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Title: Saving High Scores in MAME. Is this right? (solved)
Post by: DeLuSioNal29 on December 21, 2008, 12:29:25 am

Hi all,

My MAME has been running smoothly for months now (v.119) and I applied the "no nag" and "high score save" along with the optimized AMD settings on it when I compiled it.

That said:  On my machine, most games save high scores, but some don't.  I'm wondering if I ever applied the .diff file correctly from the start?  For example:  Games that don't save... Ms. Pacman and Donkey Kong.  Are these supposed to be saving with the high score hack applied?

Thanks in advance!

~ DeLuSioNaL

Title: Re: Saving High Scores in MAME. Is this right? (solved)
Post by: DeLuSioNal29 on December 21, 2008, 04:55:07 am

I figured it out.    :applaud:

It turned out (After further reading) that I needed the hiscore.dat file in the MAME directory and also a "hi" folder for MAME to store the files in once they are created in the game.

Works perfectly now.  :)

~ DeLuSioNaL

Title: Re: Saving High Scores in MAME. Is this right? (solved)
Post by: Ummon on December 21, 2008, 02:56:57 pm

Do'h.

Title: Re: Saving High Scores in MAME. Is this right? (solved)
Post by: DeLuSioNal29 on December 21, 2008, 07:16:01 pm

I'm just relieved that I don't have to recompile MAME.   8)

Title: Re: Saving High Scores in MAME. Is this right? (solved)
Post by: zaktallica on January 03, 2009, 05:40:25 am

Hey can you tell where I can download all the stuff you just mentioned? I'm running Mame plus 0.128 but I'll change to whatever to get rid of the nag screen and save my scores. Thanks

Title: Re: Saving High Scores in MAME. Is this right? (solved)
Post by: headkaze on January 03, 2009, 07:39:22 am

hiscore diff (with no nag/white box removal) (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=64298.0)