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upgraded from MAME 227/237 to 263


STEMALO

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Prior to MAME release 0.237, high scores were stored in the /hi/ subfolder.  Starting in MAME release 0.237, high score files are saved in /hiscore/.

If your MAME 0.263 is in its own (new) folder, create a subfolder "hiscore" (if it's not there already) and copy the contents from your old MAME's "hi" folder into it.

Some games store their high scores in the /nvram/ subfolder.  So copy that as well.

Though you might not be able to see your old high scores in 0.263.  Over the course of just over 3 years (0.227 to 0.263), how the save files are written (bits and bytes) may have changed for some (or possibly many) games.  There is no way to convert (update) them.

So, if you want to show off your old 'nasty hiscores', you may want to keep your 0.227 version in a separate folder.  

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