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Losing high scores
bigredsk10:
I am having trouble with my high scores in Q*Bert in Mame. Every so often, every three weeks or so, they get reset. This is after shutting down Mame and shutting down my computer multiple times.
It doesn't make sense to me because when I exit and reboot, the high scores are normally still there. Q*Bert doesnt seem to use auto-save, so I don't know what the problem is
I can't think of anything that would trigger the high scores being erased. I don't know if anyone can help me but Im stumped and I figured it can't hurt to ask and see if anyone has any ideas. Sorry if Ive been a bit vague.
Oh, Im using the most recent Mame.
SGT:
Are you using a version in which the hiscore patch has been applied?
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: SGT on April 17, 2007, 06:02:05 pm ---Are you using a version in which the hiscore patch has been applied?
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Don't take this as 100% fact but I seem to recall that Q*Bert doesn't support HISCORE.DAT... I don't know WHERE I read that but I am ALMOST positive I did, in fact, read that.
SGT:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on April 17, 2007, 07:06:48 pm ---Don't take this as 100% fact but I seem to recall that Q*Bert doesn't support HISCORE.DAT... I don't know WHERE I read that but I am ALMOST positive I did, in fact, read that.
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Looks right. I looked in my hiscore.dat and there's no sign of QBERT.
bigredsk10:
Nope, Im not using the hi-score patch. I haven't had the time to dig through the process of compiling Mame.
The problem is that the hi-scores will be saved for weeks at a time. I can shut the game down, reboot my computer, whatever, and the score will still be there when I start it back up. Except for every so often, for no reason that I can figure out, the scores are all gone.
I have a file in my nvram folder that is called Q*Bert. Does that mean that Q*Bert should be able to save scores without the hiscore hack? Maybe the problem is that the nvram file is becoming deleted or something. I guess Im not completely clear on what nvram is except that its some kind of memory...
Q*Berts a favorite on my machine so I thought it would be worth asking. I don't think I know enough to figure out whats going wrong.
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