hiscore diff (with no nag/white box removal)

[Tot]

I have just finished reading through this great info ( Thank you for that ) and with some help from Mr. Do have managed to compile MAME with no-nag\hiscore. Next I moved to MESS and from what I've read this ( the .diff ) should work but I just can't figure out how to apply the patch to MESS. Other than the patch the compile of MESS.exe and MESSUI.exe goes smoothly. What command is used to patch MESS before compiling?

[abelenki]

What command is used to patch MESS before compiling?

same as MAME (they share the same source code).

[Tot]

Thanks abelenki for the quick reply(s). I went through and re-installed the whole thing ( MESS ) and it seems I was launching the games with MESSUI, this still has nag screen. However when launched with MESS.exe the nag screens are gone. There is still a very brief "Initializing" window, can this also be removed? Did I install something wrong or does MESSUI not support no-nag, or need additional changes? This is not super important, since I am using MESS in Hyperspin to launch games but just to know.  EDIT: After setting rom\bios path in MESSUI and launching game for the first time nag screen exists, close MESSUI then re-open and they are gone. Only "Initializing" screen remains.                                                                                                                                                                                                     

[TheManuel]

Does anybody post compiled builds of MAME with this patch somewhere, both x86 and 64-bit?
I update MAME on avg. every 5 years, and would rather not go through the trouble of installing everything required to do the build.

[abelenki]

Does anybody post compiled builds of MAME with this patch somewhere, both x86 and 64-bit?

no

I update MAME on avg. every 5 years, and would rather not go through the trouble of installing everything required to do the build.

lol. you are out luck then.

[TheManuel]

I ended up compiling it myself, after all.  It wasn't that much of a hassle.
If anyone wants the build, just PM me.

[WakiMiko]

Any reason why hiscores are lost when soft-resetting (default MAME key is F3)? They are kept over hard-resets (Shift+F3).

Quoting myself in hope of an answer...

[Robbbert]

I'm not at all sure why you want to modify MESSUI as it already has a secret nag-killer... you just need to find out how to turn it on, which can be done from the command line or your ini file. Same with HBMAME.

Furthermore, the change from a standard build is only 2 bytes!

[Thirdeyedynamo]

I'm quite the newbee here and am quite staggered that the file I downloaded was not a .diff but a txt....... Can this .txt files be used as a patch file when compiling or am I missing a step in the process in order to get this into .Diff format?
Thank you
Brian...the super NEWBEE!!

[lukensteinz]

I'm quite the newbee here and am quite staggered that the file I downloaded was not a .diff but a txt....... Can this .txt files be used as a patch file when compiling or am I missing a step in the process in order to get this into .Diff format?
Thank you
Brian...the super NEWBEE!!

Diff files are plain text anyway. Just rename the extension.

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[pfcwintergreen]

With the latest(151) diff, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. etc hard crash mame on my system(i.e. no error message, have to control-alt-delete to end the process). Previous versions of mame with their respective diffs work just fine for these games. When I replace the Diff-patched exe with the official mame64.exe the games work fine.

Anyone else experience this or have some tips? Thanks

[rapture0707]

Good evening folks. Long time lurker but finally got sick of the nag screens and I keep having errors compiling .151. Any help would be appreciated this is the error I am getting

src/osd/windows/video.c:224:6: error: redefinition of 'void windows_osd_interface::update_hi(bool)'
src/osd/windows/video.c:202:6: error: 'virtual void windows_osd_interface::update_hi(bool)' previously defined here
make: *** [obj/windows64/osd/windows/video.o] Error 1

I have tried it multiple times, switched directories, double checked everything and just can't seem to get it to finalize and finish.

Thanks in advance

[abelenki]

hi_151.diff works fine with 0.152 source tree, but with couple of warnings.

p.s.: both MAME and MESS compiled fine.

[pfcwintergreen]

With the latest(151) diff, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. etc hard crash mame on my system(i.e. no error message, have to control-alt-delete to end the process). Previous versions of mame with their respective diffs work just fine for these games. When I replace the Diff-patched exe with the official mame64.exe the games work fine.

Anyone else experience this or have some tips? Thanks

I'll respond to myself here since someone else may have similar troubles. This turned out to be an issue I was having with Mame Compiler 64 and not the hiscore diff itself. I looked at the mame debug log, and then looked at the source code, and found that Mame was crashing during a legacy function call that isn't even used anymore. So red flags there.... I recompiled using Mr. Do's mame compiling tutorial (http://mrdo.mameworld.info/compile.php) and everything works perfectly. My theory is that I was getting bad builds with Mame Compiler 64 because of remnants(object files) from old builds interfering with the new ones. You might be able to avoid this with MC64 by checking the "Clean Compile" check box but I didn't do (yet)another recompile to verify that. But I am assuming user error on my part of course 
 

[haku99]

thank you!

Using the Mr.Do method, I was able to compile a mamev.0152 without issue

[cugel]

I have no problem with 0.151 but Higscore seem doesn’t work with 0.152, no ? (it compile fine)

[Tzakiel]

Does anyone know how to tell mame to look in a dropbox folder (desktop app is installed) for the hiscores instead of 'hi"? What is the format I should use for that in mame.ini?

[Tzakiel]

Hm, I also am having an issue with 152, 64 bit, compiled with hiscore diff and the cv1k diff... scores aren't reading or writing. Is there some issue with 152 and the 151 diff?

EDIT: yep, just recompiled, doesn't work. Huh.

EDIT 2: I am really dumb. I had hiscore.dat in my hi directory... needs to be in mame dir.

[cugel]

Hm, I also am having an issue with 152, 64 bit, compiled with hiscore diff and the cv1k diff... scores aren't reading or writing. Is there some issue with 152 and the 151 diff?

EDIT: yep, just recompiled, doesn't work. Huh.

EDIT 2: I am really dumb. I had hiscore.dat in my hi directory... needs to be in mame dir.

And now, It work for you ?

[Tzakiel]

Well, what I found out is that it has to be in your mame.exe directory normally, but for groovymame, it has to be in the hiscore dir (hi or whatever you set it as). Weird!

Yes, works perfectly except some games still don't save hiscores, not sure why... Espgaluda II for example. Any way to tell what games will work and what won't besides trial and error?

[cugel]

Weird ! I'm using mame 0.151 without any problem, but no Highscore with 0.152 (no nag OK)
I just swicth the binaries compiled on Linux

[jeracoo]

I just can't seem to get it to recompile, would anyone be kind enough to give me a recompile link?

[Ansa89]

Patch for mame 0.153: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,135823.msg1432055.html#msg1432055.

[EMDB]

I updated the patch to add native support for Donkey Kong Pauline Edition to V0.153. I attached it if anybody is interested.

[Jumpstile]

What is Donkey Kong Penny Edition? Link to a ROM?

 - J*

[nitrogen_widget]

All I have are .122 & .139 roms but simply could not get those version of mame to compile.
was able to compile .149 with the patch though.
will try once I have the roms.

Also found an old source package for ubuntu for sdlmame .122 so i'll attempt to compile that tonight.
The source on mamedev for older versions seems to need tweaking to compile on linux.

[EMDB]

What is Donkey Kong Penny Edition? Link to a ROM?

 - J*

I'm sorry it's Pauline Edition. Use Google to find out about this hacked rom. Links to roms are not allowed.

[Jumpstile]

Thanks, already have that one! 

 - J*

[EMDB]

Thanks, already have that one! 

 - J*

Sure but the original patch does not work anymore due to changes in the dkong.c driver. So if you want to build 0,153 you can use the new hiscore patch and my updated patch...

[Tzakiel]

Anyone having any luck with hiscore saving for:

ESPgaluda II
Mushihime sama
Mushihime sama futari
Mushihime sama futari black label
Dodonpachi dai fukkatsu

[Ansa89]

I don't think this patch supports those games.

[Tzakiel]

I don't think this patch supports those games.

Are you referring to MAME .153?  It plays all of those and more.  Just waiting on the hiscore patch and updated .dat

[benarcade]

nevermind

[Ansa89]

Are you referring to MAME .153?

No, I'm referring to hiscore patch.

[Tzakiel]

Are you referring to MAME .153?

No, I'm referring to hiscore patch.

I thought game support depended on hiscore.dat. Which the author has said he will try and add these games as soon as the 153 hiscore diff is out.

[ozfalcon]

Just wondering if the "disable_loading_patch" is known to cause video settings being lost.

While helping Lord-Data, He uncovered this problem. And I found this reference & workaround:
http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?&Number=297976

Looking at the patch, There doesn't seem to be much to this section. I'll look into it & see if I can find something.

[RyoriNoTetsujin]

As of right now, it appears MKChamps' website is down (the domain has expired?) 

I'm going to pm him, but in the meantime I see that people have been using his 151-152 version for Mame .153 and having success. Can someone please post an alternate download to this file? Many thanks.

Edit: Maybe these files could find an alternate download home on the new wiki? How would one go about making that happen?

[MKChamp]

As of right now, it appears MKChamps' website is down (the domain has expired?) 

I'm going to pm him, but in the meantime I see that people have been using his 151-152 version for Mame .153 and having success. Can someone please post an alternate download to this file? Many thanks.

Edit: Maybe these files could find an alternate download home on the new wiki? How would one go about making that happen?

That domain actually belong to abelenki. I would ftp the files there. The only two files I have on my local pc is the latest (153) and the one previous to that. Unless abelenki can get that domain back up or anyone else had a copy of ALL the other files...looks like they will be gone with the wind.

[RyoriNoTetsujin]

Any chance you could just post .153 as an attachment directly to this thread, for the time being?

Every search engine and every other link I've seen for hiscore/nonag diffs links back to this thread anyway, so I think that's probably the best bet until abelenki gets that page back up or can confirm the older files are lost.

EDIT: In case it's unclear to those reading through this thread, the .diff for .153 can also be found over in this thread: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,135823.msg1433497.html#msg1433497

[MKChamp]

I put the 153 patch link over to http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=135823.0;attach=307416

Whoever updated the patch to work in 153, thanks...I was out of town and it saved me time!