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Title: Finally...a NEW hiscore.dat file by Leezer!
Post by: MKChamp on May 16, 2008, 04:23:45 pm

Well...it took over 2 years, but Leezer got around to releasing a new and improved hiscore.dat file over at his website. This is a must for anyone using hiscore support for their MAME.

Go grab it over here: http://www.mameworld.net/highscore/ (http://www.mameworld.net/highscore/)

...and be sure to tell him THANKS!

Title: Re: Finally...a NEW hiscore.dat file by Leezer!
Post by: FrizzleFried on May 16, 2008, 07:34:41 pm

Any idea what games are added?   I'd really love to see VS. Balloon Fight added.

Title: Re: Finally...a NEW hiscore.dat file by Leezer!
Post by: krazy_kenny1 on May 16, 2008, 07:57:16 pm

If I'm using the previous version of the hiscore.dat, do I need to delete any files in the "hi" or "nvram" directories or can I just update the hiscore.dat?

Title: Re: Finally...a NEW hiscore.dat file by Leezer!
Post by: MKChamp on May 17, 2008, 12:00:04 am

Quote from: krazy_kenny1 on May 16, 2008, 07:57:16 pm

If I'm using the previous version of the hiscore.dat, do I need to delete any files in the "hi" or "nvram" directories or can I just update the hiscore.dat?

All you do is drop in the hiscore.dat file.

I'm not sure what games were added and/or updated. You can search the dat file in a text editor like word or notpad and search for the driver.

Title: Re: Finally...a NEW hiscore.dat file by Leezer!
Post by: FrizzleFried on May 17, 2008, 10:17:02 am

I did just that.  I looked for the VS driver...found many VS games,  but not Balloon Fight.  Also though,  Excitebike didn't show up and the current .dat most certainly supports Excitebike.

I guess the best thing to do is simply drop it in and see.

Title: Re: Finally...a NEW hiscore.dat file by Leezer!
Post by: Havok on May 19, 2008, 09:50:17 pm

Quote from: FrizzleFried on May 17, 2008, 10:17:02 am

I did just that.  I looked for the VS driver...found many VS games,  but not Balloon Fight.  Also though,  Excitebike didn't show up and the current .dat most certainly supports Excitebike.

I guess the best thing to do is simply drop it in and see.

Excitebike is in there:

excitebk:
excitbkj:  ;******vs. excitebike (japan)
0:630:14f:00:0e

Title: Re: Finally...a NEW hiscore.dat file by Leezer!
Post by: RoomTenONine on July 23, 2008, 11:11:51 pm

Sorry to resurrect this, but the link to the latest hiscore.dat is broken and I can't find the current version anywhere  :banghead: :cry:

Title: Re: Finally...a NEW hiscore.dat file by Leezer!
Post by: jardine on July 24, 2008, 12:21:38 am

be paitent...mameworld has been down for a bit now....it'll come good.....i'm waiting for it to  :hissy:

Title: Re: Finally...a NEW hiscore.dat file by Leezer!
Post by: Avrus on July 24, 2008, 04:04:29 pm

If only someone would upload it to the forums ...  :angry:

Title: Re: Finally...a NEW hiscore.dat file by Leezer!
Post by: RoomTenONine on July 24, 2008, 05:16:46 pm

Its up again!

Title: Re: Finally...a NEW hiscore.dat file by Leezer!
Post by: whynotpizza on July 27, 2008, 04:58:36 pm

After downloading the DAT and placing in same directory as Mame32.exe ...

"Soft Reset" appears to clear out the game scores.

Is this normal?

Trying to save high scores...forever (and in a flat file if possible)

  David