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edge:

--- Quote from: jelwell on December 13, 2006, 07:42:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: Brad on December 13, 2006, 05:07:40 pm ---High Score Saves on the cab is an important part of the fun, especially when friends come over.

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Or when you've networked your nvram and hi directories so that all your friends are sharing high scores.
Joseph Elwell.

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Joseph - very interesting statement.  :)  Are you sharing your hi scores outside your house lan?

jelwell:

--- Quote from: edge on December 13, 2006, 08:49:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: jelwell on December 13, 2006, 07:42:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: Brad on December 13, 2006, 05:07:40 pm ---High Score Saves on the cab is an important part of the fun, especially when friends come over.

--- End quote ---
Or when you've networked your nvram and hi directories so that all your friends are sharing high scores.
Joseph Elwell.

--- End quote ---

Joseph - very interesting statement.  :)  Are you sharing your hi scores outside your house lan?

--- End quote ---
Yes. There are 4 of us with Arcade Cabinets. We all share the same hi scores. I store the hi and nvram directories on an ftp server. (We have not yet upgraded to save state versions). Then I use webdrive on all the machines to mount the ftp server as if it were a physical drive. Everyone uses identical MAME revisions and ROMs and we all point our hi and nvram directories to the mounted server. It's quite speedy, unless you want to play Simpon's Bowling which has an NVRAM file which is around 8MB (which can take a noticeable number of seconds to load).
Joseph Elwell.

jcrouse:

--- Quote from: jelwell on December 14, 2006, 02:16:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: edge on December 13, 2006, 08:49:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: jelwell on December 13, 2006, 07:42:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: Brad on December 13, 2006, 05:07:40 pm ---High Score Saves on the cab is an important part of the fun, especially when friends come over.

--- End quote ---
Or when you've networked your nvram and hi directories so that all your friends are sharing high scores.
Joseph Elwell.

--- End quote ---

Joseph - very interesting statement.  :)  Are you sharing your hi scores outside your house lan?

--- End quote ---
Yes. There are 4 of us with Arcade Cabinets. We all share the same hi scores. I store the hi and nvram directories on an ftp server. (We have not yet upgraded to save state versions). Then I use webdrive on all the machines to mount the ftp server as if it were a physical drive. Everyone uses identical MAME revisions and ROMs and we all point our hi and nvram directories to the mounted server. It's quite speedy, unless you want to play Simpon's Bowling which has an NVRAM file which is around 8MB (which can take a noticeable number of seconds to load).
Joseph Elwell.

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Nice idea.

John

Brad:
Yep, I too am impressed!

Brad

FrizzleFried:
Almost makes me want to go out and put up a public server and advertise it to mamers and let everyone who wants to connect to the same Hiscores!!

...almost.

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