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!

@stoney66 said in High Scores Not Saving MAME2016: Do you have the same issue with lr-mame2003? I had issue many moons ago and replaced the hiscore.dat file with the one at the link below. I never tested 2016 though. It looks like the .dat file isn't needed anymore as each game has a .hi file saved in the roms/arcade/mame2003/hi directory. Maybe 2016 is the same path (up to the mame2003 part anyway). http://www.mameworld.info/highscore/download.htm https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003#high-scores @stoney66 it looks like my mame2003 games are saving but not mame2016. There was not a hi file in 2016 so I created one with no luck. I have already downloaded highscore.dat and tried it in several locations but none work. I just need to know where to place that file then maybe it will work. Or at least it would be nice if someone can confirm high score saving in mame2016.

@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 ;)

Ok, thanks

@ruicunha FYI, atm read ahead won't work jointly with hiscores on any arcade emulator, and there are good reasons for that, it's explained starting there : https://github.com/libretro/fbalpha/issues/209#issuecomment-481137426

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.

@markwkidd said in MAME 2010 High Scores?: I'm not positive what this comment in hiscore.dat means, but I have a feeling it might be related to the Gorf issue I checked the MAME 2003, MAME 2014, and MAME 2016 hiscore.dat but they're using the same hiscore memory map. :( Very strange. If you can think of any way for me to help test or troubleshoot let me know.

@edmaul69 I would like to meet him too. Also I would like to meet some of the twin galaxies officials and hear what happened behind the scenes.

@dankcushions Hey not a problem at all mate. I def wasnt trying to be pushy and I appreciate any assistance. At this point I'm using Save states (loading after a game starts and saving before I quit the game). Its an extra step at each end and to be honest its working well. We always want that little bit more hey. I'm thinking what if I went and did a fresh install of the entire Retropie....but as far as I can tell its not the Ras Pi or Retropie or any of that causing the issue...its seems more to be about how Reteoarch is working with data specifically in the realm of mame2003...I'm still leaning towards a permissions issue even though I've done as suggested...but maybe theres another way to ensure permissions...maybe using WinSCP ??? I may have misunderstood the original directions......so I expect a full reinstall would only send me back to the begining and may not resolve it at all...and I've made a few controller tweaks here and there and big scrapes...so Its hard to blow all that away. So great if you get another look at it then that'd be awesome. Otherwise I do have a backup from a while ago that would save me a bit of time and i believe take me back to the days of game saving so if it all goes the hell thats where I'll head first. Has me wanting a second pi to bomb up and see if I can sort it out then just swap it in. Thx again mate.

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.

@BuZz Thank you. I just realized I could configure this within the input configuration of mame4all. I was working too late last night I think.

@Lyle_JP said in Best Emulator / ROM Set for saving high scores?: What 8/16 bit console ever kept high scores? I just died laughing just now. Why on earth did they ever even put a high score system into games like Contra and Black Belt if they weren't going to save it on battery backup? Man, some poor kid was probably almost on that "NES Achievers" on Nintendo Power and lost his high score to not having a camera or his mom tripped over the power cord. O_o Well, trying to figure things out for MAME now anyway. (EDIT: Got it now, figured out I had to put hiscore.dat into ~/BIOS/mame2003/)

@gnome73 said in New to Retro Pi - have some questions: Im a RPi noob so hence why Im posting... have done some searching and the closest thing I found to answering my questions below is something called Attract but it appears to be a full reinstall of the RPi which I've only just got going so am a bit reluctant to do this welcome! :) My questions:- Is there a nicer interface than emulation station ideal for kids? I've seen some youtube videos where there is a very graphical interface when choosing the games and the background wallpaper changes to match the game as you scroll through the list of ROMS - how do I set this up? Also I've seen a youtube clip on the attract mod which shows the ROMs as a grid with the game covers - but dont want to do a full reinstall. that's attractmode. maybe someone can help you with the install, but i understand that right now it's easiest to use the full image (reinstall) Also is there a way to go straight to the ROM selection screen and have all ROMs in 1 easy to scroll through list regardless of their Emulator? it's possible but it would require a LOT of tweaking and file edits. Is there a way to permanently save high scores from ROMs? I did a search and there was a suggestion to use the latest mame emulator lr-mame2003 (I am Retro Pi 4.1 on a RPi 3). Which leads me onto my next and final question.. lr-mame2003, yes: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003#high-scores I tried to run MAME Roms using lr-mame2003 and none would work... upon doing some digging I found that the Neo Geo emulator is used for MAME games? Once i put the MAME Roms in the NeoGeo emulator folder they worked! huh go figure? therefor if I can only run MAME via Neo Geo - will Neo Geo save games? there's a lot going on here, huh? :) neogeo emulators should save games (why not try and find out?), but if you want to run mame games properly (the neogeo emulators will only run a subset of them), you should have a look at https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

standalone mame4all ? I believe that will save scores for some games by default. the libretro core may not though. if you have a rpi2 or rpi3 I would recommend lr-mame2003 advmame may work out of the box also - or you might need to feed it a hiscore dat. Consoles that had games which allowed saving will save - eg when you can save your progress. Ones which don't wont.