FBNeo high score saving trouble

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

am I correct in stating FBneo doesn't save hiscores for Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man?

No, those games should support hiscores.

How about the Aero Fighters / Sonic Wings and the Strikers 1945 series?

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

How about the Aero Fighters / Sonic Wings and the Strikers 1945 series?

Why ? They aren't working for you ?

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Strikers 1, 2 and 3 aren't, but Plus is. Aero Fighters 1 isn't as well, but tbh I haven't tested 2 and 3 there.

Getting settings from the test mode to stick in Strikers was also a hassle: had to enable 'test mode' in RGUI options, restart game to actually enter test mode, change settings and save, change test mode back to off in RGUI, exit test mode.

Is that the way it should work? In Mame2003-plus it's just a matter of pressing F2. But Strikers (2 and 3 in particular) get choppy in Mame sometimes, so I'd prefer FBneo.

EDIT: just did some more testing, and Aero Fighters 1 suddenly works... This is the second time something like that happens to me, it's so weird. (Sonic Wings 2 and 3 are also fine, so scratch those too...)

EDIT2: more testing: I swear to god this Pi is actively trying to discredit me! All Strikers now save scores fine too! I'm gonna go lie down.

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH ok, well, i would suggest you do lots more test before reporting hiscore issues in the future, that problem seems to happen a lot on your setup

Yes, that's how service mode works for those strikers games, not sure why tbh.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Yeah, sorry about that. I just think I have everything working fine and then something unexpected pops up and I jump the gun. Thanks for replying.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon I now have found a lack of high score saving in Change Air Blade (cairblad.zip). Previously, my problem was fixed by removing all fbneo-entries in retroarch-core-options, but even then, cairblad.zip doesn't save for me.

I noticed it IS mentioned in hiscore.dat, so it should be supported, right?

;******change air blade(By Firebrand)
cairblad:
@:maincpu,program,580030,b1,a0,01

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

I noticed it IS mentioned in hiscore.dat, so it should be supported, right?

No, it was said above :

@dankcushions said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

the presence of them in the hiscore.dat does not mean that FBN has them marked as supporting hiscores. a flag needs to be set in the code. https://www.fbalpha.com/view/138/

cairblad should now support hiscore.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

No, it was said above :

@dankcushions said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

the presence of them in the hiscore.dat does not mean that FBN has them marked as supporting hiscores. a flag needs to be set in the code. https://www.fbalpha.com/view/138/

That's right, I forgot about that.

cairblad should now support hiscore.

Awesome, many thanks!

I do get an error when updating from source, however:

Could not successfully install Arcade emu - FinalBurn Neo v0.2.97.44 (WIP) port for libretro (/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/lr-fbneo/preset-example.zip not found).

Is this due to the recent update to Retropie 4.6? (I'm still on 4.5 when receiving this error)

grant2258

I really dont see the point in having hiscore.dat then people would think a game being in there would support it so are you saying its safe to forget a the highscore dat and delete it or do people still need it and it only works if the flag is set in the driver?

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

Could not successfully install Arcade emu - FinalBurn Neo v0.2.97.44 (WIP) port for libretro (/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/lr-fbneo/preset-example.zip not found).

This is due to retropie trying to install a file that doesn't exist anymore.
@BuZz i sent a PR at https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3167

@grant2258 hiscore.dat is necessary because it contains the hiscore address, but the support still need to be enabled manually for each game, most of the time it's just a matter of adding the BDF_HISCORE_SUPPORTED flag to the romset and calling the HiscoreReset function at the end of the driver's Reset function

grant2258

maybe a notification when you have a hiscore in the dat and the flag isint enabled in the driver would help people out and make it easier to report or even a core option to always enable it.

barbudreadmon

@grant2258 i don't think any of those solutions would actually be possible with FBNeo, i might be wrong though, you should open an issue about it on github

grant2258

@barbudreadmon Well i would need to confirm standalone has the same issue first. There could be a message sent in a case this was true and a score was found in the dat even just for information sake you could stop at the point the information is found and not apply the cheat and display it needs added to the driver

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

This is due to retropie trying to install a file that doesn't exist anymore.
@BuZz i sent a PR at https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3167

How will I be able to know / see when this gets confirmed? (I have no idea how Github and pull requests work...)

mitu

@WeirdH It's already merged - you just need to update your RetroPie-Setup script and install from source again, this time it should be fine.

WeirdH

@mitu Won't the update to 4.6 mess something up?

mitu

@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

@mitu Won't the update to 4.6 mess something up?

Depends on which version you're on, but updating the setup script will not upgrade your installed emulators. It might upgrade some dependencies, (SDL, splashscreen, etc).

If you're afraid it might break something, then I guess you'll have to wait.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon I think I found two more: Sunset Riders, for which I use ssridersebd.zip (2-player version), and Daioh, which is just daioh.zip. The latter might not be fully supported, as it does stutter here and there , but I have warnings turned off, so can't say for sure.

@mitu said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

If you're afraid it might break something, then I guess you'll have to wait.

It works for now, but I will probably do a proper update later on.

WeirdH

@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

@barbudreadmon I think I found two more: Sunset Riders, for which I use ssridersebd.zip (2-player version), and Daioh, which is just daioh.zip.

@barbudreadmon Did you have a chance yet to check if my suspicions about these two games are correct?

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH ssriders should be ok since https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo/commit/ddf4ceaf973de3d121d819486c2a644555f74e42, daioh still doesn't save hiscore (it's failing for whatever reason, i have to look further into it)