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High Score Competition #70: Sky Shark (was Hacha Mecha Fighter)
opt2not:
Yes! Flying/Sky Shark is one of my favorite shmups! I'm in.
Good pick Emph!
torino:
--- Quote from: Bender on July 02, 2011, 11:19:50 am ---so does this overwrite the local "skyshark.hi" folder?
if not how do you switch back and forth between using the local and the web hi for a game?
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The important thing is that "web-sync" folder shares the same parent folder with whatever currently used "hi" folder, becasue that's where the .BAT script is looking for local scores to update master (server) scoreboard and where consequently local .hi files will be updated.
C:/WEB_SYNC_MAME_COMPETITION_FOLDER/
+ cfg
+ hi
+ roms
+ web-sync
hiscore.dat
mame.exe
You can avoid overwriting or mixing "local" and "competition" .hi files in several ways:
a.) SEPARATE: duplicate MAME to a new folder, say "c:/OnlineMAME" and empty "hi" to start clean
b.) BACKUP: rename or zip your current "hi" folder, make a new one, alternate renaming accordingly
c.) some better and simpler solution, something that can be automatised with the .BAT script itself?
--- Quote ---Theoretically this sounds pretty cool, a live updating scoreboard
man I'd like to set that up with just a couple of friends
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Go ahead and use "OnlineMAME" drivehq account, or open your own, it's free. I'll help you modify .BAT script for other games.
torino:
--- Quote from: emphatic on July 02, 2011, 11:44:02 am ---Removing the "net.exe" worked for me. I'm just gonna play a credit (I'm not competing in this game though) and see if it works 100% on my end.
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Did you run .BAT script before you started the game and you could see my score inside it once you entered the game?
If you first play the game with a brand new .hi file and register some score, exit the game and then run .BAT script, you should see both my score and your score the next time you start the game.
The script can probably be inserted to work within some MAME front-ends, so that it can be run automatically by the front-end each time when the game starts and/or after game exits.
emphatic:
Wouldn't it be possible to use the * to include all available games in one's hi folder with this tool?
torino:
--- Quote from: emphatic on July 02, 2011, 01:58:02 pm ---Wouldn't it be possible to use the * to include all available games in one's hi folder with this tool?
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Almost, it's a bit more complicated because different games use different number of fields, but HiToText utility, beside reading and writing, can also inspect each format beforehand, so too then can .BAT script do each different format merging accordingly. In short, with some little additions and modifications the only limit for this script is the number of games actually supported by HiToText.
So, did you see my score in the game after running SYNC.BAT ?
Why are you not competing? Wasn't it the point when you won the last competition to choose some game you would actually _want to compete in... so you can win again, then choose another game you're good at and win yet again, and then again, and again... until everyone bows down and calls you the king? That's how you can rule this competition, or can you? How high can you get?
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