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APFelon:
Okay, let's say friend "A" and friend "B" have an arcade cabinet. They both like playing Dig Dug, and are very competitive of their scores.

Is it possible for friend "A" to set up a makeshift server over the internet that keeps track of a shared hiscore.dat file? That way friend "A" and friend "B" could work with the same high score table on every game in MAME?

I always thought this would be a cool idea. Is it possible NOW, or would I have to do something wacky like recompile a MAME build? Maybe use some sort of WAN file sharing proggie or can it be done through an FTP?

APf


SirPeale:
The hiscore.dat file isn't written to.  It's the file that MAME calls upon to see where the scores are written to in nvram.  You would have to share nvram files, and that could get sticky if someone uses settings that the other does not like.

RetroBorg:

--- Quote from: Peale on January 31, 2004, 09:56:19 pm ---The hiscore.dat file isn't written to.  It's the file that MAME calls upon to see where the scores are written to in nvram.  You would have to share nvram files, and that could get sticky if someone uses settings that the other does not like.

--- End quote ---

I'm probably wrong but i thought only a few games required NVRAM files to keep the highest scores.

Tilzs:
I'm sure you could do it by setting up a method of downloading the high score file then uploading again when done playing. Problem being though that you don't really have a version control (if both are playing at the same time). Ideal method would be to merge your new score with the master list score. That however would be much more difficult. I'm betting you'd have to do that on a game by game basis since the memory is most likely mapped in a diffent fashion. I'm guessing on that however.

APFelon:
Fine. I made semantical error. This is what I meant to ask.

Two machines in two locations sharing high score files in MAME (regardless of what those files are). Has it been done?

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