Mame32 high scores

[nic8612]

Is there a way to get Mame32 to save your name and highscores without having to recompile the program?  I have looked but I can only find the topic on recompiling

[ahofle]

You have to enable 'savestates' and they don't work for all games.  Also, they sometimes break when you upgrade MAME. 

[danny_galaga]

its been a while, but i think you have to download a seperate file for high score saving . maybe highscore.dat? ill check. hmmm, maybe this:

http://www.mame.net/hiscore.html

dunno if there is a more recent one or not...

[ahofle]

Hiscore.dat support was removed from MAME a few versions ago.  Unless he's using an older version of MAME (or a recompiled or derivative build) hiscore.dat won't do anything.

[nic8612]

I'm using the newest version of Mame32.  So there should be an option somewhere to enable it to save highscores?

[ahofle]

It's not specifically for saving highscores, it saves the state of the game when you exit.  So the next time you load the game, it just continues where you left off (and hence the high scores never clear).   Anyway, go under the 'misc' tab of default options and select 'save game state on exit'.  As I mentioned, there are many games that don't have save state support yet so it doesn't always work.

[Tiger-Heli]

Two options:

Recompile using these fixes - http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=64298.0 and instuctions at Mr. Do's site: http://www.mameworld.net/mrdo/compile.html and unofficial hi-score.dat file from http://www.mameworld.net/highscore/

or

Use MAME32 v107 (or previous) from http://www.joymonkey.com/main/index.php?n=MAME32Archives.0100To0109 (took me a while to find that).  MAME 107u1 removed the hi-score support from the command line version - not sure if MAME 107.1 is post-107u1 or not - safest would be to use 0.106 with the hi-score.dat file from above.