Viewing High scores

[GimmeClassics]

I have two questions about GameEx showing highscores of MAME-games.

I use a compiled version of MAME (no nag screens and highscore support) and when I select a MAME-game in GameEX I have the option to show highscores of that game. Very cool!

1) Is there a possibility for GameEx to show more highscores. For example. Donkey Kong shows the default first five highscore positions. I would like GameEx to show more positions. Is there a plug-in for either Mame or GameEx to accomplish this?

2) When I choose GameEx to show the highscore of a MAME-game a popup-image is shown with the highscores of the selected game. Is it possible for GameEx to not show a popup-image but showing the highscores in the image2-location (in the same way for example a cabinet or marquee picture is shown)? This would look way better

Thanks!

[nullPointer]

I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that GameEx already has the ability to display high score information via an integrated utility called HiToText. This feature can be enabled on the MAME Settings screen under the Advance MAME Settings section via the 'Enable High Scores' field. I think that this feature contains all the functionality you describe in your questions ... when it's working correctly. Read on ...

The bad news is that HiToText hasn't been updated in quite a while and is incompatible with more recent MAME versions. I'm not really sure of the last version of MAME to support HiToText, but if you're really interested in this feature, I suppose you could always revert back to an earlier version of MAME (remember that you'll have to revert all your ROMs and CHDs back as well).

I'm hoping that Fyrecrypts jumps back in to the project at some point, because it's a really awesome utility. Alternately perhaps a motivated developer will take the reigns and and make the appropriate updates. The source is available via SourceForge,

[GimmeClassics]

Thank you nullPointer!

I will definitely look into this utility HiToText. From what I've read it doesn't sound too easy, but it has a lot of potential!

But then again > If I have questions there is this great forum to share my thoughts!

[GimmeClassics]

I've looked into the HiToText utility.

I have a compiled version of Mame (v 0147) with highscore support and the files "HiToText.exe" and "HiToText.xml" are present in my main GameEx-folder. Showing highscores of Mame-games is working well.

....But, what I would like to know:

1)

When I for example select Donkey Kong in GameEX I have the menu-option High Score. See screenshot:

When I press Enter I get the popup-screen with the first five highscore-positions See screenshot:

> Great so far, but is it possible for GameEx to show more positions?

2)

Is it possible for GameEx to not show a popup-image but showing the highscores in the image2-location? In the same way for example a cabinet or marquee picture is shown? See screenshot:

I hope somebody has a solution

[Draco1962]

This is how the feature was designed so no solution or workaround is available. I recommend that you post this in the

Feature & Enhancement Requests thread.

[GimmeClassics]

Thanks Draco.

I have posted my request in the Feature & Enhancement Request thread.

Link: http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/10189-feature-enhancement-requests/?p=98121