FBNeo high score saving trouble

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...

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

Aaand both tutorials start with 'compile your own version of mame', so I'm already out.

I think standalone mame now has debugger enabled in its binary releases, but i might be wrong.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

@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

Uhm, it does now...

I decided to poke around in the test menu and saw some glitched characters where text should obviously be. I clicked on 'initialize eeprom' and had to confirm twice.

After that, the text glitches were gone and it now seems to save scores. It does in 'training' mode at least, I haven't yet tried the others.

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH ok, that means the highscore is probably saved in the eeprom, that's good to know

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Found another one: Hotdog Storm (hotdogst)

I am on FBNeo 1.0.0.01 now, so I don't know if that requires an updated hiscore.dat as well?

barbudreadmon

@weirdh said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

@barbudreadmon Found another one: Hotdog Storm (hotdogst)

Hmm no, i just confirmed that one's hiscores work properly.

@weirdh said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

I am on FBNeo 1.0.0.01 now, so I don't know if that requires an updated hiscore.dat as well?

I don't think so, i very rarely update FBNeo repo's hiscore.dat (the one i use for my tests), but maybe you picked yours elsewhere, or maybe yours is corrupted or something. It can't hurt to re-download the one from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libretro/FBNeo/master/metadata/hiscore.dat

barbudreadmon

@weirdh also maybe make sure you don't have runahead enabled

saccublenda

I think Bomb Jack (bombjack.zip) doesn't save high scores in fbneo.

sirhenrythe5th

@saccublenda neither does bombjack twin

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Thanks, that is weird, I'll do some more testing. I got the hiscore.dat from that very link, so hopefully it's still fine. I also don't use runahead.

EDIT: confirmed working here as well. I must've been doing something wrong again. Thanks for still replying, though!