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hiscore diff (with no nag/white box removal)
MKChamp:
--- Quote from: PhoneLine on January 25, 2008, 06:51:02 pm ---Edit: Ahhh, I see there is already a hi_122u7 on the first page of the thread. thank ya MKChamp!
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Really...no need to thank me...I mainly do this for myself ;-)
J-Rod:
Not sure what is going on here, looking for some help. I have used the mamecompiler tool, to compile mame .121, and used the hiscore.diff for .121 as well. I would guess the compile went well, there were no errors, and the new mame.exe now loads roms without any nag screens and the like. I downloaded the latest hiscore.dat I could find, put it in my mame directory where my mame.exe resides. I also made a new directory called "hi" in the mame directory. It does not look like hi scores are saving though, testing with Pacman, since that is the easiest game to get a high score in quickly that I found. Any suggestions?
MKChamp:
--- Quote from: J-Rod on February 02, 2008, 04:16:07 pm ---Not sure what is going on here, looking for some help. I have used the mamecompiler tool, to compile mame .121, and used the hiscore.diff for .121 as well. I would guess the compile went well, there were no errors, and the new mame.exe now loads roms without any nag screens and the like. I downloaded the latest hiscore.dat I could find, put it in my mame directory where my mame.exe resides. I also made a new directory called "hi" in the mame directory. It does not look like hi scores are saving though, testing with Pacman, since that is the easiest game to get a high score in quickly that I found. Any suggestions?
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Hmmm...sounds like if you aren't getting the warning screens or the 'whitebox' stuff...the diff was applied correctly. A sure fire way to tell would be do type mame -cc on the command line and take a look at the mame.ini file created. You should see a line like this:
hiscore_directory hi
If you don't, then the diff wasn't applied correctly. If you do have that line, just make sure the hiscore.dat is in the SAME folder as your mame.exe (which you said it was) and the hi folder is created under the mame folder...like this: c:\mame\hi.
Also, I don't know how you are running mame...if you are using a frontend, make sure it is running the correct mame.exe. Maybe you are like me and have a mamep4.exe or something.
J-Rod:
Thanks for your feedback! I am typing this now without going downstairs to check it out, but I'll let you know. I did indeed have a mamep4.exe, but I renamed it to just mame.exe and deleted the original. I'll have a look see in the mame.ini and see if there's something going on. Everything else seems kosher, and I'm not sure how I could have applied a diff incorrectly since there was just the one.
*edit*
Ok, just checked. Here's what I found. Performed a mame -cc from my working mame directory. It created my mame.ini in the same directory. In that file there is:
#
# CORE FILENAME OPTIONS
#
cheat_file cheat.dat
hiscore_directory C:\MAME\hiscore.dat
this all looks correct, and that's where my hiscore is residing. The "hi" folder also exists in the \MAME\ directory.
Maybe I need to change that line to what you have?
MKChamp:
--- Quote from: J-Rod on February 03, 2008, 04:25:04 pm ---Thanks for your feedback! I am typing this now without going downstairs to check it out, but I'll let you know. I did indeed have a mamep4.exe, but I renamed it to just mame.exe and deleted the original. I'll have a look see in the mame.ini and see if there's something going on. Everything else seems kosher, and I'm not sure how I could have applied a diff incorrectly since there was just the one.
*edit*
Ok, just checked. Here's what I found. Performed a mame -cc from my working mame directory. It created my mame.ini in the same directory. In that file there is:
#
# CORE FILENAME OPTIONS
#
cheat_file cheat.dat
hiscore_directory C:\MAME\hiscore.dat
this all looks correct, and that's where my hiscore is residing. The "hi" folder also exists in the \MAME\ directory.
Maybe I need to change that line to what you have?
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Yes, change that line to read
hiscore_directory hi
This is the directory it will create the high scores for the games played. This is NOT where the hiscore.dat file is located.
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