheat.dat? I know you can't save scores if you are using it, at least that's what I remember reading.  That's the only thing I can think of.

Title: Re:high score troubles :-(
Post by: exibar on September 23, 2004, 11:59:50 pm

I don't think I ever put cheat.dat on my cab, but I'll double check in the morning.

  I did notice tonight that my Tempest scores were there, but my Zaxxon scores were not :-(

I'll play with it more tomorrow and see what happens.

  thanks! ;-)

  Mike B

Title: Re:high score troubles :-(
Post by: SirPeale on September 24, 2004, 01:56:07 pm

Some hi scores save; some don't.  Look in the hiscore.dat file to see what games rely on this file to save their scores.

Some games use the nvram files to save scores as well.

And some just haven't been figured out yet.

Title: Re:high score troubles :-(
Post by: exibar on September 24, 2004, 02:07:21 pm

ahhhh, I'll have to look into those NVRAM files too then....

  so much to learn, so much to learn....  It's good to learn new stuff though :-)

  thanks all!
  Mike B

Title: Re:high score troubles :-(
Post by: KHAN on September 24, 2004, 06:38:43 pm

Hey!
        A trouble is trouble.All the replies are saying right.you may need to check it again.To save high scores files you must have
1)A folder name "hi" by default.
2)A NVRAM folder.
3)A letest updated hiscore.DAT file.

As you are using a latest MAME try to keep all the DAT files update.
If you are using cheats then highscore will not be saved.

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