High Scores Easy Q

[iamnaeth]

I'm a little confused about high scores.  It seems to me that my scores are reset every time the rom is loaded.  Is there anyway to keep this from happening?

[SirPeale]

Do you have the hiscore.dat file?

Even then, some games don't support it.

[Lilwolf]

And if you have an old version... get a new one.

about 5-10 (don't remember) versions ago, the format was changed.

[iamnaeth]

I guess I don't have that file.  I have mame 0.82.  When I get that file where do I put it and how does it ensure that the games save their data to the correct location?  I guess I had the wrong impression that the highscore.dat was a file that people posted their high scores on.  I wasn't really interested in other people's high scores  

[Tiger-Heli]

>I guess I don't have that file.

http://www.mameworld.net/highscore/

>When I get that file where do I put it

Same as the MAME.exe file, usually C:\MAME\

>and how does it ensure that the games save their data to the >correct location?

It's auto-magic, actually, it's a good idea to edit your mame.ini file to make sure you have a line that reads
hiscore_directory       hi

>I guess I had the wrong impression that the highscore.dat was a file >that people posted their high scores on.

You're thinking of MARP (www.mameworld.net/marp, I think).