FYI proper save state support for Bubble Bobble and the other game in that driver Tokio wasn't added until a much later version of MAME
0.135u2: Fabio Priuli added save state support to Bubble Bobble driver.

@wstanek That's a nice idea, but you have no way of downloading the database of information.

@abiretropie said in High scores not saved:

@sirhenrythe5th I didn't know I was running a third party image. I was under the impression that I was running an old version of Retro Pie. My apologies.

It's both. It's a pre-installed image built a by a third party before it entered your possession (probably containing games and modifications). It's also an old version.

We don't support 3rd party image, as explained in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
Install the RetroPie image from https://retropie.org.uk/download and update the emulators, then try again and see if you can reproduce the error.

Bummer that there seems to be no way to do this.

I don't plan on cutting power without doing a normal shutdown regularly, but accidental unplugging is definitely a risk in my use case.

Thank you for the help!

@mitu Power switch as in "shut down gracefully?"

I also want to boot right into this one game and am not sure you still use E.S. when you implement this way. Was saving that for another search/question.

@barbudreadmon alright, thanks for the explanation. I'll switch off most of my systems on it so.

Thanks for the replies, explanations, and time !

and keep up the good work of course ;)

Well I solved my problem. Found that somehow I had given ownership of the apple II ROMs to "root". I restored ownership to "pi" and high scores are working now.

i think it might be simpler to have your arcade rom folder on the server: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Running-ROMs-from-a-Network-Share

this way, the mame .hi files themselves would be also on this server (see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003#high-scores), so you would both be using the same individual files. i guess you wouldn't be able to log scores on the same game at the exact same time.

@cyperghost Yeah I had actually skimmed those tutorials over briefly a long while ago when I was looking into what could be causing the high score garbage issues that were fixed in December with lr-fba. Sort of surprising to me that there is always a start and end marker byte.

@meleu said in Retroachievements Help:

I replied your other topic, and gonna repost here:
I think you can get some inspiration in this thread here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11793/gpio-triggered-by-retroachievements

That's really amazing and easy to do as you already presented a good solution :D

Probably related to https://github.com/libretro/fbalpha/issues/162 which was fixed 10 days ago.

I'm not sure the actual C64 saved highscores. I don't remember mine doing so.

Best bet would be to do a save-state and load from there.

I don't believe hot-keys work for save-states because vice is not a librettro emulator.

You might be able to press Alt-S on a keyboard to save, but I have not tried it yet.

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25010&sid=c1111ac7ce238621ff034e15cbd1642e

Did you check this ? http://greatstone.free.fr/hi2txt/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_(video_game)

More than a year later, North America and Europe received releases on the Nintendo Entertainment System in cartridge format, making the game the first home console title to include an internal battery for saving data.

which is why it works for that as the hardware/flash is emulated by the emulator.

some mame games support hiscore saving via a file which details the part of memory which contains the scores etc so the emulator can dump/reload that part. I don't know if any of the nes emulators have any functionality like this.

@meleu Yeah

Phoenix [ANY%] glitchless winner - @lilbud
Phoenix [ANY%] glitched winner @meleu