MAME .182 HI SCORE?

[latin625]

Hi!

I have MAME 182 running and can not seem to keep any of my high scores, how do you accomplish this?  It erases the high score when I restart the machine.  Thanks!

Before I used to "save state" on older versions of mame to cheat and keep the hiscore in place.

[neil9000]

I'm sorry I cant really help you here I also use the save state method, if anyone has any ideas I'm all ears.

[latin625]

I hear ya.  Any chance you now how to add scanlines on 182?

[neil9000]

Depends on what version of mame you are using, I am using MAMEUI 64bit and can add that through the desktop ui.

[latin625]

I am using .182 mame64.exe, can I do it with that one?

[neil9000]

I mean probably yes, but I don't know that program so I cant really help you unfortunately, but its probably in the options somewhere. Here is how easy it is in mameui, bottom left of the small window, choose effect.

[latin625]

thanks, but my MAMEUI is very funny acting and cant event get it to go full screen when I double click on it.  I keep trying with MAME64 instead.

Edited April 14, 2017 by latin625

[Sithel]

I enabled HI Score doing this. Open up your MameUI and go to

Options > Default Game Options > Miscellaneous II

Then you'll see this picture below.

Check "Enable internal LUA Plugins"

Select Plugin > hiscore

Folder structure you should have a folder called hi and dats, in the dats folder should be your hiscore.dat file. In the hi folder is where the hi scores will save on a per game basis. For some games to save you may need to clear your nvram folder.

Below is folder structure

When a rom saves the hi score the files in the hi folder will be like this below.

Good luck!

[latin625]

Thanks!!!!  But I cant get the darn MAMEUI to work.  I have this version that can run with no problem.  Im gonna try to reinstall it.

 

 

[latin625]

I load up MAMEUI and I can not pull apart any of the dividers.  This is what I get.

https://www.screencast.com/t/1XAsBhjgy

[latin625]

got it opened! Darn .ini file was set to some insane with of 513.. ughhh  ok, gonna try now what was suggested.

[latin625]

Now I cant see the top close button.  ARGGGH. lol.

[neil9000]

Also I don't have a mame64.exe look, this is a version of mame called mameui.

[latin625]

Ok, just in case anyone wants to know.  F11 gets you out of fullscreen in MAME

[latin625]

Man, couldnt get it running.  Found a old version of MAME 1.7 and it is golden!  Some sweet scanlines and event artwork for small screens to get rid of the black space.  Using Save state on the MAME as well.  Thanks guys,  But I had to go with the easy way.

[neil9000]

That's cool, whatever works for you is always the best solution. Even if you have a later mame rom set 99% of them should still work, so good gaming.

[DOS76]

All of the settings you were looking for are in the MAME.ini file you Just have to change those values.

[DOS76]

Well for scanlines you can also look at the BGFX settings as they are pretty nice also and I believe work properly regardless of the games screen orientation which if I recall correctly HLSL has issues with.

[Webbo1979]

I’m not sure how the hi score support system works but is it possible to add new games to the supported list? I had an old version of mame that had hi scores built in and would remember scores on football champ this new version doesn’t seem to do the same. 

[Lordmonkus]

In your plugin.ini file enable the hiscore.

hiscore                   1

As for adding games I don't think that is possible, it's something that is built into Mame and depends on the game.