143u9 MAME build and hitotext

[dezblack]

I recently got back into updating to the newest MAME build. I downloaded all updated files for MAME, hiscore.diff, including the hiscore.dat from the dat-tastic and rebuilt to 143u9. Gameex no longer displays my hiscores for mame games and hitotext crashes when I try to launch a MAME game. I have tried clearing out the .hi files and tried every build I could think of (with and without different optimizations) using the newest mame compiler 64. I have tried posting in the official thread at BYOAC....crickets. Has anyone managed to have this actually working? If so, what was your process?

Is this a hitotext issue or a hiscore.diff issue do you think?

[mesk]

I stopped patching with the "no nag hi score" diff when it stopped some games from running.but i have never used hitotext.sorry

[dezblack]

I just edited the original post to make more since, I do realize hittotext and hiscore.diff are two seperate things but do not know which one is the issue. I did set a score in Tron and was able to close and reopen with it still there. So, I still assume the issue is in hitotext.