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Howard_Casto:
I've got to agree.  Most of the original operators did not leave their machines on 24/7, which means those games never really had hi-score support anyway.  Adding features into a game that it did not originally have is not a goal of mame. 

Also I also could care less about having my hi-score saved.  Hi-scores being the most important part of the game died around 1984-85 when multi-level games came out.  Also remember that games with nvram/savestate support do indeed support hiscores.

jasonbar:
Thanks, you Rebel scum!

I figured out (all by myself!) how to pass this command line to MAME (.115 in my case) via the MaLa front end.

For those even cluelesser & noobier than I, here's how I did it:
- went into MAME Config/Basics tab & hit the "Config" button next to the MAME executable & let it create a "sta" folder under the Mame folder
- went into the MAME Config/Additional tab & changed the "Command Line" box from %rom% to -autosave %rom%


Thanks--I'll try this out & see if I like it.

-Jason

MKChamp:
Well, obviously I am 'for' the hiscore. I think it should NOT be in official MAME, but it definitely adds to the overall experience for having a cab in your gameroom. Seeing the hiscore gives you a challenge to try to beat it...and not having to 'write' it down on a piece of paper or whiteboard...basically automates the tracking ;-)

I would be more apt to use savestates if all the games had it AND they weren't so prone to not work from version to version. I do NOT want to lose my 648,000 score on galaga and it's nice to actually see it when you fire the game up.
 I understand that if you turned off galaga at the arcade, it would lose the hiscore...but then again that same game wouldn't be compatible with keyboard inputs, either!

pacman-jam:
Well here is what I did,

Downloaded the newest version of mame 117u1 and the associated patches as well as the matching hiscore hi_117u1.diff from the top of this thread and configured it according to Mr Do's example.

but it didn't work  :'( it runs fine but no hiscore saving. I tested it on 1941 and entered a hi score and then quit and restart and it wasn't there..

 (also, 1941 seems kinda fast compared with my previous mame 111, oh and MaLa won't work with 117u1 either.. actually, 117u1 seems to have its own front end on it.. but when I select a game it plays a completely different one!! like.. I'll choose 1941 and it will play spaceinvaders)

any ideas fellas?

SGT:

--- Quote from: pacman-jam on July 29, 2007, 09:32:43 pm ---but it didn't work  :'( it runs fine but no hiscore saving.

--- End quote ---

Did you create subfolder named HI in the Mame folder? You must also download hiscore.dat and put it into your Mame folder.

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