How to save high scores in mame

[johnnyskullhead]

Anyone if you can set up mame or Fba

to save high scores 

Edited May 23, 2017 by johnnyskullhead
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[Lordmonkus]

If you are using the stand alone version of Mame open the plugin.ini found in your Mame folder and set hiscore to 1

If you are talking about in Retroarch I don't know but I will take a look and see what I can figure out.

Edit: I couldn't find anything for the latest core but according to a post over on the Retroarch forums you can get an appropriate hiscore.dat for the mame2003 core and put that in your Retroarch\system\mame2003 folder. I tried this and couple of other things with the latest Mame core with no success unfortunately.

[johnnyskullhead]

Thanks Matey

running .184 standalone

so will check

 

[breite07]

Topic revisited for 12/2019...

So I downloaded MAME (v.216) from the official MAME site.

When I open plugin.ini, I see the following:

{
  "plugin": {
    "name": "hiscore",
    "description": "Hiscore support",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "author": "borgar@borgar.net",
    "type": "plugin",
    "start": "false"
  }
}
 

Do I manipulate this file in order to activate being able to save high scores?

Do I change the "false" to "true"?

 

Thanks for the feedback!

 

 

[Lordmonkus]

Are you sure you downloaded the actual binary and not the source ? I just downloaded the 217 version of Mame and the plugin.ini looks like this:

[breite07]

Hi - thanks for responding.

Yes - definitely the binary.

It looks like you have the plugin.ini file in the Mame root directory.

My plugin.ini is found here: mame0216->plugins->hiscore

Here is my root directory (no plugin.ini file:

 

 

[Lordmonkus]

The first step I always do with a new Mame install is run 

mame64.exe -cc

This generates my mame.ini and maybe the plugin.ini in the main folder with the Mame executable,  this also helps with any possible issues of Mame not working through LB since there are issues with having the mame.ini file in the ini folder.

[breite07]

Yep - that did the trick. Thank you!

[Lordmonkus]

You do it using the command line which I realize nowadays that not many people know how to use.

I made a batch file that you can use to do it, just drop this file into your Mame folder and double click it, it should generate a mame.ini and plugin.ini file in the folder.

Mame Config Create.bat