FBA looses some highscores.

sirhenrythe5th

Hi Folks,

after years of optimizing my image is nearly perfect.
Just one thing that still annoys me:
I have 200 roms in the FBA-Folder.
They all work perfect.
But at least three of them have an odd issue.
When i make a highscores in "Ghost Pilots", "Twinklestar Sprites" or "Sonic Wings 3", they are saved - everything good.

But it always happens that the highscores randomly vanish when i start them at a later point.
Highscore reset, all gone, why?

The 197 other games dont do that.
Anyone has got similar experiences?

barbudreadmon

@sirhenrythe5th i have some questions :

which "FBA" emulator are you using ? there are several of them on retropie
are you using the thing that save a state when you quit the game and reload the state when you launch it ? (i don't remember the name, that's a retroarch setting)

I find it weird that you would have hiscore saving at all with neogeo and lr-fbalpha, i took a look at the neogeo code and apparently hiscores support was never properly implemented, which would mean the only way to save hiscores in neogeo games atm is what i mentioned above (the save/load state at exit/launch thing).

I'll add what is needed this week-end, however it won't work properly if you use the save/load state thing

sirhenrythe5th

@barbudreadmon

I use the default FBA that is used automatically when you put roms in the NeoGeo Folder.
FBA 2.9.7.44 i think is shown when i open retroarch, cant verify it atm, i am at my girlfriend right now.

No, i dont use the auto-state-saving function.
Never did it and never will 😊

Well, as far as we speak about highscores and not about save state....Yes, the highscore-saving works right from the start since i use Retropie starting with 2.4. a couple of years ago.
This does not only affect the NeoGeo Games in the Folder, but some other Arcade-Games i did put in the folder because they were not working with AdvanceMame, which i use for all the other Arcade-Games. "Raiden DX", "DoDonPachi III" to name two examples.
They all save highscores when i exit the game from the start without any modifications or setups by me!

I think this is concerned to the highscore.dat that is bundled within FBA.

However, i never had the problem that highscores were not saved at all (what would have me change to another emulator / system because playing those games without doesnt make sense to me), but that 1,5% of the Games seem to reset the highscores randomly.
I dont have an idea why ☺

sirhenrythe5th

One more thing: i realized that the first time you play a Game with FBA a Folder is created within the FBA ROM-Folder.
In this one Files are saved automatically which are named (i.e) "samshow2.sc".

I guess these are the highscore saves and "sc" stands for "score" (?)

barbudreadmon

@sirhenrythe5th said in FBA looses some highscores.:

I guess these are the highscore saves and "sc" stands for "score" (?)

?
lr-fbalpha doesn't create such files, the hiscore files have the .hi extension and are stored into the [savefile_directory]/fba/ folder, where [savefile_directory] is the folder defined by the savefile_directory setting in retroarch.cfg (i think it defaults to the current rom folder if not defined), it's also the folder where eeproms are stored (files with .nv or .fs extensions)

sirhenrythe5th

@barbudreadmon well, what can i say?
I know hi and nv Files very well from MAME.
But i have got these sc Files within the FBA ROM-Folder and it works great beside those three mentioned games.

I really did nothing to the default settings, i just put the roms in the folder and played them....

So, does that mean that i am the only Person in the World that has, by some kind of magic, highscore.saving in NeoGeo-Games????
Cannot believe that, anyone else can confirm that these sc Files are no miracle? Buzz, Mitu, please say something 😉

mitu

@sirhenrythe5th something, I guess.. What's in those files ?

barbudreadmon

@sirhenrythe5th said in FBA looses some highscores.:

But i have got these sc Files within the FBA ROM-Folder and it works great beside those three mentioned games.

All i can say is :

those .scfiles aren't from my emulator (i'm the author of lr-fbalpha)
apart from 6 games (and gpilots is actually one of those games), hiscore currently doesn't work for neogeo games (i tested to make sure i wasn't overlooking something)

You are wrong about something, i can't know what in your stead.

sirhenrythe5th

@barbudreadmon and Mitu: sorry, i just had a look in the folder, i have a copy of it on my smartphone.
It are fs-files that i meant!!!

These are as well in the main folder as in a seperate folder within the FBA ROM-Folder called "FBA".

Sorry for that, maybe i had "Sim City" in my head 😊

Anyhow, if even these fs Files are not responsible for the fact that FBA saves my highscores since i use Retropie, what the Heck is it?
Is it really fact that highscores are not saved by default?
I really did not change anything!!!!

P.S. It's a honor for me to talk to the author of lr-FBA thx a lot for that.

I will make a Video tomorrow when i am home again, where i play a Game, make a highscore, exit and start again so you can see that the highscore is still in the board. Of course without any cutting.

barbudreadmon

@sirhenrythe5th I just pushed hiscore support for neogeo games, rebuild from source and let me know if it fixed your issue

sirhenrythe5th

Tried it for some days now, seems to work!
Thank your very much barbudreadmon!!!