AdvanceMame Hi-score save

[challenger2010]

Quick question, does AdvanceMame save hi scores if I use the right .dat file?

Thanks:)

[challenger2010]

@amadvance Hello, does hi score saves work with AdvanceMame? I assume I need a .dat file. Where do I put it :)

Thanks!

[amadvance]

Yes. You need the hiscore.dat file.

You can put it in $HOME/.advance/ or in /usr/local/share/advance/

[zmanz]

@amadvance said in AdvanceMame Hi-score save:

hiscore.dat

Is it the same hiscore.dat file that works with mame2003? If not where can the .dat file be located?

[mediamogul]

@zmanz

You'll need the older format, pre v0174. It can be found here.

[sirhenrythe5th]

This didn't work in my case.
I recognized that putting the Highscore.dat in. /.advance makes no effect (using AdvanceMame 3.4). This folder seems to be untouched anyway, in fact all the .hi &. Nvram Files are saved directly in the ROM-Folder.

So i searched on and found the regular Highscore.dat in /opt/retropie/emulators /advmame/share/advance.

This seems to be the right place to put another Highscore.dat and the downloaded pre0.174-File is indeed bigger than the default one.

Only remaining Problem for me: i cannot copy in this folder, tells me "Permission denied (13)" :(

What can i do to get the Permission to overwrite the dat-File in this folder?
Thanks a lot in advance!

[backstander]

@sirhenrythe5th

Only remaining Problem for me: i cannot copy in this folder, tells me "Permission denied (13)" :(

I would just push the file over to somewhere you can read (like /home/pi/) and then SSH in and manually move it using the command line.

Example:

sudo mv /home/pi/**WHAT EVER THE FILENAME IS HERE** /opt/retropie/emulators/advmame/share/advance/

[sirhenrythe5th]

@backstander Done. Worked! Thanks a lot backstander!!! 👍

[edmaul69]

@backstander if you give user root a password , then on your ssh program you just log in as root and you can dump the files anywhere on the pi without getting permissions denied.