Re: Hi scores written but cannot be read!?

Evil Jay <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:48:55 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.games.mame.advancemame.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hiscores were disabled in .107u2, not .105.  I have AM .106 running on
my cabinet and the hiscores work fine.

Make sure that the ID running AM has the ability to write to the
.advance/hi directory.

-J


Simon Tetu wrote:
> I always had this value, its:
>
> dir_hi  .advance/hi
>
>
> But, is it possible that I have to re-enable hiscores in the source
> files and recompile advancemame
> since I was told the hiscores were disabled since v105?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Evil Jay
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> You should have another entry in your .rc:
>>
>>     dir_hi /path/to/hi
>>
>>  That's the directory in which AM .106 will actually save highscores.
>>
>>  -J
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Simon Tetu wrote:
>>  > Hi everyone, I have a problem with my cabinet,
>>  > I've just recompiled the latest advancemame (v106) for linux, setup my
>>  > modelines for my WG9200
>>  > and everything works great except for my hiscores...
>>  >
>>  > I tested blktiger and did a highscore, entered my initials, waited for
>>  > the intro to come back, then exited the game.
>>  > When I replayed blktiger the high scores are the default ones.
>>  >
>>  > There's nothing in my  ~/.advance/hi
>>  >
>>  > and the line
>>  >
>>  > misc_hiscorefile hiscore.dat
>>  >
>>  > is indeed present in  ~/.advance/advmame.rc so everything should be fine no?
>>  > (The hiscore.dat file is also in ~/.advance directory, and the cheats
>>  > are disabled in my advamame.rc)
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Anybody had any similar problems?
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Advancethanks,
>>  > Simon
>>  >
>>
>>
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