Mame Hi Score Q

[bcard74]

I am running in my bartop an old version of Mame 037 with Gamelauncher as the front end.  For some unforeseen reason, the high scores never are saved once I exit a game.  Am I missing something?  The directory is there, and it seems to be creating files.  Maybe I am missing a switch or something, but I have gone over it a few times.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

[Thenasty]

make sure you have the HISCORE.DAT file, but lots of games are not supported.

[Tiger-Heli]

Mame used a hi-score support system internal to the MAME core until R36B13.  In R36B14, this was disabled while they created the external hiscore.dat file handling.  External hiscore.dat saving was implemented by R37B6 (and maybe a few builds earlier. . .)  I would guess you have one of the disabled versions.  Try a newer or older build.

[bcard74]

Thanks, will give it a go.  Think I have one of the newer builds of 037 though ...

[Tiger-Heli]

Thanks, will give it a go.  Think I have one of the newer builds of 037 though ...

If it's R37b6, it should work with the new-style hi-score .dat file.

Make sure your hiscore.dat file is in the MAME directory, and that you hi-score directory is called out properly in your mame.ini file.

Then manually open the hiscore.dat (Wordpad or NotePad and be sure the games are included).

Then try moving or deleting the individual game hiscore files and see if that helps.

Some games used NVRAM so make sure that directory is set up.

Finally, there is a chance that the ROMS changed between 0.37b?? and the current build so hiscore.dat may be saving the wrong data, b/c it is set up for 0.62.

In this case, you would need an old hi-score.dat from R37B??.  Good luck finding one