stensgaard Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 anyone know if there is a way to get your hiscore manually if the auto sync thing failed? I have a .log file, the nvram file, the hiscore file and a personal record, that was just not uploaded :,( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stensgaard Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 (edited) found a dipswitch setting called "Ranking Save" that make the game save the highscores! but now launchbox says " Aborting MameHighScores.Prepare: Dip switches were tampered with." is there a way to toggle the dipswitch called "Ranking Save" without triggering the tampering thing? hope someone can help? Edited May 17 by stensgaard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angerman Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 Debug 2024-05-25 08-28-07 PM.log problem with hi scores ... do not upload , can someone look at that pls .. two gamec black widow and astro blaster thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stensgaard Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 2024-05-25 09:10:38 PM WARNING: Attempted to cloud sync but user doesn't have login token this line could indicate problems logging in? try logging out and in again.... I do however think it could be a server side problem, since as of 5 min ago I could not get bigbox to download a highscore list for any of the games I tried! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar00 Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 Server(s) having problems more than likely. I cant connect to https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/ and launchbox is out of sync and cannot connect to game database. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry_Schnapper Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 (edited) Unable to get Batsugun arcade game to upload high scores. "ERROR: unable to find a structure from the xml definition that matches size and hiscore.dat definition' for game 'batsuguna'" This pops up after failing to upload high scores for Batsugun. Anyway I can fix it? Others have been able to upload high scores, but not me. Debug 2024-06-29 11-47-07 AM.log Edited July 23 by Old_Guard_Gaming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stensgaard Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 I get the same error in the log for futaribl.zip, using latest version of launchbox and mame 0.262... (the newest hiscore from this game is from 2024-05-04) TRACE: format auto: hexadecimal_string TRACE: charset defined: futaribl TRACE: charset defined: CS_NUMBER ERROR: unable to find a structure from the xml definition that matches size and hiscore.dat definition' for game 'futaribl' 2024-07-23 12:03:46 PM MameHighScores.Parse: No new scores found to upload! ps most other games upload scores just fine! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPersson Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 I got incorrect high score on tempest. Shows me having 950k rofl. My real score for now hovers around 78k. I had trouble getting hiscores to work though after it first worked but then I wanted to to try hard mode with no bonus and only 5 lives etc. Then hiscores stopped working and I kept reading here and learned it was about dip switches, I deleted those lines in the cfg so it became blank and the hiscores were uploading again. But why the 950k score? Where is that comming from? Also, is it possible to have some games with perticulara dip switches activated? Some games probably would be more fun with hard mode etc etc. Would be nice to have same kind of feeling of playing hard mode as Twin Galaxies listed it as. https://www.twingalaxies.com/game/tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trace Katral Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 (edited) So What would cause highscore to suddenly stop working? It was working fine, now nothing gets posted. I have followed all instructions with the ini files. Nothing works. I even updated to the latest mame version. What gives? Edited July 30 by Trace Katral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trace Katral Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 1 hour ago, Trace Katral said: So What would cause highscore to suddenly stop working? It was working fine, now nothing gets posted. I have followed all instructions with the ini files. Nothing works. I even updated to the latest mame version. What gives? <<SOLVED>> Okay got it working. So I followed all the instructions, No cheat, autosave off etc. Still didn't work. So I just simply logged out of the Launchbox Database (under cloud) on my cab and logged in again. Scores are successfully submitted again. It seems like BIgBox does not automatically log you in when launched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stensgaard Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 (edited) "new" versions of mame don't work with batsugun highscore uploading: this is from mame 0.267 where it does not work: TRACE: charset defined: batsugun TRACE: charset defined: CS_NUMBER TRACE: structure definition 10109e:04:00:00101166:70:00:001011b5:01:15:15 does NOT match hiscore.dat definition 10109e:04:00:00101166:50:00:151011b6:20:00:001010de:30:98:fb ERROR: unable to find a structure from the xml definition that matches size and hiscore.dat definition' for game 'batsugun' 2024-07-31 09:38:56 PM MameHighScores.Prepare: No scores found yet. this is from mame 0.239 where it works just fine: TRACE: charset defined: batsugun TRACE: charset defined: CS_NUMBER TRACE: matching structure: hiscore.dat = 10109e:04:00:00101166:70:00:001011b5:01:15:15 TRACE: matching structure: size = 117 TRACE: data taken from file: C:\EMU\MAME0.239\hiscore\batsugun.hi TRACE: structure simple elt: TOP SCORE (4 bytes read on 117) TRACE: structure loop elt (index=0): SCORE (8 bytes read on 117) Edited July 31 by stensgaard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stensgaard Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 On 7/27/2024 at 8:46 PM, JPersson said: Also, is it possible to have some games with perticulara dip switches activated? Some games probably would be more fun with hard mode etc etc. Would be nice to have same kind of feeling of playing hard mode as Twin Galaxies listed it as. I love this idea .... just don't know how it would work? lets say there are 3 dip switches in a game: 1: number of lives 3-4-5 2: autofire on / off 3: diffculty easy / medium / hard you set hardmode and don't change anything else ... but I check hardmode and enables auto fire, and so on .. so should we have 18 different highscore lists depending on what people change for this one game? another way to do this would be to select some high profile games, and match their settings with twin galaxies settings, just not sure how that would work in the UI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Dip switches typically cannot be used with LB hi score function since "cheats" are not allowed. Since dips allow users in some games to alter live count, auto-fire, and other assists it would negate the no cheats requirement for LB hi scores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPersson Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 On 8/1/2024 at 12:49 AM, Retro808 said: Dip switches typically cannot be used with LB hi score function since "cheats" are not allowed. Since dips allow users in some games to alter live count, auto-fire, and other assists it would negate the no cheats requirement for LB hi scores. Is'nt dip switches scanned in the cfg? So basicly you could have some games with presets for more fun hard modes to be allowed. So should be possible to allow hard mode if its based on scanning the cfg and accept certain dip switches for certain games with allowed dip switch cases? But I would like to know why I have 950k+ hiscore on tempest. My current hiscore is creeping up to 100k and right now it seems its not updating the hiscore again. Will have to figure that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stensgaard Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 On 7/31/2024 at 10:15 PM, stensgaard said: "new" versions of mame don't work with batsugun highscore uploading: this is from mame 0.267 where it does not work: TRACE: charset defined: batsugun TRACE: charset defined: CS_NUMBER TRACE: structure definition 10109e:04:00:00101166:70:00:001011b5:01:15:15 does NOT match hiscore.dat definition 10109e:04:00:00101166:50:00:151011b6:20:00:001010de:30:98:fb ERROR: unable to find a structure from the xml definition that matches size and hiscore.dat definition' for game 'batsugun' 2024-07-31 09:38:56 PM MameHighScores.Prepare: No scores found yet. this is from mame 0.239 where it works just fine: TRACE: charset defined: batsugun TRACE: charset defined: CS_NUMBER TRACE: matching structure: hiscore.dat = 10109e:04:00:00101166:70:00:001011b5:01:15:15 TRACE: matching structure: size = 117 TRACE: data taken from file: C:\EMU\MAME0.239\hiscore\batsugun.hi TRACE: structure simple elt: TOP SCORE (4 bytes read on 117) TRACE: structure loop elt (index=0): SCORE (8 bytes read on 117) this problem also exist with "futaribl" .. as in highcores work in 0.239 and does not work in 0.267! should stuff like this be posted to the bitbucket or is posting it here ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stensgaard Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 can anyone explain to me how someone can have a hi score on the leader board of around 3mill when the game requires you to score above 100.000.000 to get to enter your initials? I have score above 3 mill a few times to test this, and have not been able to get my score registered .. what does that user know that I don't? is there something in old versions of mame/launchbox that would allow someone to "reset" the default highscore list in a game, lowering the score needed to enter your initials?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juri85 Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 2024-08-17 07:44:18 PM FIRST CHANCE EXCEPTION: Unable to read data from the transport connection: Operazione di I/O terminata a causa dell'uscita dal thread oppure della richiesta di un'applicazione.. at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.AwaitableSocketAsyncEventArgs.ThrowException(SocketError error, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.AwaitableSocketAsyncEventArgs.System.Threading.Tasks.Sources.IValueTaskSource<System.Int32>.GetResult(Int16 token) at System.Net.Security.SslStream.ReadAsyncInternal[TIOAdapter](TIOAdapter adapter, Memory`1 buffer) at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() 2024-08-17 07:44:18 PM FIRST CHANCE CONTINUED INNER EXCEPTION: Operazione di I/O terminata a causa dell'uscita dal thread oppure della richiesta di un'applicazione. 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Game.PlayTime changed from 2029 to 2212: Track & Field (Arcade) 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.ViewModels.MainViewModel.window.Activated Start 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.ViewModels.MainViewModel.window.Activated Before JoystickTimer Enabled Set 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.ViewModels.MainViewModel.window.Activated Before Resume Video 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.ViewModels.MainViewModel.window.Activated Before Check Already Focused 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM AddEditGameViewModel Closed Updating GameDetailsViewModel 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Aborting MameHighScores.Parse: Dip switches were tampered with. 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM GameDetailsViewModel AttachView LoadVideoMusic Start 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Music.Play Start 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM GameDetailsViewModel AttachView LoadVideoMusic Completed 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Music.Kill Start 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Music.Kill Finished 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Music.Play Empty Music Path 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Music.NotifyTrackList Start 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Music.NotifyTrackList Invoke WPF 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Begin... 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Marked disposed true... 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Star rating faded nulling... 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Video control dispose... 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Video control nulling... 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Invoking UI thread... 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Nulling out all image sources... 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Completed. 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM AddEditGameViewModel Closed Updating ContentBackground 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM FIRST CHANCE EXCEPTION: E:\LaunchBox\pack:\application:,,,\WpfResources\Background.png at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement) 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Syncing cloud data since 17/08/2024 19:43:09 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Received 4 records from the cloud 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting Favorite on 2512a248-343d-4f69-9b2d-3c7695fd9d30 [Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3] to: False 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting CompletedDateTime on 2512a248-343d-4f69-9b2d-3c7695fd9d30 [Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3] to: 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting CompletedDateTime on 2512a248-343d-4f69-9b2d-3c7695fd9d30 [Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3] to: 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting PlayCount on app e34c418f-fca6-4e2d-8c05-b88e4a90dede to: 8 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting PlayCount on app e34c418f-fca6-4e2d-8c05-b88e4a90dede to: 4613 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting PlayCount on app e34c418f-fca6-4e2d-8c05-b88e4a90dede to: 15/01/2024 15:22:53 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting Favorite on 377e55b9-02b6-4cdf-bb70-5678c8dbfeca [Ace Driver: Racing Evolution] to: False 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting CompletedDateTime on 377e55b9-02b6-4cdf-bb70-5678c8dbfeca [Ace Driver: Racing Evolution] to: 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting CompletedDateTime on 377e55b9-02b6-4cdf-bb70-5678c8dbfeca [Ace Driver: Racing Evolution] to: 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting PlayCount on 377e55b9-02b6-4cdf-bb70-5678c8dbfeca [Ace Driver: Racing Evolution] to: 1 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting PlayTime on 377e55b9-02b6-4cdf-bb70-5678c8dbfeca [Ace Driver: Racing Evolution] to: 634 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting PlayTime on 377e55b9-02b6-4cdf-bb70-5678c8dbfeca [Ace Driver: Racing Evolution] to: 19/10/2023 06:59:47 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting Favorite on 22cd51ca-ebb3-4a81-81be-36e0a6a65110 [Fisherman's Bait: A Bass Challenge] to: False 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting CompletedDateTime on 22cd51ca-ebb3-4a81-81be-36e0a6a65110 [Fisherman's Bait: A Bass Challenge] to: 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting CompletedDateTime on 22cd51ca-ebb3-4a81-81be-36e0a6a65110 [Fisherman's Bait: A Bass Challenge] to: 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting PlayCount on app 3c7c9271-4c09-46bf-bb66-ac7d5795d313 to: 0 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting PlayCount on app 3c7c9271-4c09-46bf-bb66-ac7d5795d313 to: 0 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting PlayCount on app 3c7c9271-4c09-46bf-bb66-ac7d5795d313 to: 15/01/2024 15:01:08 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting PlayCount on app 68c9ab70-2a1b-46e0-8367-c5c9459f975b to: 1 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting PlayCount on app 68c9ab70-2a1b-46e0-8367-c5c9459f975b to: 1 2024-08-17 07:46:30 PM Setting PlayCount on app 68c9ab70-2a1b-46e0-8367-c5c9459f975b to: 15/01/2024 15:01:08 this is a log file after play Track & Field (trackfld) and try to save highscore (supported in launchbox). I see someone have record the highscore in this week. my mame version is 0.247. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stensgaard Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 On 8/17/2024 at 7:55 PM, Juri85 said: 2024-08-17 07:46:29 PM Aborting MameHighScores.Parse: Dip switches were tampered with. this line is the important one for you .. Launchbox won't upload your score since you have changes some of the DIP switch settings .. to fix this you have to delete the track and field .cfg file inside your mame/cfg folder, and then not touch the dip switches again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juri85 Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Thank you so much, that's work!!! I've tried to delete nvram file but not effect.... delete .cfg file work fine!!! Tks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPersson Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Is incorrect scores a thing in many games? Still annoyed by the wrong scores being reported for tempest hw rev 3 version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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