FBNeo high score saving trouble
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@barbudreadmon just another question concerning highscores.
I had an odd experience with "Demon Front" (IGS) recently:
i played it and was able to enter highscores. They were saved - everything great.
The next day, without updating or changing anything in the RA-Options, the language changed from english to korean(?), mandarin(?), i dont know - something asian.
So instead of "ALX" i was only able to enter hyroglyphes :D
Do you have an idead why this happened? It is still asian now, did not change back :/ -
@sirhenrythe5th i've heard of that issue on pgm once but was never able to reproduce it, since those settings (language & hiscores) are both written in the nvram, i suspect that nvram got corrupted for some reason, tbh it might even be a hardware bug. Did you try switching to another region then back to "world" in dipswitches ? Actually, is your region still set to "world" ?
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Thank you for response barbudreadmon!
I realized that the last two options in RA for this game are the region-dips, who are declared as "hacks".
I did not touch those but thought also that these two settings are responsible for the shown language.
Thank you for the hint with the nvram!, i will try to change the region-setting and if does not have any effect i will try to delete the nv-file.Kind regards and thanks again! ;)
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@barbudreadmon Confirmed as being ok now. Thanks again.
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@barbudreadmon Maybe another one, though it's not easy to test, as the game doesn't show the high score list in its attract mode. Battle Bakraid (
bbakraid.zip) doesn't seem to save scores for me. -
@WeirdH are you sure ? this one should save hiscores already
edit : nvm, actually the game probably doesn't save hiscores, the hiscore support code is in FBNeo indeed, but there is no entry for this game in
hiscore.dat -
@barbudreadmon Found one more: Mystic Warriors (
mystwarr.zip)Also, can I add an entry for
bbakraidmyself? -
@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:
Also, can I add an entry for bbakraid myself?
Do you understand how those entries work ? If interested it seems there is a tutorial at https://highscore.mameworld.info/tutorial.htm
Added support for
mystwarr. -
@barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:
Added support for
mystwarr.Cool, thanks a lot.
Do you understand how those entries work ? If interested it seems there is a tutorial at https://highscore.mameworld.info/tutorial.htm
No, but I could try.
Aaand both tutorials start with 'compile your own version of mame', so I'm already out. Wow, finding that hiscore information is not a hassle free process, to say the least...
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@WeirdH said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:
Aaand both tutorials start with 'compile your own version of mame', so I'm already out.
I think standalone mame now has debugger enabled in its binary releases, but i might be wrong.
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@barbudreadmon said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:
@WeirdH are you sure ? this one should save hiscores already
edit : nvm, actually the game probably doesn't save hiscores, the hiscore support code is in FBNeo indeed, but there is no entry for this game in
hiscore.datUhm, it does now...
I decided to poke around in the test menu and saw some glitched characters where text should obviously be. I clicked on 'initialize eeprom' and had to confirm twice.
After that, the text glitches were gone and it now seems to save scores. It does in 'training' mode at least, I haven't yet tried the others.
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@WeirdH ok, that means the highscore is probably saved in the eeprom, that's good to know
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@barbudreadmon Found another one: Hotdog Storm (
hotdogst)I am on FBNeo 1.0.0.01 now, so I don't know if that requires an updated hiscore.dat as well?
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@weirdh said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:
@barbudreadmon Found another one: Hotdog Storm (
hotdogst)Hmm no, i just confirmed that one's hiscores work properly.
@weirdh said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:
I am on FBNeo 1.0.0.01 now, so I don't know if that requires an updated hiscore.dat as well?
I don't think so, i very rarely update FBNeo repo's hiscore.dat (the one i use for my tests), but maybe you picked yours elsewhere, or maybe yours is corrupted or something. It can't hurt to re-download the one from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libretro/FBNeo/master/metadata/hiscore.dat
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@weirdh also maybe make sure you don't have runahead enabled
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I think Bomb Jack (
bombjack.zip) doesn't save high scores in fbneo. -
@saccublenda neither does bombjack twin
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@barbudreadmon Thanks, that is weird, I'll do some more testing. I got the hiscore.dat from that very link, so hopefully it's still fine. I also don't use runahead.
EDIT: confirmed working here as well. I must've been doing something wrong again. Thanks for still replying, though!
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@saccublenda said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:
I think Bomb Jack (
bombjack.zip) doesn't save high scores in fbneo.@sirhenrythe5th said in FBNeo high score saving trouble:
@saccublenda neither does bombjack twin
I just added support for both.
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@barbudreadmon Thanks.
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