Author Topic: How to save Hi scores? (Read 3530 times)

gingerone · « **on:** September 23, 2005, 12:56:08 pm »

Can someone tell me how you get mame to save the hiscores on games.
I've been to the hiscore.dat page which says that mame automatically saves the hi scores but mine does not!
What I want is when I enter my initals in a game I'd like to be there when I play the game next, is this possible?
I know I'm probably being really dull here but can someone please put me out of my misery?

Thenasty · « **Reply #1 on:** September 23, 2005, 01:49:57 pm »

just grab the hiscore.dat file and shove it in the same dir as MAME, thats it. now if the game you are trying is not yet supported, then it won't save. Some games also gives you problem if hiscore.dat exist. Keep all this in mind.

chris2922 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 23, 2005, 03:07:21 pm »

Does Hiscore.dat work with Dos Mame 0.36 simply be putting it in the MAME root directory?

gingerone · « **Reply #3 on:** September 23, 2005, 03:25:46 pm »

I just stick it in the hi score directory in mame?

chris2922 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2005, 03:35:28 pm »

Nope,
Extract the HISCORE.DAT file into the same directory as MAME.EXE.

gingerone · « **Reply #5 on:** September 23, 2005, 04:27:12 pm »

Righto, I'll give it a go.
Will this only save the high score or any score that you post on the game?

Thenasty · « **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2005, 04:30:42 pm »

yes it will save the score as long as that game your playing is supported to save hi-score. read my first reply.....I keep saying this because you maybe playing a game that is not yet supported...this will avoid your question about, I tried it and still not working..

gingerone · « **Reply #7 on:** September 23, 2005, 04:39:45 pm »

Yeah, I checked the not supported list and most of the games I want it for are suported.

gingerone · « **Reply #8 on:** September 23, 2005, 04:43:36 pm »

Saying that mind I've just re-checked the hi score.dat website and there are 2 lists of unsuported games, one has 40 games on it and the other has hundreds, I assume it's the longer list that is correct?

gingerone · « **Reply #9 on:** September 23, 2005, 05:05:28 pm »

Right, I've tried this but when I downloaded the dat file it was not zipped so I was unable to uncompress into my mame.exe!
I should say at thi spoint that my arcade machine is not online and I have to download onto my mac and transfer into my arcade machine which is XP.
Scrub that last bit, it was safari playing me up.

gingerone · « **Reply #10 on:** September 23, 2005, 06:35:59 pm »

Thanks for all your help, it's working like a charm now.

Skadar · « **Reply #11 on:** September 23, 2005, 08:24:01 pm »

Wait a minute. I'm using MAME 99b and my games save my highscores. Yet, I don't have a file called highscore.dat anywhere that I can see.

Is this normal?

brophog · « **Reply #12 on:** September 23, 2005, 08:32:45 pm »

It depends on which games. Hiscore.dat only works on games that do not have a means to save the game once power is shut down.

Many games use NVRam or similiar to save games and therefore do not use hiscore.dat.

Scoobie · « **Reply #13 on:** September 23, 2005, 11:45:18 pm »

Is this why Tempest doesn't save my high scores? I thought it saved them at one time, but not anymore. It probably never did.

Has anyone else been able to save scores in Tempest?

Tiger-Heli · « **Reply #14 on:** September 24, 2005, 10:59:06 am »

Quote from: Scoobie on September 23, 2005, 11:45:18 pm

Is this why Tempest doesn't save my high scores? I thought it saved them at one time, but not anymore. It probably never did.

Has anyone else been able to save scores in Tempest?

Tempest should work. Can't say for the newest MAME but it did at one time.

Tiger-Heli · « **Reply #15 on:** September 24, 2005, 11:03:18 am »

Quote from: chris2922 on September 23, 2005, 03:07:21 pm

Does Hiscore.dat work with Dos Mame 0.36 simply be putting it in the MAME root directory?

Actually no -
Prior to MAME 36B14, MAME used a driver-based hi-score support built into the actual MAME core. In 36B14 and subsequent builds this was disabled. Sometime prior to R37B6, the new external hiscore.dat file was enabled. So it is VERY possible that 0.36 has no hiscore support whatsoever.

chris2922 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 25, 2005, 07:31:02 am »

Right, so having hiscore.dat in my MAME0.36 dir is not doing me any good at all?
Spose i can del that then.

jopenner · « **Reply #17 on:** September 25, 2005, 10:18:48 am »

I can't seem to find the highscore.dat file to place in my MAME32 (V.082). Where do we find this little devil?
I checked my "hi" directory in MAME, but it's not there. There is a text message saying that's where it should be.

John

Thenasty · « **Reply #18 on:** September 25, 2005, 04:32:27 pm »

Quote from: jopenner on September 25, 2005, 10:18:48 am

I can't seem to find the highscore.dat file to place in my MAME32 (V.082).

Scoobie · « **Reply #19 on:** September 25, 2005, 09:55:47 pm »

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Tempest should work. Can't say for the newest MAME but it did at one time.

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I'm running MAME v 0.83 and I do remember it working at one point...strange.

Does anyone else have an idea as to why Tempest isn't saving my hi scores? I've been using this version of MAME since it was released, along with the hi score.dat file.

Thanks.

jopenner · « **Reply #20 on:** September 26, 2005, 12:46:16 pm »

Thenasty,

Thanks for the link.

I thought that there would be a single file that kept tabs on high scores from all games

After looking at the tutorials, I think I'll keep a notepad near the arcade

Thanks again.
Cheers.

John

RayB · « **Reply #21 on:** September 26, 2005, 03:02:17 pm »

Does Highscore.dat work with any version of mame? Like, could I download the latest highscore.dat and use it with and older MAME like 0.78?

Tiger-Heli · « **Reply #22 on:** September 26, 2005, 03:18:43 pm »

Quote from: RayB on September 26, 2005, 03:02:17 pm

Does Highscore.dat work with any version of mame? Like, could I download the latest highscore.dat and use it with and older MAME like 0.78?

In a general sense yes - In reality, pretty much.

Occasionally there are games in one version that may not work with highscore enabled and then may work again in a later version of MAME. And obviously if MAME changes romset content that is likely to mess it up.

But, like older samplesets and roms for deleted games - good luck finding an older version, or even what version it is tied to . . .


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