Elhora Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 2 hours ago, JoeViking245 said: Is hiscore turned on (set to "1") in plugin.ini? yes it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 14 hours ago, Elhora said: The "Hi" directory in Mame remains empty Most MAME games save their high scores in the ../mame/hi/ folder. There are some that save them in the ../mame/nvram/ folder. And a couple that use both. Air Gallet (agallet) saves them in the hi folder (agallet.hi). If your hi folder is empty, then for some reason MAME is not saving them. When you restart Air Gallet, does you high score (308000) still appear in the game? [I'm guessing not] Since your hi folder is empty (which is not normal [after playing a game(s)], play a few different games and see if any hi files appear. Note: there are a few games that require you make an actual high score 1st before it'll save it. agallet is not one of them. If no hi files are appearing, look in your ../plugins folder for a 'hiscore' folder and for the files it has. I presume the version of mame64.exe and your roms are the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elhora Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 (edited) So i have checked, and you're right, my hi score have disappeared from inside the game and the Hi folder is still empty, but i have a lot of game folders in my nvram with some "eeprom" files in it. In fact, can see there all the games where i made a hiscore after my fresh install in the nvram folder (mslug, agallet, 19xx, dspirit, arkanoid, etc....) . So the thing is all the game i make a hiscore are saved in nvram folder, but not in Hi folder, and not uploaded for saving ! All the files in the plugin/hiscore are present and yes, my romset and mame64.exe are both 0.225 Edited October 12, 2020 by Elhora Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 12, 2020 Author Share Posted October 12, 2020 @Elhora I see this error in the log file: ERROR: unable to find a structure from the xml definition that matches size and hiscore.dat definition' for game 'agallet' It looks like there's some kind of conflict here between what hi2txt is expecting and what MAME is delivering. I would guess it's because of a version conflict, but it might be worth reporting it to @GreatStone. Please see the first post of this topic for instructions on how to report issues to GreatStone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 5 minutes ago, Elhora said: the nvram folder Most, if not all games will create a folder in here. And the EEPROMs don't necessarily store high scores but do store game settings and info [in computer lingo]. Try this... rename the agallet folder that's inside ../mame/nvram/ to something else ("111agallet" or what ever). Play Air Gallet for a little bit (it's not necessary to get a high score). Exit. Quit MAME. This will create a 'new' agallet folder in ../nvram/. And is supposed to create a ../mame/hi/agallet.hi file. Another presumption is you're playing the parent rom (agallet) and not a clone (agalletu). Which doesn't matter. The whole series saves high scores in the hi folder. but using the respective file name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 If there's no "agallet.hi" file, there's nothing for hi2text to read. Just tested using the ../ThirdParty/hi2text/ exe/zip files (9/30/2020) and MAME 0.225 and it can read the "agallet.hi" file. @Elhora is the hiscore.dat file in you ../plugins/hiscore folder dated August 16, 2020 or later? (possibly more like September 29, 2020) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elhora Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 hiscore folder is from 29 september. i think i'll try to redo a fresh install and if there is still the problem, i'll report to @GreatStone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 If MAME's not saving your high scores, (though he may have some ideas) it's not GreatStone's app that's having the issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 12, 2020 Author Share Posted October 12, 2020 4 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said: If MAME's not saving your high scores, (though he may have some ideas) it's not GreatStone's app that's having the issues. Keep in mind that a lack of an .hi file does *not* necessarily mean that high scores are not being saved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 15 minutes ago, Jason Carr said: Keep in mind that a lack of an .hi file does *not* necessarily mean that high scores are not being saved. Absolutely correct. That's why I mentioned about the nvram folders. I did do a hi2txt command line test on both agallet.hi and the agallet folder. The hi file showed expected results whereas the latter threw an error ("No XML description found for ROM"). But then you got me thinking... So I looked inside hi2txt.zip at agallet.xml and it's only looking for the hi file. I've seen other hi2txt xml's that will actually scan both the hi file the nvram folder. This one doesn't. That's why I'm fairly confident there's an issue with Elhora's MAME setup. The problem is, it's probably going to be one of those forehead slap, simple - overlooked things. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elhora Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 well, i did a fresh install of mame and it works again, at least for the 2/3 games i played. But i can't really figure what i did wrong the first time..... I just unzip mame, copy the rom, and import full set in launchbox. Nothing more nothing less. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coreyhustle Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 I’ve been meaning to post about this for a long time but it looks like their is a faulty high score on Dig Dug. The high score is like 1,515,101 or something close to that. I remember when high score feature first came out a few games were posting this for some reason and it was a glitch in on the LB side. Just wondering if this score can be corrected or removed. I don’t think it was malicious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 19, 2020 Author Share Posted October 19, 2020 10 hours ago, coreyhustle said: I’ve been meaning to post about this for a long time but it looks like their is a faulty high score on Dig Dug. The high score is like 1,515,101 or something close to that. I remember when high score feature first came out a few games were posting this for some reason and it was a glitch in on the LB side. Just wondering if this score can be corrected or removed. I don’t think it was malicious. As best I can tell, this looks like it was a faulty score. I went ahead and removed the score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rombo Deadfish Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 (edited) On 10/11/2020 at 4:56 PM, neil9000 said: You dont have to have cheats downloaded for them to be enabled. Check your mame.ini and see if there is a 1 after the cheats, 1 is enabled 0 is not enabled. What about the cheat and cheatfind settings in the MAME plugin.ini file? Both of those are set to on. Edited October 20, 2020 by Rombo Deadfish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbk70 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Hi, struggling to get a couple of games working. Most of my games are working fine, reporting the hi scores as you would expect, so I don't think there is anything fundamentally wrong with my setup. Specific games include Mr Do's Castle and Crazy Kong. I've attached the log file specific to Do Castle in the spoiler below. I've tried deleting the cfg file and the hi file, but to no avail. I'm scoring over 20k so it would definitely be appearing in at least the weekly scores list. If I play one of the alternative versions the hi scores are recorded in my profile, but not the original game. I've tried a different rom file. Help!!! Most likely something really stupid and obvious, but this is doing my head in Spoiler 2020-10-21 11:27:49 AM Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.ViewModels.MainViewModel.window.Activated Start 2020-10-21 11:27:49 AM Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.ViewModels.MainViewModel.window.Activated Before JoystickTimer Enabled Set 2020-10-21 11:27:49 AM Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.ViewModels.MainViewModel.window.Activated Before Resume Video 2020-10-21 11:27:49 AM Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.ViewModels.MainViewModel.window.Activated Before Check Already Focused 2020-10-21 11:27:50 AM MameHighScores.Parse: Running the following hi2txt command: "C:\Users\bigba\LaunchBox\ThirdParty\hi2txt\hi2txt.exe" -trace -r "C:\Users\bigba\Dropbox (Personal)\Kevin Cloud\Games\MAMEv22\hi\DOCASTLE.hi" -hiscoredat "C:\Users\bigba\Dropbox (Personal)\Kevin Cloud\Games\MAMEv22\plugins\hiscore\hiscore.dat" 2020-10-21 11:27:52 AM Processing hi2txt output for DOCASTLE: TRACE: working directory: C:\Users\bigba\LaunchBox TRACE: hiscore.dat: C:\Users\bigba\Dropbox (Personal)\Kevin Cloud\Games\MAMEv22\plugins\hiscore\hiscore.dat TRACE: game high score: C:\Users\bigba\Dropbox (Personal)\Kevin Cloud\Games\MAMEv22\hi\DOCASTLE.hi TRACE: game detected: DOCASTLE TRACE: potential file containing hiscore: C:\Users\bigba\Dropbox (Personal)\Kevin Cloud\Games\MAMEv22\hi\DOCASTLE.hi ERROR: No XML description found for ROM 'DOCASTLE' 2020-10-21 11:27:52 AM MameHighScores.Parse: No new scores found to upload! 2020-10-21 11:27:52 AM GameDetailsViewModel AttachView LoadVideoMusic Start 2020-10-21 11:27:52 AM GameDetailsViewModel LoadVideoMusic MusicNotPlaying Start 2020-10-21 11:27:52 AM Music.Prepare Start 2020-10-21 11:27:52 AM Music.Kill Start 2020-10-21 11:27:52 AM GameDetailsViewModel LoadVideoMusic MusicNotPlaying Complete 2020-10-21 11:27:52 AM GameDetailsViewModel AttachView LoadVideoMusic Completed 2020-10-21 11:27:52 AM Music.Kill Finished 2020-10-21 11:27:53 AM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Begin... 2020-10-21 11:27:53 AM Music.NotifyTrackList Start 2020-10-21 11:27:53 AM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Star rating faded nulling... 2020-10-21 11:27:53 AM Music.NotifyTrackList Invoke WPF 2020-10-21 11:27:53 AM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Video control dispose... 2020-10-21 11:27:53 AM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Video control nulling... 2020-10-21 11:27:53 AM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Invoking UI thread... 2020-10-21 11:27:53 AM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Nulling out all image sources... 2020-10-21 11:27:53 AM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Marking disposed true... 2020-10-21 11:27:53 AM GameDetailsViewModel.Dispose: Completed. 2020-10-21 11:28:04 AM Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.ViewModels.MainViewModel.window.Deactivated Start 2020-10-21 11:28:05 AM Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.ViewModels.MainViewModel.window.Deactivated Before Pause Video 2020-10-21 11:28:05 AM Unbroken.LaunchBox.Windows.Desktop.ViewModels.MainViewModel.window.Deactivated Completed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 In your MAME "hi" folder, is your "docastle.hi" actually being saved as "DOCASTLE.hi"? Or is your MAME rom file called "DOCASTLE.zip"? (Caps vs lowercase) 3 hours ago, bbk70 said: ERROR: No XML description found for ROM 'DOCASTLE' hi2txt is case sensitive when it comes to looking for the corresponding xml files. That is, it'll find "docastle.xml", but not "DOCASTLE.xml" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbk70 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 43 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said: In your MAME "hi" folder, is your "docastle.hi" actually being saved as "DOCASTLE.hi"? Or is your MAME rom file called "DOCASTLE.zip"? (Caps vs lowercase) hi2txt is case sensitive when it comes to looking for the corresponding xml files. That is, it'll find "docastle.xml", but not "DOCASTLE.xml" Thanks Joe, you're an absolute hero! I had to muck around a bit before I realised that I had to change the file name AND the extension (bloody Windows!) and then change the launch file name Launchbox as well (as Windows IS case sensitive!). Now just got to go back and get that high score again Cheers, much kudos! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rombo Deadfish Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 I think that I solved my cheats enable issue. It was already disabled in the MAME settings file but enabled in the Plug In settings. I disabled it but am still having an issue. Please review the attached log file. Debug 2020-10-25 02-58-26 PM.log Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Rombo Deadfish said: I think that I solved my cheats enable issue. It was already disabled in the MAME settings file but enabled in the Plug In settings. I disabled it but am still having an issue. Please review the attached log file. Debug 2020-10-25 02-58-26 PM.log 46.74 kB · 1 download Says in the log: ERROR: Wrong STAGE value (0x0F) encoding detected: it can be due to a temporary corrupted .hi or nvram file 2020-10-25 03:54:39 PM MameHighScores.Parse: No new scores found to upload! Might try moving to a temp location outside MAME or deleting these two files (I would try the nvram first): C:\LaunchBox\Emulators\Mame\nvram\digdug\earom C:\LaunchBox\Emulators\Mame\hi\digdug.hi Edited October 25, 2020 by sundogak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rombo Deadfish Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 24 minutes ago, sundogak said: Says in the log: ERROR: Wrong STAGE value (0x0F) encoding detected: it can be due to a temporary corrupted .hi or nvram file 2020-10-25 03:54:39 PM MameHighScores.Parse: No new scores found to upload! Might try moving to a temp location outside MAME or deleting these two files (I would try the nvram first): C:\LaunchBox\Emulators\Mame\nvram\digdug\earom C:\LaunchBox\Emulators\Mame\hi\digdug.hi The is no digdig.hi file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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