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Save High Scores on 70's games
#347485 - 11/27/15 06:43 AM
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Years ago, there was an addon to MAME that let you save high scores for games that never had a High Score feature in the game, usually games from the 70's. Does anyone kknow the name of that addon, soo I can find it again?
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Re: Save High Scores on 70's games
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#347486 - 11/27/15 06:57 AM
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I forgot to say, I'm using MAME32 0.90u1
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Re: Save High Scores on 70's games
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#347488 - 11/27/15 07:49 AM
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Most people use the current version 0.168 and just take a pic with their phone.
Much easier to share it on twitter, facebook, etc. If that's your thing.
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Re: Save High Scores on 70's games
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#347490 - 11/27/15 09:03 AM
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> Years ago, there was an addon to MAME that let you save high scores for games that
> never had a High Score feature in the game, usually games from the 70's. Does anyone
> kknow the name of that addon, soo I can find it again?
I don't think that how it works in the arcade. When you turn off the machine it get reset. Be pointless to save it on MAME.
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Re: Save High Scores on 70's games
[Re: Belfry1956]
#347493 - 11/27/15 09:47 AM
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>there was an addon to MAME that let you save high scores for games that never had a High
>Score feature in the game, usually games from the 70's.
I am guessing it is leezer's Hiscore.dat feature.
Although Highscore.dat is a useful feature and depending on what is being played, there might be bug issues when using Highscore.dat with MAME. MAMETesters will not accept bug reports if a user is running Highscore.dat in conjunction with MAME.
Save states support was eventually added to replace MAME's old highscore feature. Save states is what is officially recognized these days.
>I'm using MAME32 0.90u1
Going by what is on MAMEdev site, that version was from Jan. 2005
If wanting to stay with MAME32 0.90u1 because the computer running that version is a Pentium I series, or not wanting to update some complete rom set from that version, or the emulated game from that version seems to be perfect, okay.....but you will be missing lots of improvements to various 1970s era arcade games...depending on what games you play.
You could probably get by with updating to .106 version which was last version before Aaron Giles did the video overhaul rewrite in summer 2006.
Users had stayed with a specific version for just one game or two games such as for Phoenix audio and Asteroids audio as examples. The audio for those two were fixed long ago.
If 1970s era pong or non-cpu video games were your thing in arcades back then, you will need to get an updated version of MAME just to run those specific non-cpu videogames (currently only Pong, Pong Doubles, and Breakout supported, but maybe more later).
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