﻿WHAT IS PINEMHI LEADERBOARD ?
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PINemHi LeaderBoard is a program that catches the score and specialscores from player 1
The normal score doesn't have to be on the hiscore table of the game, even scores like 1000 can be submitted.
Special scores however can only be submitted if they are over the score of the hiscore table.
Special scores are for instance , 20 loops (back to the future) or 50 martians killed (attack from mars) and so on...
If you wanna go for SPECIAL SCORES the use of a new,clean nvram might be handy as you can get the scores more easy (especially helpful when trying to get a challenge)

If you have a nice score, just don't start a new game but just quit the game, PINemHi LeaderBoard will do the rest.
When quitting a game you don't have to rush , just as long as you don't start a new game the score(s) can be retrieved.


WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO MAKE THIS WORK PROPERLY
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1) Make sure you use PinBallX version 1.76 or higher
2) Install the contents of the PINemHi_LeaderBoard_Plugin zipfile to your PinBallX directory
3) Get your name and code from www.pinemhi.com/hiscores.php (Click on the "We Want You to Join Us" picture)
4) Fill in the path to your nvram directory in the pinemhi_leaderboard.ini file  nvram=x:\vpinball\nvram\  (very important , do not forget the last backslash)
5) Fill in the path to your fpram directory in the pinemhi_leaderboard.ini file  fpram=x:\future pinball\fpram\  (very important , do not forget the last backslash)
6) Fill in the path for VP in pinemhi.ini , VP=X:\Visual Pinball\nvram\   (very important , do not forget the last backslash) 
7) Fill in the path for FP in pinemhi.ini , FP=X:\Future Pinball\fpRAM\   (very important , do not forget the last backslash)
8) Fill in your name and code in the pinemhi_leaderboard.ini that you got from the website www.pinemhi.com/hiscores.php, for example
   name=PinballFreak
   code=vjhv82
9) Decide if you want PINemHi LeaderBoard to send tweets of your scores , using tweet=0 or 1 ( 1 means on ) in the pinemhi_leaderboard.ini (twitteraccount Leaderboard@PINemHi)
10) Open Pluginmanager in your PinBallX directory and use the checkmark to turn PINemHi LeaderBoard on


WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE YOU START
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1) When playing a table for the first time (after PinBallX version 1.76 or higher was installed) that score will not submit
   This has to do with new functions that have been introduced to PinBallX (version 1.76 and up) to make this plugin work. (Thanks go to Tom Speirs for his great work on the PinBallX frontend and the continous support of it)
   Easiest way is to just quit the first game after a minute of gameplay and the start the game again and off you go !!
2) Only a certain amount of games are supported (this number will grow of course), check www.pinemhi.com/hiscores.php to see which games are included.
3) If you have some trouble with submitting a score , please read the pinemhi_leaderboard_log.txt that is located in \Plugins\PINemHi LeaderBoard directory.
   This way you can perhaps troubleshoot the problem yourself , It will only log the last game run by the way. 


THE RULES  !!! (to keep it a nice, clean and friendly competition)
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*** Only use the default settings from the roms ***
*** Use the standard 3 balls (or 5) per game ***
*** Don't use buyin's (extra balls) and all that kind of stuff ! ***
*** Earned extra balls in the games , mark the word "earned" are of course allowed ***
*** Select the normal mode of play for a table ! (some have different kind of modes to choose from) ***

And last but not least...... 
 *** Cheating is of course always possible but this is just a friendly competition so please fight the urge if you should have it ***  :-)


ANYTHING ELSE ?
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Did you know you can do challenges and level up when completing them using the website (www.pinemhi.com/hiscores.php)
Did you know you can earn badges by achieving things
*** 3 different levels of challenges....kiddie, leaderboard and InSaNe..... ***
*** 40 badges in total (for now) ***
We have CUP Standings !!!
You can make all kind of queries on the database using the pulldown menu's , from the top 10 to the top 100 per table or just your scores on the table.

Have Fun,

Dna Disturber