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Title: Save State Lost
Post by: Chunce DeLeone on October 15, 2007, 08:27:07 am

I was messing around with DDraw and D3d, switching back and forth.   Then I noticed the savestate and thus my highscores for Robotron disappeared.  Does anyone know why this would have happend and anyway to get them back?

Title: Re: Save State Lost
Post by: leapinlew on October 15, 2007, 09:14:03 am

Does Robotron use a savestate? For some reason, I thought those Williams games did something different for the high score.

Title: Re: Save State Lost
Post by: Chunce DeLeone on October 15, 2007, 09:54:32 am

Pretty sure it does,  everytime I start it says state successfully loaded.  Also for some reason it seemed that the savestate wasn't working for ddraw. 

Title: Re: Save State Lost
Post by: 2600 on October 15, 2007, 10:22:12 am

I believe Leapinlew is on the right path, but you both are kinda talking about 2 different things.

Does Robotron support save state?  Yes
Does Robotron use save state to store High Scores?  I don't think so.  IIRC, Robotron uses NVRAM to store High Scores and you don't need to use Save State.  Someone could do a quick test to see if I'm correct.


BTW, Chunce MAME says state successfully loaded because you set it up to automagically save and load save states not because it supports them.

Title: Re: Save State Lost
Post by: Chunce DeLeone on October 15, 2007, 10:35:07 am

How do you think I lost the high scores?,  one thing I did do was hit F1&F2 to get to the bookeeping info, I wanted to see how long I played and quarters used,  this was in the middle of playing around with D3D and DDraw.  I should have mentioned that.  Also going forward can I just shut off  autosave in the Robo .ini and the highscores will be saved correctly?  Is there any way to get them back? where would that file be?

Title: Re: Save State Lost
Post by: ahofle on October 15, 2007, 11:55:47 am

For Robotron, they are saved in the nvram directory as 2600 stated (robotron.nv).  It's possible you cleared the high scores table by accident while in the bookkeeping screens.

Title: Re: Save State Lost
Post by: Chunce DeLeone on October 16, 2007, 08:01:21 am

False Alarm:  I've been chasing my brothers highscore in Robo(340,000 nothing to write home about) for some time, so I have not been entering my initials everytime just hitting player one button over and over, so I decided to enter the initials on one pretty good game and when I saw the highscore baord again it looked like everything dissapeared but it was just my blank entries, also the high score is placed in the middle of the screen not the top where I was looking,  sorry for the false alarm,  all is well and good,