FBNeo high score saving trouble

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)

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Cool, I'll check it out soon.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Another report: Arcadia (arcadian.zip) doesn't save scores either. I also tested it's clone Rapid Hero (raphero.zip) and same result.

sirhenrythe5th

Another one: "Prehistoric Isle" (1989 / SNK) does not save highscores.
Just played it yesterday - the game has achievements since a few days :D

barbudreadmon

Support added for arcadian, prehisle and clones.

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH support added for daioh (special thanks to dink who helped me on this one)

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Great! Thanks a lot to the both of you.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Found another one: Tutankham (tutankhm.zip)

EDIT: and another one: Thunder Cross 2 (thndrx2.zip)

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH i didn't test them but they should be ok now

sirhenrythe5th

@barbudreadmon just another question concerning highscores.
I had an odd experience with "Demon Front" (IGS) recently:
i played it and was able to enter highscores. They were saved - everything great.
The next day, without updating or changing anything in the RA-Options, the language changed from english to korean(?), mandarin(?), i dont know - something asian.
So instead of "ALX" i was only able to enter hyroglyphes :D
Do you have an idead why this happened? It is still asian now, did not change back :/

barbudreadmon

@sirhenrythe5th i've heard of that issue on pgm once but was never able to reproduce it, since those settings (language & hiscores) are both written in the nvram, i suspect that nvram got corrupted for some reason, tbh it might even be a hardware bug. Did you try switching to another region then back to "world" in dipswitches ? Actually, is your region still set to "world" ?

sirhenrythe5th

Thank you for response barbudreadmon!

I realized that the last two options in RA for this game are the region-dips, who are declared as "hacks".
I did not touch those but thought also that these two settings are responsible for the shown language.
Thank you for the hint with the nvram!, i will try to change the region-setting and if does not have any effect i will try to delete the nv-file.

Kind regards and thanks again! ;)

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Confirmed as being ok now. Thanks again.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Maybe another one, though it's not easy to test, as the game doesn't show the high score list in its attract mode. Battle Bakraid (bbakraid.zip) doesn't seem to save scores for me.

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH are you sure ? this one should save hiscores already

edit : nvm, actually the game probably doesn't save hiscores, the hiscore support code is in FBNeo indeed, but there is no entry for this game in hiscore.dat

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Found one more: Mystic Warriors (mystwarr.zip)

Also, can I add an entry for bbakraid myself?

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

Also, can I add an entry for bbakraid myself?

Do you understand how those entries work ? If interested it seems there is a tutorial at https://highscore.mameworld.info/tutorial.htm

Added support for mystwarr.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

Added support for mystwarr.

Cool, thanks a lot.

Do you understand how those entries work ? If interested it seems there is a tutorial at https://highscore.mameworld.info/tutorial.htm

No, but I could try.

Aaand both tutorials start with 'compile your own version of mame', so I'm already out. Wow, finding that hiscore information is not a hassle free process, to say the least...