MAME 0.156 with High Score support

brianon · 29-12-2014 12:26AM #1

Anyone know a good mame (with UI) that has high score support ?

I've just gotten mameui64 but I can;t get it to save high scores in pacman for some reason.

TechnoFreek · 29-12-2014 09:23AM

Hey Brian.

Stupid question. Are the buuilds you have supposed to be hi score enabled?

I use this site for mame builds and news.

http://insertmorecoins.wordpress.com/category/emuladores/mame/

brianon · 29-12-2014 11:29AM

Yeah. Hi Score builds. Tried the MAME UI 64 from the link you sent and still no high score saved. I am baffled.

*I've even dropped in the hiscore.dat file.

brianon · 29-12-2014 11:55AM

Still cant get any of the MameUI versions to save but MAME Plus from that site is working. Thanks.

TechnoFreek · 29-12-2014 12:17PM

Where do you have the hi score dat file stored?

I moved to mame 155 recently from 150.

I had the dat stored in mame root but had to move it to the hi score folder for it to work in 155.

The builds in that link I sent you are normally very reliable.

brianon · 29-12-2014 01:32PM

I had the hiscore.dat in mame root.

I moved it from there to ./hi and for Mame Plus! 0.156 (the one I got working) it stopped working.

I tried it in root and ./hi for MameUI and hi scores not working either way.

brianon · 29-12-2014 01:43PM

http://mame32fx.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6

Moved hiscore.dat to the ./DATS folder and all good

TechnoFreek · 29-12-2014 01:47PM

There's obviously some change in newer versions of mame in relation to hi scores.

For the record I'm using groovymame 155.

Glad you're sorted anyway.

Dr Bob · 30-12-2014 01:11PM

Mame is funny in that the developers seem to want to keep it 'pure' ie its not for playing the games , just emulating them precisely.
so you find that updates actually REMOVE features.
Nice rant from a few years back about it here
http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/mameover.htm

ts_editor · 30-12-2014 08:24PM

Dr Bob wrote: »

Nice rant from a few years back about it here
***URL removed (low postcount)***

:P
.... ruined mainstream videogaming, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory around the middle of the PS1 era and lumbering the rest of us with a crushing weight of dull, plodding, endless fantasy RPGs or dry, joyless sports sims ....

PaulPriest · 03-01-2015 06:35PM

Dr Bob wrote: »

Mame is funny in that the developers seem to want to keep it 'pure' ie its not for playing the games , just emulating them precisely.
so you find that updates actually REMOVE features.
Nice rant from a few years back about it here

For the record, the hiscore.dat was removed because it was an endless source of false bug reports - it is just a list of chunks of memory to backup (which wouldn't have been so bad), and watch/trigger addresses. If mamedev/we (I was an active dev around 2001-2004) had maintained it it wouldn't have been so bad, but noone wanted to and it was left to the community. We also had 2 viable alternatives at that point - eeprom, nvram, hd changes could be preserved, and then later we had (auto) savestates - removing the highscores lead to a much greater support for the savestates (though I must confess to not knowing the percentage coverage now - I'd hope it's pretty good proportion.
Savestates are much more reliable, it's just like leaving the pcb running...

Nearly a couple of decades later - I think most people would agree that the original ethos behind MAME had held us in good stead - not a day goes by where I don't read sone article about a project that has used MAME technical documentation, dissassemblers or emulation to reverse some protection and restore dead pcbs, or write new games, or reimplement games on fpgas ( or emulation of classics on modern consoles/Steam with heavily 'inspired' code).

MAME 0.156 with High Score support

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