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Either way I'm sorry but I probably won't be looking much into this in the near future... Perhaps someone could make a separate app which takes the snaps and names accordingly so all FE's could take advantage?...
Steptoe: Download hiscore.dat and put it in your Mame folderBack to the topic; would it be possible to write a program that reads all the hiscore files in your mame/hi folder and spits out the data into an xml file that a frontend could then read? The hiscore files seem to be pretty tough to read though, and I'm not a programmer.
I was thinking the same thing when I read this earlier. I am a programmer and I couldn't make heads or tails of the .hi files in the mame/hi folder. I looked at the high score code in the mame source and it is just writing part of memory to a file. I am not sure if the part I looked at writes to a nvram file or a .hi file (I didn't spend much time on this). Anyway, the data in the .hi file did not seem to correspond to the highscore data at all.
Quote from: JoyMonkey on June 05, 2005, 10:03:35 pmSteptoe: Download hiscore.dat and put it in your Mame folderBack to the topic; would it be possible to write a program that reads all the hiscore files in your mame/hi folder and spits out the data into an xml file that a frontend could then read? The hiscore files seem to be pretty tough to read though, and I'm not a programmer.I was thinking the same thing when I read this earlier. I am a programmer and I couldn't make heads or tails of the .hi files in the mame/hi folder.