How do I save high scores?

[Apollo]

Can someone do a step by step guide on how to make mame save high scores, it seems like some games save and some don't. I am using command line mame with mamewah. Thankyou.

[Thenasty]

thats how it is "Some games save, some games don't".

If its not supported, then it won't save. Always get the unofficial hiscore.dat file.

[TalkingOctopus]

You need to download the Hiscore.dat to make a majority of the games save scores.  Get it here: http://www.mameworld.net/highscore/.  Put it in your MAME directory.

Some games require an additional file (NVRAM).  Get them here and put them in your MAME/Nvram/ directory.  http://www.mameworld.net/highscore/nvram.htm