Wicked-Awesome, Super Fantastic FE Idea!

[Odonadon]

If I don't say so myself.  

Why not grab the current highscore from the game you currently have selected in your FE, and display it along with screen shot, marquee, etc?    How wicked would that be?  And it should be pretty damn easy to do, too!

Any thoughts?

Odonadon

[Magnet_Eye]

Yeah, i thought it would be cool if the screenshot had the current highscores in them...

how could you be sure to update the shot after each gameplay?

[Minwah]

I heard this idea before, but from memory it is not as easy as you think...something to do with how/where the scores are kept, and lack of standardisation.

Could be wrong tho...

[)p(]

It was very difficult before the introduction of the external dat file for highscores. It should now be possible to use the format it uses to do something like that.

peter

[RetroBorg]

I use Mame32 and take pictures of all my highscore screens using the F12 button then I move the file to my titles directory, which I actually use for highscores not titles.

[Howard_Casto]

It was very difficult before the introduction of the external dat file for highscores. It should now be possible to use the format it uses to do something like that.

peter

Actually it's still very difficult.... the hiscores.dat is just for a very limited number of games that don't save highscore data (because the original machine didn't have battery backup).  The data in the hiscores dat is still completely unstandardized and hard to parse.  You know which data goes to what game, but not what the data contains, how the data is encoded, or even how many scores that are saved.  

Even if you did manage to parse the hiscores.dat, that's only about 100 games(and I think that's a high number) out of 4000.  

Your idea is a great one, I just thought of it a year ago, tried it, and decided it wasn't worth the trouble.  

[Odonadon]

Since the highscore.dat file is too hard to parse, what about grabbing high scores from the individual highscore files that aren't in the highscore.dat file?  The \hi\ directory?  Or is that something else completely?

Odonadon

[AlanS17]

If I'm not mistaken, aren't the high scores usually buried in the cfg files for the corresponding games?

[Howard_Casto]

If I'm not mistaken, aren't the high scores usually buried in the cfg files for the corresponding games?

You are correct sir (hi-o!), they are dumped in with the dipswitch settings, controller.cfg and everything else.... in other words it's a mess and nearly impossible to parse, even more so than the highscore.dat