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    FBNeo high score saving trouble

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    • WeirdHW
      WeirdH @barbudreadmon
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      @barbudreadmon Found another one: tubep

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      • sirhenrythe5thS
        sirhenrythe5th @WeirdH
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        Me too: Shanghai 3 (sunsoft).
        Got to the 4th level last evening and after a restart the highscores were gone.
        (I feel it....will be the same as with my 1st place in DoDonPachi III. I will never get this score again :D)

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          barbudreadmon @WeirdH
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          added !

          FBNeo developer - github - forum

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            barbudreadmon
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            Btw, i'll also mention this here, it is now possible to use hiscore with runahead in FBNeo, however it requires an up-to-date version of retroarch.

            FBNeo developer - github - forum

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            • WeirdHW
              WeirdH @barbudreadmon
              last edited by WeirdH

              @barbudreadmon Two more: ryujin and explbrkr

              EDIT: and pirates as well.

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                barbudreadmon @WeirdH
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                @WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

                ryujin

                Support was already implemented for this one, but this entry in hiscore.dat is wrong and only meant for the original ryujin romset which became ryujina when a more recent version of the pcb was discovered.

                It's trying to locate hiscores in the 68k cpu ram at 0x100000-0x103fff but the newer pcb has that ram at 0x400000-0x403fff, the original ryujin (now ryujina clone) indeed used 0x100000-0x103fff.

                If you feel like testing, assuming the hiscores are stored at the same offset of the same ram, ryujin hiscores might work if you replaced

                ryujin:
                ryujina:
                @:maincpu,program,103e3c,63,54,01
                @:maincpu,program,103f20,4,00,00
                

                by

                ryujin:
                @:maincpu,program,403e3c,63,54,01
                @:maincpu,program,403f20,4,00,00
                
                ryujina:
                @:maincpu,program,103e3c,63,54,01
                @:maincpu,program,103f20,4,00,00
                

                in hiscore.dat

                I added support for the 2 other games

                FBNeo developer - github - forum

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                • mituM
                  mitu Global Moderator
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                  I was playing The King of Dragons (kod) recently and noticed the hiscore is not saved.
                  The game has a hiscore.dat entry and I - briefly - checked the driver and it looks to have hiscore enabled, but there's no .hi file created. I checked with Mame (245) and it seems to behave similarly - no hiscores file is created.

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                    barbudreadmon @mitu
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                    @mitu the entry in hiscore.dat is probably wrong, imho kod is mistakenly grouped with kodr1 while it should be grouped with kodj. It's probably the same situation than ryujin, where original kod became kodr1 at some point.

                    FBNeo developer - github - forum

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator
                      last edited by mitu

                      @barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

                      It's probably the same situation than ryujin, where original kod became kodr1 at some point.

                      OK, I'll give it a shot with the kodj hiscore values.

                      EDIT: yes, you were right, moving the kod: entry next to kodj: saves the hiscore on exit.

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                      • WeirdHW
                        WeirdH @barbudreadmon
                        last edited by WeirdH

                        @barbudreadmon Found another one: matchit2

                        EDIT: both aforementioned ryujin and kod fixes worked for me as well, thanks!

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                          barbudreadmon @WeirdH
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                          @WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

                          matchit2

                          I'd really prefer those requests to be limited to games existing in hiscore.dat and/or games whose hiscores were confirmed as persistent in current MAME, as i won't be able to do much about their hiscores otherwise.

                          This one doesn't exist in hiscore.dat, does it save hiscores somehow in current MAME ?

                          FBNeo developer - github - forum

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                          • WeirdHW
                            WeirdH @barbudreadmon
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                            @barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

                            I'd really prefer those requests to be limited to games existing in hiscore.dat and/or games whose hiscores were confirmed as persistent in current MAME, as i won't be able to do much about their hiscores otherwise.

                            That's cool, I assumed you'd want to know about any game that didn't work, but I'll check them first from now on.

                            This one doesn't exist in hiscore.dat, does it save hiscores somehow in current MAME ?

                            Tested with Mame2003-Plus and it does not. It's also not present in the hiscore.dat, so I guess that checks out.

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                              barbudreadmon @WeirdH
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                              @WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

                              Tested with Mame2003-Plus and it does not. It's also not present in the hiscore.dat, so I guess that checks out.

                              I'd really recommend testing on current MAME, since MAME2003-Plus is less likely to be using the same dump (cf. ryujin or kod), but i suppose knowing hiscores worked sometime in the past can be helpful too.

                              On that note, following your request on shangon some time ago, i confirm the shangon2 entry in hiscore.dat is not meant for a modern shangon2 romset, it's actually meant for old bootlegs that were renamed long ago and that we don't even emulate in FBNeo (MAME2003-Plus is still using one of those bootlegs as shangon2). The good news is that i finally figured out how to save shangon's hiscores through nvram so we don't need the hiscore.dat entry anymore

                              FBNeo developer - github - forum

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                              • WeirdHW
                                WeirdH @barbudreadmon
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                                @barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

                                I'd really recommend testing on current MAME

                                That's a little trickier, as I don't really have an easy way of testing that right now. How current does it need to be? I might be able to get something working on an old pc I have lying around.

                                The good news is that i finally figured out how to save shangon's hiscores through nvram so we don't need the hiscore.dat entry anymore

                                That's wonderful! Is the update live yet?

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                                  barbudreadmon @WeirdH
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                                  @WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

                                  How current does it need to be?

                                  The more recent, the better, since we are using the same dumps as latest MAME.
                                  I think there is a script to install latest standalone MAME on retropie ? There are also MAME linux binaries (including arm and aarch64) available from https://stickfreaks.com/mame/, i suppose they are somehow official since i saw mamehaze linking them multiple times.
                                  Standalone is probably a better option than the libretro core for current MAME.

                                  @WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

                                  That's wonderful! Is the update live yet?

                                  Yes

                                  FBNeo developer - github - forum

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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    @barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

                                    I think there is a script to install latest standalone MAME on retropie ?

                                    Yes, there's a package that installs latest MAME binary release (0.245, the June release).

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                                    • sirhenrythe5thS
                                      sirhenrythe5th @mitu
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                                      just found another one: "King of Dragons" by Capcom (kod.zip) ;)

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                                        barbudreadmon @sirhenrythe5th
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                                        @sirhenrythe5th see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/279645

                                        FBNeo developer - github - forum

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                                        • sirhenrythe5thS
                                          sirhenrythe5th @barbudreadmon
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                                          @barbudreadmon oh, ok! sorry for double-posting, i did not have this in memory!

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                                          • WeirdHW
                                            WeirdH @barbudreadmon
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                                            @barbudreadmon Might have found another one. It's mentioned in the hiscore.dat at least. The game is uopoko.

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