JoelGhanem

Hi, thanks so much for your response. Unfortunately, I'm still having some issues. The problem is that even after I change the file, the game rewrites it with what seems to be cached data while it's still running. It appears to detect the changes and overrides them. I’m considering modifying the machines to require a fake coin to play, and then restarting the emulator until someone inserts another coin. I’m using the standalone MAME with the regular mame.exe and the hiscores subfolder. Thanks again for your help! If I manage to solve this issue, I'll be sure to post the solution here.

Hi everyone, This is my first time posting here, and I'm not sure if anyone has tried something like this before. I'm setting up an arcade park where my friends can come and play. The idea is to create a kind of decathlon where we combine all the scores from all the machines in the circuit. The problem I'm facing is that we have more than 10 players, but the .hi file only saves the top 10 scores. I'm currently saving the high scores in a .csv file and then inserting them into a MySQL database. However, the last step I'm missing is how to automatically clear the scores while we're playing, the file rewrites itself all the time, as I don't want to keep stopping to manually delete the .hi file and restart the game each time. Does anyone know a better way to handle this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.