Saving high scores?

[JCKnife]

I did a search to learn how to make MAME save high scores and I know the answer is the highscore.dat file. What I don't know is...

1. Where do I put it?
2. What else do I have to do?
3. Will I be downloading everyone else's high scores when I download that file? If so, how do I set up a new one unique to my cab?

Thanks.

[JoyMonkey]

Many games in Mame support high-score saving without highscore.dat- these games originally saved high-scores even after the game was reset or un-plugged. For games that didn't have this feature, highscore.dat adds the function for them to save scores.

1. You put it in your "Hi" folder the same folder as mame.exe
2. You don't have to do anything else with it.
3. It doesn't contain any highscores, it just gives games the ability to save their own highscore file (these are saved in the Hi folder with the extension .hi)

Edit: fixed answer 1

[Tiger-Heli]

1. You put it in your "Hi" folder

You put it in you main (C:\MAME\) folder that contains MAME.exe

You might need to edit MAME.ini to say that the hi score folder is hi.

[JoyMonkey]

My bad!

[JCKnife]

You might need to edit MAME.ini to say that the hi score folder is hi.

You just do this with Notepad or what? I suppose MAME32 has the same ini file?

[JoyMonkey]

I thought they got saved to the Hi folder by default