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MAME 0.152 not saving high scores
« on: April 05, 2014, 03:41:22 pm »
I have hiscore.dat in my root MAME dir; added highscores = 1 to the mame.ini; and created /hi/ directory in the MAME root. Still it won't save high scores.

According to the Unofficial hiscore.dat web site, I have to use their special compiled version "v0.133u3 with hiscore support". Is that right? Newer versions don't support high scores?
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Re: MAME 0.152 not saving high scores
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2014, 04:24:04 pm »
Correct. I believe it is not a natural feature of certain machines to save the high score after you remove power. The goal of mame is the perfectly emulate original hardware. Saving the high score would be a hack. Some one please correct me if I am wrong.

Any newer version of mame can be compiled with hi-score capability added back in.
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Re: MAME 0.152 not saving high scores
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2014, 04:35:28 pm »
Quote from: keilmillerjr on April 05, 2014, 04:24:04 pm
Correct. I believe it is not a natural feature of certain machines to save the high score after you remove power. The goal of mame is the perfectly emulate original hardware.

Thanks for the explanation - I hadn't thought of that, and it makes perfect sense.
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Re: MAME 0.152 not saving high scores
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2014, 07:27:29 pm »
If you want to keep your hiscores between games you can also use save states: F7 and Shift-F7 for loading and saving.

That works with latest Mame without the need to compile a special version.
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Re: MAME 0.152 not saving high scores
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2014, 09:29:50 pm »
Awesome - even better. Thanks, GeoMan.
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Re: MAME 0.152 not saving high scores
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2014, 05:34:45 am »
I use this patch which works great for my highscore saving: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/?topic=64298.0
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Re: MAME 0.152 not saving high scores
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2014, 02:17:34 pm »
Quote from: EssexMame on April 07, 2014, 05:34:45 am
I use this patch which works great for my highscore saving: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/?topic=64298.0


^This is why I use also... the tools linked in that thread make it super easy to compile your own mame binaries and getting rid of the message boxes whenever you lauch a rom is just icing on the cake.

Now the only thing I wish there was a patch for is adding "freeplay" to every game in MAME... probably way more work than it's worth though.
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Re: MAME 0.152 not saving high scores
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2014, 05:32:19 pm »
Quote from: EssexMame on April 07, 2014, 05:34:45 am
I use this patch which works great for my highscore saving: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/?topic=64298.0

So if we compile our own using that diff, do we still need the hiscore.dat file?
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Re: MAME 0.152 not saving high scores
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2014, 02:22:11 pm »
Quote from: Lakersfan on April 07, 2014, 05:32:19 pm
Quote from: EssexMame on April 07, 2014, 05:34:45 am
I use this patch which works great for my highscore saving: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/?topic=64298.0

So if we compile our own using that diff, do we still need the hiscore.dat file?
yes
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