damageinc86

It works with the newest version of Arcade64, outside of rocketlauncher.

Yeah could do that but what would the point be at this juncture? I trust that it works since I see other peoples scores. So that's fine.

Yeah I guess I could sometime. But wouldn't i have to update all my rom files and such? I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to find a specific one just to test with. But meh, even if standalone mame worked, I don't feel like trying to curate the newest romset, and I already have everything setup perfectly this way through RL also (pause savestates, bezels, fades, keymapping profiles). I wouldn't switch anyways even if standalone mame worked. Obviously it works because I see scores over there on the games. So oh well. Maybe someday i'll be in the mood to completely update and curate and stuff, and find a mame .lay bezel set that I like. But for now I'll just stick with what works for me. Or hopefully be allowed to point launchbox to the correct files someday. Gonna have to turn the feature off now lol. I can't be teased by everyone else's scores and not be able to join in the fun haha.

Just set up one game with mameuifx directly as the emulator within launchbox and now the log said: 2020-04-13 04:41:08 PM Aborting MameHighScores.Prepare: Could not retrieve plugin.ini path, and could not successfully tell MAME to create one. 2020-04-13 04:43:58 PM MameHighScores.Parse Failed: Current ROM file does not match the ROM file with the saved scores. Were multiple games launched at once? Dang. Really wish I could just point launchbox to my hiscore.dat file and be done with it lol.

I'm guessing because you'd have to break through the control of RL to get down to the files? it is too much of a barrier layer right? Easier if you have direct access through the emulator and it's files straight into launchbox?

Wowww. that's too bad. I have all my bezels and stuff set up in RL for Arcade. Would really like to use this feature.

Just tried it again, doesn't look like it finds the file. Maybe it's because I'm using Rocketlauncher? Can I tell Launchbox where to look for the files/directories it needs manually? Debug 2020-04-13 12-39-48 PM.log

Yeah i created that directory structure and copied the hiscore.dat into it, and that log was generated after that.

It is already putting the .hi's in the hi folder. Launchbox is not looking for the hiscore.dat in the right spot for mameuifx.

just making a plugins\hiscore folder and putting the .dat in there didn't work. this is the log after trying that. Debug 2020-04-13 12-39-48 PM.log

got the log: 2020-04-13 12:16:54 PM Aborting MameHighScores.Parse: Required hiscore.dat file not found in plugins\hiscore subfolder of MAME emulator directory. It isn't looking in the right spot. my .dat is in \dats not \plugins\hiscore. it's mameuifx from way back, and the hiscore saves work just fine for the emulator itself. Could i just make a copy of it and put it where launchbox wants to look for it?

Ok I decided to pick a game that had no hi score yet (omega race), and i've never even played it before. Got a score and restarted launchbox just in case. They don't show. How often does launchbox pull from the files? I can see my omegrace.hi file was updated a few minutes ago. Wait,...do i have to sync my collection?

OK I was just curious how it worked. I'll just have to BE BETTER lol.

Ms. Pacman. Well I haven't been able to beat my hi score since i have been signed in. That's why I was wondering if any score is taken, or if it has to be one that is beating your previous one. Its higher than some people on there, but its not higher than the one I did before I was signed in.

Is there a timeframe before your scores show up? I signed into LB database, have hiscore enabled, no cheats, everything ticked, and it doesn't seem to be updating my scores. Does it have to surpass your score that you previously had before enabling all this?

Well damn,...making me re-earn my high score huh!? lol. Fiiiiiiiiiiiiine.

this is a super cool feature! Am I reading the comments correctly, in that scores currently stored in the folders aren't being read until you refresh your score through launchbox (play the game again)?

It will be slick indeed.

Well apparently it isn't highly requested yet, but yeah I love utilizing all the save slots available for an emulator, just to have options. RL's Pause takes a screenshot when you do a save state, so that you can quickly see where you were at as you scroll through slots to load.

Yes, multiple save states is a must for a pause screen. I'm sure if not this round, or the next round, or the one after that, eventually it will become a feature.

Is this using retroarch? I constantly had problems with retroarch using a previous overlay for the next core/game I launched even though I only hit "save core override" Which is not supposed to make a global change, but did anyways lol. I ended up having to make a base clear config and copy it so that once I was done doing all the core override stuff, I could delete the config that had the last overlay still in it, and replace it with the copy I made of the clean/clear base config.

My lord. I just used notepad++ for this like a month ago lol. Guess I wasn't paying attention.

Wow, so no more notepad++ find and replace? That is good news!

Good lookin' out.