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Title: Mame isn't saving high scores (YES, I have hiscore.dat set up)
Post by: Sylentwulf on November 02, 2004, 04:45:23 pm

I have in the mame.ini
hiscore_dir           hi
hiscore_file           hiscore.dat

Yes, both file and directory name are correct, and in place. First example that comes to my head is Mr. Do doesn't save high scores. Using Mame .86 I believe, could be .78. Anything easy I could be missing? (Using mamewah 1.5x but that shouldn't matter)

Title: Re:Mame isn't saving high scores (YES, I have hiscore.dat set up)
Post by: KHAN on November 02, 2004, 05:12:35 pm

Do you have NVRAM forlder,because many games (like neogeo) use
this folder to store hiscore.
Delete all cfg files from it's folder...and always try to get the latest unofficial hiscore.DAT file.

Title: Re:Mame isn't saving high scores (YES, I have hiscore.dat set up)
Post by: zaphod on November 02, 2004, 05:30:01 pm

Not all the games actually save the high scores to the file.  

Title: Re:Mame isn't saving high scores (YES, I have hiscore.dat set up)
Post by: Sylentwulf on November 02, 2004, 05:52:51 pm

But it seems that NONE of them are. The only one I know off the top of my head that IS was Q*Bert. I just updated with unnoficial, and missile command and Mr. Do aren't saving high scores. Seems like those are fairly popular and would have a high score saving system.

Title: Re:Mame isn't saving high scores (YES, I have hiscore.dat set up)
Post by: papaschtroumpf on November 02, 2004, 06:00:54 pm

the high score saving is more based on technical issues than popularity.

Title: Re:Mame isn't saving high scores (YES, I have hiscore.dat set up)
Post by: danny_galaga on November 02, 2004, 06:02:26 pm

yep, just checked mine and mr do IS saving the high score

Title: Re:Mame isn't saving high scores (YES, I have hiscore.dat set up)
Post by: Magnet_Eye on November 02, 2004, 06:29:58 pm

how about your roms and mame versions? are they the same? I had an issue saving hi scores once and it was because I was using older roms with a current mame version.

Title: Re:Mame isn't saving high scores (YES, I have hiscore.dat set up)
Post by: Sylentwulf on November 03, 2004, 07:20:06 am

I believe I'm using a full checked set of .78 mame and rom set. Replaced a couple that weren't working, but none I've checked the score on.

Title: Re:Mame isn't saving high scores (YES, I have hiscore.dat set up)
Post by: dabone on November 03, 2004, 08:01:20 am

Make sure your files don't have a read only attribute.

IF windows right click the folder and select properties and make sure read only is not checked.

If dos / (Or windows command line) go to your mame dir and type

attrib *.* -r /s


Later,
dabone