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severdhed:
you didn't move your mame directory did you?  I had a problem here the other day because i copied the mame directory from the cabinet here at work over to my desktop PC, but put it on a different drive.  so even though i was launching mame from e:\mame, there were things hard coded in mame.ini that was pointing to c:\mame

also, you said this seemed to start after adding mala to the startup folder....what happens if you skip mala completely and launch a few games directly via command line?  does it remember your hi scores?

if that works, go back into MALA and launch a game, get on the score table and then exit.  then launch that game again without rebooting....is your score still there?

i am assuming that you are allowing windows to shut down properly when you shut down...correct?(not just powering off)


yes, the hi scores are savedin the hi folder.   not all games support this though. (Donkey Kong does).  it could be something wrong with the hi score files as well.  you could try deleting all files in the HI folder and trying it again (back them up if you dont want to lose any existing hi scores)

javeryh:

--- Quote from: severdhed on August 21, 2009, 03:50:50 pm ---you didn't move your mame directory did you?  I had a problem here the other day because i copied the mame directory from the cabinet here at work over to my desktop PC, but put it on a different drive.  so even though i was launching mame from e:\mame, there were things hard coded in mame.ini that was pointing to c:\mame

also, you said this seemed to start after adding mala to the startup folder....what happens if you skip mala completely and launch a few games directly via command line?  does it remember your hi scores?

if that works, go back into MALA and launch a game, get on the score table and then exit.  then launch that game again without rebooting....is your score still there?

i am assuming that you are allowing windows to shut down properly when you shut down...correct?(not just powering off)


yes, the hi scores are savedin the hi folder.   not all games support this though. (Donkey Kong does).  it could be something wrong with the hi score files as well.  you could try deleting all files in the HI folder and trying it again (back them up if you dont want to lose any existing hi scores)


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Thanks for the suggestions.  I didn't add MaLa to the startup folder - I just checked the box in MaLa that said start MaLa with Windows or something.  I just press the computer power button on and off to shutdown.  I have been doing it this way for ages without issue though.  I'm going to disable that check box and make sure MAME isn't running in the background via the task manager and try again.  I've had a crappy day at work, people are going to be at my house in less than an hour so I doubt I'll have time to fix the problem. 

 :angry:

u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: severdhed on August 21, 2009, 03:50:50 pm ---you didn't move your mame directory did you?  I had a problem here the other day because i copied the mame directory from the cabinet here at work over to my desktop PC, but put it on a different drive.  so even though i was launching mame from e:\mame, there were things hard coded in mame.ini that was pointing to c:\mame

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Not exactly "hard coded" in mame.  Usually it's set in the mame.ini or frontend settings files, all changeable.  You just have to find them.  ;)



--- Quote from: javeryh on August 21, 2009, 04:50:59 pm ---I just press the computer power button on and off to shutdown.  I have been doing it this way for ages without issue though. 

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As long as you exit mame (into the frontend) before pressing the button (mame saves at exit), and the button triggers the soft shutdown (were windows gets to close all it's files, etc), this should be fine.

fatfingers:

I have never checked the box to run MaLa at windows startup.  Any chance MaLa is now running from some directory other than the MaLa installation directory?  If so, any chance that MaLa is now finding a different version of MAME?

severdhed:

--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on August 21, 2009, 05:16:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: severdhed on August 21, 2009, 03:50:50 pm ---you didn't move your mame directory did you?  I had a problem here the other day because i copied the mame directory from the cabinet here at work over to my desktop PC, but put it on a different drive.  so even though i was launching mame from e:\mame, there were things hard coded in mame.ini that was pointing to c:\mame

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Not exactly "hard coded" in mame.  Usually it's set in the mame.ini or frontend settings files, all changeable.  You just have to find them.  ;)



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note, i didnt say "hard coded in mame" but "hard coded in mame.ini" :)



i hope you got it sorted out

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