FBNeo high score saving trouble

barbudreadmon

@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

WeirdH

@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?

barbudreadmon

@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

mitu

@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).

sirhenrythe5th

just found another one: "King of Dragons" by Capcom (kod.zip) ;)

barbudreadmon

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

sirhenrythe5th

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

WeirdH

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

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH support added

WeirdH

~~@barbudreadmon metamrpj doesn't save scores for me in Mame2003-plus, but the code mentioned in hiscore.dat seems to be similar on both FBneo and M3+:~~

FBN @:maincpu,program,203240,35,00,5a
M3+ 0:203240:35:00:5a

~~Does this mean both cores are accessing the same "hiscore-place"? (you can see by my technical lingo how knowledgable I am about this function)~~

~~And if so, is there a way I can update the M3+ datfile to work? (as my Pi3 is too slow to adequately run the game on FBN, unfortunately)~~

~~Or should I open a new thread for this question?~~

EDIT: I just noticed that the M3+ datfile mentions the game as metamrphj, but clrmamepro gives me an M3+ file named metamrpj, which appears to be the old name.

So is the M3+ datfile referencing the wrong name?

EDIT 2: Yes, it is. I just removed the 'h' in the datfile as a test and now the game saves scores. Should I report this somewhere?

barbudreadmon

@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:

Should I report this somewhere?

The hiscore homepage is at https://highscore.mameworld.info/, you can send emails to the author.

WeirdH

@barbudreadmon Been a while, found another: retofinv