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    FBNeo high score saving trouble

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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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        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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            mitu Global Moderator
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            @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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              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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                  sirhenrythe5th @barbudreadmon
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                  @barbudreadmon oh, ok! sorry for double-posting, i did not have this in memory!

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                    WeirdH @barbudreadmon
                    last edited by

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

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                      barbudreadmon @WeirdH
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                      @WeirdH support added

                      FBNeo developer - github - forum

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                        WeirdH @barbudreadmon
                        last edited by 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?

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                          barbudreadmon @WeirdH
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                          @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.

                          FBNeo developer - github - forum

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                            WeirdH @barbudreadmon
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                            @barbudreadmon Been a while, found another: retofinv

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