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HOTR6:
Alright I have taxed my brain on this! I am sure it is something very simple I am overlooking. I downloaded the hiscore program and I put it in my mame folder, then I extracted them there also. I extracted into the mame folder, not a subfolder within mame. I looked at the docs and saw that Donkey Kong in fact is on there but I can not get it to save my high score! Does it have anything to do with what version of MAME I am running? I am running 103 and my FE is Mamewah.
Do I need to change anything in the ini? Any suggestions?
HOTR6:
Okay just to make sure I am looking at the right thing. I would expect that the high score would be kept on the high score page of the game itself. You know when you get the high score you input your 3 letters. If the hiscore program does not save it to that I am looking in the wrong place!
HOTR6:
Okay I searched around a bit and found a thread about changing the mame ini file. I looked in mine and it says hiscore_directory hi
BUT there is no hiscore_file hiscore.dat
I read on the other thread that it was supposed to say that. Should I insert that line right underneath hiscore_directory?
OR am I on the wrong track?
I am not really computer savvy so this is all a learning experience for me and I don't want to muck something up.
Thanks
danny_galaga:
just as a FYI, hi-scores in many of the original games were kept in RAM. when the machine was turned off, the scores dissappeared. what the hi score file in mame does (more or less) is record your high score and store it. when you play the game again, it re-inserts that hi score back.
HOTR6:
allright...I didn't get it going last night, I didn't sleep well because of it! :(
I have a question....where exactly is the extracted file going to go? I know it says the mame directory but just for the record what is that? I have a folder on my drive called mame, in that folder are several other folders (samples, snap, titles......) there are also things that are not folders, like if you click on them they don't open to more stuff (chdman, mame, romcomp....) there is a file in there that is my ini it has a litle notepad and a sprocket it says configuration settings. So now I don't know where to put the hiscore dat. I put it in the "mame" folder and it appears as a file folder in there. I know I am doing something wrong, I just don't know whatit is.
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