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And even then it's only affecting you, I have this running on two different machines as well as an xp pro vm. Regardless you can delete hiscore.xml as its not used anymore. The new gameslist.txt is going to be downloaded for everyone making it a much faster and easier file to grab and use.

I'm really not sure why it's picking and choosing files it allows operations on, seeing as you can save changes to the settings.xml file and it's in the same folder. The issue you'll have is that it won't be updating so I'll have to keep pressing on until I find a suitable solution. Edit: never mind, there was a problem in the code where it was crashing if the gameslist.txt wasn't present. I'll fix that and you should be fine now. Thanks again for your help buddy!

@ArcadeFan: In many cases you can enable the snap best match feature and the spelling becomes less important.

Can you remove the .temp so it says gameslist.txt and try yet again? Let me know if it works then? If it can't rename the file itself there's still some crazy file permissions error on your machine that's not allowing changes to that file. It might still not do it but I can make changes after if it doesn't.

Can you put up your log for me? I'm probably going to have the plugin write the rom name on the snap of the override is engaged. In your case it would help identify the rom file, making the results even more genuine. Can I get a couple other users to test also? It's working swimmingly for me the way it is.

I'm sure it's due to the seedy way TTX games need to be run. That emulator is super temperamental and a bear to get up and running (specifically the os hooks that flip the screen). I'm sure the problem is there since you're basically emulating xp in a virtual machine setting.

I should also mention that I plan on using my snapshot class for a plugin that makes it possible to add missing title and in-game snaps on the fly for all games across all emulators while GameEx is running. This venture has proved to be a pretty successful one so expect to see that come in the future. I'd be lost if I ever ran out of ideas for plugins. My hope is that Tom doesn't have a limit to how many can be run at one time or I may just hit that limit someday. Lol! Thank you again to everyone who supports the hi-score competition. It's a pretty awesome thing GimmeClassics and hansolo77 have going here and I'm proud to be a part of it. It pleases me that I can donate my time and effort to make this unique feature even better. Kudos!

These are really nice Drac!

Hey! If you don't mind some additional testing, would you try the new version I uploaded? I am using a new method of getting ROM names that doesn't involve the Hi-Score DB, but instead a list of ROM names I added as a text file to the Database Manager's output. It's important that the snapshot plugin is only enabled for games in the competition. Otherwise there wouldn't be any check against clones and hacks when the snap is submitted. The new method is working fine in my machine but since yours is XP I'm interested in the results on your end. The snap size is based on your screen resolution but that's no big deal since the snapshot is in a compressed format anyways. If it bothers people I might add a setting so people can specify their own output sizes but I don't see that as a real benefit. The new version also has a mode for snaps when vanilla mame is not used. The snapshot class I wrote for this takes the snap by using the window handle, but if a different build is used it instead takes a snap of the whole screen. Users who play in full screen won't see any difference at all between them but users who play a different version in windowed mode will not reap the benefits of the window specific snaps. Thanks again for your help.

Awesome! Glad it works now! Many thanks for the testing Dazz! I'm gonna code something that uses a more graceful workaround for the next release, but this will work fine for you in the mean time. Again, thanks for your help.

Failed transfer. Try it now.

Oh man, my fault! I'm an idiot! Please go get it again.

Just uploaded a new beta for you to try, which should allow you to take the snap if there's a problem loading the hi-score XML.

I might have a workaround for situations like this. Let me know how your AV test turns out and if it doesn't help, I'll add in a workaround for you.

Is there any way you can try running it as administrator and confirm that it's a permissions problem? Wait, NM, I see you have admin rights already. Can you disable your AV software and run it?

My bad. Download it again, I forgot to click the "overwrite" button on the FTP.

Fixed. @Dazz: In case ya missed it, please download the beta from that link and try again. I have a feeling that I know what's happening here. I added more logging to confirm my suspicions.

Yeah it's supposed to do that. Download that again and try it, post the log after.

Can you post the contents of your HiScore.xml? It's not finding that ROM in the database.

I added a bunch more logging. Please run this and attach the plugin's log file. Is anyone else having problems? This is working well for me so far. I forgot to ask... Are you using vanilla MAME? It just occured to me that I need to add some code for other versions of MAME, since this is only looking for a handle from mame.exe (no biggie, I'll fix this in the next revision).

I'm gonna add some more logging and have you run it again. Hold on a minute.

Do you have a keyboard connected? Does it do anything if you hold SHIFT and then press HOME on the keyboard attached?

Hmm... Looks fine from here... Did you manually add ddraw to the command line before this log was generated? Also did you try holding SHIFT and pressing HOME on the keyboard just to be sure?

Can you do me a favor and post the contents? I can't download attachments in tapatalk.

Edit: oh you saying xml's as in the hi-score.xml is in there? If yes please run it again and post your GameEx log. You did enable the plugin from the plugin manager right?