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Author Topic: High score feature request.  (Read 2212 times)

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High score feature request.
« on: June 01, 2005, 09:40:21 am »
I just finished my first arcade cabinet and have begun configuring the software side of things.  I
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Re: Mamewah feature request, would it be possible to add high scores
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2005, 09:30:17 am »
I also would like to have this feature implemented if it is possible.

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Re: Mamewah feature request, would it be possible to add high scores
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2005, 01:38:10 pm »
Sounds like an interesting idea...dunno (my memory is fading) but maybe Buddabing's movie maker could be used to capture the single frame?

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?...

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Re: Mamewah feature request, would it be possible to add high scores
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2005, 03:26:51 pm »
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?...

Not a problem Minwah, I know your plate is probably full.  A seperate app is a better idea anyway because there is nothing mamewah specific about the idea.  I've been in MW mode this past week setting things up.

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Re: High score feature request.
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2005, 09:54:45 pm »
guys,

Just a quicky, every time i start mame i have no high scores, ive looked everywhere but cant seem to find where, is there a setting i am missing in mame ?

Thanks Guys

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Re: High score feature request.
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2005, 10:03:35 pm »
Steptoe: Download hiscore.dat and put it in your Mame folder


Back 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.

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Re: High score feature request.
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2005, 11:21:34 pm »
Steptoe: Download hiscore.dat and put it in your Mame folder


Back 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.

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Re: High score feature request.
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2005, 03:55:04 pm »
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.

I think this is why it hasn't been done before, there is no easy way to generically read hiscores from each game.  I'm sure Howard or )p( or another developer would have a more technical explanation to it, although I'm sure it has been covered here in the past...

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Re: High score feature request.
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2005, 03:58:02 pm »
Steptoe: Download hiscore.dat and put it in your Mame folder


Back 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.

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Re: High score feature request.
« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2005, 04:20:43 pm »
I guess I forgot to mention that I abandonded this effort.