MAME hiscores supposed to show in info page?

[DazzleHP]

Hi all,

Whilst going through gameex config to redirect my mame paths (after updating to 144) i noticed the "enable highscores" option, so selected Yes expecting it to show somewhere on the game info page. However i see nothing, and am now wondering if it indeed is supposed to show on the info page? Or whether other options must be configured?

To confirm i do have a custom compile with the hiscore.diff patched in and it is working OK.

Showing hiscores in gameex itself sounds freakin awesome! That is, if that is what "enable highscores" is supossed to to! I read somewhere on here something about it a while back, but my friend Jack was here and so cannot remember either the information in it, or where the hell the thread is lol

Its no biggy but still, nice to have all the features! I fear i'll never stop tinkering with GE...

...and i don't think i ever want to!

any help most appreciated guys n guyettes

[nullPointer]

This functionality relies on HiToText for proper operation. Unfortunately there have been a number of reports regarding problems between HiToText and more recent versions of MAME. Here are a few threads regarding these issues:

HiToText (Version 2010.11.4)

143u9 MAME build and hitotext

HI to Text crashing

I believe that Hunk_4th looked into this issue fairly extensively at one point. Unfortunately I don't think his findings were sunshine and rainbows. The HiToText project appears to be dead? (or at least stagnant).

[DazzleHP]

Thanks for the links!

It does seem it is a lost cause... shame.

Oh well can't have it all

Cheers again, much appreciated!