FBNeo high score saving trouble

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon It does. And selecting Africa starts Asia stages, Asia starts America and America starts Europe.

EDIT - did a little more testing: shangonle behaves the same way with the stage order. I also tried regular hangon, which doesn't have a stage select, but also doesn't save hiscores, despite being present in hiscore.dat (at least, if I'm reading it correctly).

This is on FBNeo built from source on March 19th on an RPi 3B+.

(And I just checked: regular hangonalso doesn't save scores in MAME2003-plus.)

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH Hmmm what kind of controller are you using ? I'm wondering if it could be some kind of input issue where pressing start also triggers brake on your setup. Does pressing start somehow brake when you are driving ? Eventually you could also check that through the input test in service menu. I can't think of any other explanation for your issue atm.

It was normal for hangon to not save hiscores (support code was missing, now it should be ok). Idk for shangon and clones, the entries in hiscore.dat might be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time (i remember the toutrun entry from the same driver being broken until ~2 years ago).

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

@WeirdH Hmmm what kind of controller are you using ?

Dragonrise usb encoder, with a bunch of arcade buttons attached.

I'm wondering if it could be some kind of input issue where pressing start also triggers brake on your setup. Does pressing start somehow brake when you are driving ? Eventually you could also check that through the input test in service menu. I can't think of any other explanation for your issue atm.

Good call! This is exactly what's happening, according to the test menu. Is there a way around it, or is it some quirk of the encoder?

EDIT: just did some fumbling around with the controls in RGUI. My start button (L2 button trigger) somehow always registers as 'brake', even when it's not even assigned to anything. So naturally, when assigned to 'start 1', it registers as both functions simultaneously. I don't recall seeing this behaviour in any other game.

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

Is there a way around it, or is it some quirk of the encoder?

The core registers inputs as different buttons (by default, start for start, and L2 for brake), so if 2 inputs are being triggered by pressing 1 button on your setup, this is something about your settings or encoder.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Okay, I thought that whatever customized control you configure in RGUI would override the core default (I had mine saved as game keymap shangon.rmp for instance), but I guess it doesn't work like that...?

By the way, my start button (still L2) also registers as brake in regular hangon, but it doesn't cause a selection hiccup there. Also had a custom hangon.rmp saved.

Anyway, I'll do some mucking about with my autoconfigs and inputs and the like to see if I can find a way that works for me. Thanks for thinking with me on this.

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

I guess it doesn't work like that...?

No idea, i never use remapping, it might be a retroarch bug.

Edit: yeah, probably a retroarch bug, i can reproduce it, remapping L2 or R2 doesn't seem to work properly, my 2 cents would be that it has to do with the fact those are special buttons that can be used as both analog and digital.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

Edit: yeah, probably a retroarch bug, i can reproduce it, remapping L2 or R2 doesn't seem to work properly

Should I report this somewhere?

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH Someone already reported this last year : https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/12596

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Ahh, so now we wait... *touching fingertips while grinning maniacally

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Found two more: blstroid (not a very good or fun game, but still) and blazeon.

EDIT: and a third: flytiger

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH done

sirhenrythe5th

"Space Invaders ´95" (TAITO) got retro-achievements yesterday.
While playing this gem i realized that i does not save highscores yet ;)

@WeirdH: i remember that "Blasteroids" was quite a hit when it was released as an arcade-conversation for CBMs Amiga & Atari STs in 88 or 89. It is not such a bad game, there are worse ones IMO :D

barbudreadmon

@sirhenrythe5th said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

"Space Invaders ´95" (TAITO) got retro-achievements yesterday.

Taito F3 driver should be ok now

sirhenrythe5th

@barbudreadmon great, thank you very much and happy weekend!

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

@barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

Edit: yeah, probably a retroarch bug, i can reproduce it, remapping L2 or R2 doesn't seem to work properly

Should I report this somewhere?

I believe retropie setup script doesn't allow updating to latest retroarch, but fwiw this bug was fixed yesterday.

WeirdH

@sirhenrythe5th said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

@WeirdH: i remember that "Blasteroids" was quite a hit when it was released as an arcade-conversation for CBMs Amiga & Atari STs in 88 or 89. It is not such a bad game, there are worse ones IMO :D

Yeah, I remember playing it on MS-DOS and being blown away by the graphics. But it has an ever depleting energy bar that just kills the enjoyment for me.

@barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

I believe retropie setup script doesn't allow updating to latest retroarch, but fwiw this bug was fixed yesterday.

Great, that's good to know. Will the setup script be updated to allow this later on, or can I update retroarch manually?

EDIT: found some fairly recent Reddit posts by @sleve_mcdichael suggesting it's not recommended and also a bit YMMV, so I'll refrain from manual tinkering.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Found another one: chqflag

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH support added

sirhenrythe5th

Is there support for the new CAVE1000-roms/driver?
At least "DoDonPachi Daifukkatsu" did not save highscores yesterday evening :)

barbudreadmon

@sirhenrythe5th Added, there is this note about cv1k in hiscore.dat :

;***** saves todays top scores (others are saved in nvram) ******

Not sure if it concerns all cv1k games or only the one listed right after the note (akatana)