HiToText: is it GameEx or...?

[GimmeClassics]

Hello everybody,

I have yet another question about GameEx showing the highscore menu-option in the gamemenu.

Donkey Kong is working as I want it to work. The HiToText-tool creates a ''.hi-file'' in my ''hi-folder'' , GameEx is showing the highscore menu-option and Mame is also showing my highscores (initials DEN) when I am ''in-game''. See both screenshots:

Question: when I for example play the mame-game ''1943'' the following happens:

The HiToText-tool creates a ''.hi-file'' in my ''hi-folder'' and Mame is showing my highscore when I am ''in-game'' (initials DEN). See screenshot:

GameEx is however not showing the highscore menu-option. See screenshot:

>>> Is this a GameEx issue as Mame is showing my highscore when I am ''in-game'' and the HiToText-tool also creates a .hi-file. The only flaw seems to be in GameEx not showing the highscore menu-option.

I'd love to hear from you guys if GameEx is not working well at this point or that my arguments are invalid?

Thanks!

[Draco1962]

What happens when you click on More?

[GimmeClassics]

What happens when you click on More?

GameEx shows by default the game/cab-manual when you select ''More'' in the Mame game-menu.

So this is sadly not the solution.

[nullPointer]

I would go out on a limb to say this is due to the same factors with HiToText we've discussed in other threads. Remember that HiToText is not responsible for saving high scores. That functionality is handled via patching MAME with a high score patch. So it's actually your patched version of MAME that creates the .hi files. All HiToText does is to parse those .hi files as XML (which is then read by GameEx). If HiToText cannot parse the .hi file correctly then it will prevent high score information from being displayed in GameEx.

So if MAME is saving high scores and GameEx is displaying (some) high scores, then it would seem that the point of failure is probably HIToText not parsing the .hi file correctly. I've never looked into it, does anyone know if HiToText generates a log of any sort?

[GimmeClassics]

...if MAME is saving high scores and GameEx is displaying (some) high scores, then it would seem that the point of failure is probably HIToText not parsing the .hi file correctly. I've never looked into it, does anyone know if HiToText generates a log of any sort?

Does anyone perhaps have any idea? Maybe Headkaze or someone else....?

I would really like to solve this . I'm an addict for setting arcade highscores

It's so much fun setting highscores and competing among friends

Thank u!