@dankcushions Yeah I used the TAB button to get into that setup menu, setup the controllers, but I don't see a save function anywhere. So when I leave the game, the settings go away and have to be re-entered to when you play that game again. That's the problem I am having with ADVMame and others. I'll try manually creating the file but as I've stated, complete novice and not sure if I'm able :D But totally willing to try.

@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.

Ok, thanks

as always, you solved the problem. Thank you @mitu

@sscalley Thank you! This was exactly my issue as well, although I was using a pre-made image from somewhere else that had the same permissions issues. For me, since my gamelist.xml files were in the roms directory, I needed to do the following: cd ~\retropie\roms sudo ./ -name 'gamelist.xml' -exec chown pi:pi {} \; Worked great!