cimerians Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 I noticed my mame directory and the 'hi' directory are set as read only, I also cannot change the directory's attribute. Any ideas why hi scores aren't saved? thanks in advance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpmxxipt Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 Yeah, I noticed that too! Just for goofs I've been trying to see if I can't beat the world record for Bank Panic and I wouldn't mind having the high scores saved. BTW, I'm nowhere close - my best so far is somewhere in the 700,000 range. Whoever had 1,200,000 points was either a machine or had a spotter, I think! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 You guys do have the hiscore.dat file, right? I don't think it comes with MAME. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted May 31, 2004 Author Share Posted May 31, 2004 Yup downloaded the hiscore.dat file but still no saves. I thought the dat file was for games that did support hi-scoring? Bank Panic is a cool game....I'm currently addicted to Guzzler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpmxxipt Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 Well, I downloaded the alternate hiscore.dat file they listed at mame.net and put it in my main Mame32 directory and that did the trick for me! Thanks for the tip! Amazing how long you can play something like this and not know something so simple! I've never tried Guzzler, I'll have to check it out. My three obsessions right now are beating 10-yard Fight (seems to be all luck at the last level), getting through all 5 difficulty levels of each stage in Circus Charlie (level select) sequentially, and Bank Panic like I said. My wife thinks I'm nuts, but my 4-year old kid thinks it's pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 Yup downloaded the hiscore.dat file but still no saves. I thought the dat file was for games that did support hi-scoring? Well, the hiscore.dat file is just a list telling MAME where (in memory) games store their high-scores so that MAME can save that information and restore it when you start the game again. If a game isn't listed in the file, then you can't save high scores for it at all. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAZ Posted June 15, 2004 Share Posted June 15, 2004 Well some games function only by locating a special NVRAM file. I remember having to do this for Q-Bert specifically. I can't explain why I needed this special file, but it was true. Some games need a special nvram file, as they won't work with just the hiscore.dat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAZ Posted June 15, 2004 Share Posted June 15, 2004 Ooops, by "work" I mean whether you can save high scores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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