Utility to extract hiscores: hi2txt

[greatstone]

Hello everybody,

 

As suggested by DazzleHP, I am creating now a specific thread for hi2txt utility.

I started back in 2014 from the hashes of HiToText brilliant utility, providing full flexibility to describe how to extract hiscores without hard-coding anything in the program itself.

Everything is here: http://greatstone.fr...txt/hi2txt.html

Feedback is welcome as well as game support request or help 

 

Last release: v1.11 (2020-04-12)

[Overview][Command-Line usage][XML format][All supported games]

 

Cheers!

GreatStone

Edited April 13, 2020 by greatstone
New release 1.11

[greatstone]

So, to "start" 2017, here is the new v1.8!

What's new?

Some contributions from T. Busse (14 games) and Japi (3 games): Thanks a lot!!

38 new games supported, and many many clones:

Andro Dunos, Armored Scrum Object, Alpha Mission 2, T.N.K III, Fighting Golf, Psycho Soldier, Touch Down Fever, Fighting Soccer, Side Trak, Space Thunderbird, Omega, Pop Flamer, Wizard of Wor, War of the Bugs, Vs. Dr. Mario, Nibbler, Solomon's Key, Bosconian, The Empire Strikes Back, Road Fighter, Star Wars, Rally X, Turtles, Astro Blaster, Cosmic Avenger, Depthcharge, Mr. Do's Castle, Vs. The Goonies, Pitfall II, Space Cruiser, Space Bird, Space Fury, Zero Hour, Bang Bang Busters, Iron Clad, Crossed Swords 2, Cyber-Lip, Eightman, Ghost Pilots, Ghostlop

engine improvements: full support the new hiscore.dat from the lua plugins of mame.

Everything is here: http://greatstone.fr...txt/hi2txt.html

Feedback is welcome as well as game support request or help 

Cheers!

GreatStone

[headkaze]

Great work as always greatstone, thanks for keeping this awesome project alive

[greatstone]

Finally a new release to close 2017  v1.9

What's new?

Some contributions from T. Busse (11 games): Thanks a lot!!

47 new games supported:

Star Force, Rescue, Mysterious Stones - Dr. John's Adventure, Hunchback, Splat!, Space Zap, Sinistar, Reactor, Jr. Pac-Man, Bubbles, Blaster, Stargate, Diamond Run, Super Pac-Man, Invader's Revenge, Krull, Arabian, Seicross, Pepper II, Space Panic, Mouse Trap, Mad Planets, Venture, Fantasy, Vanguard, Lost Tomb, Jump Bug, Moon Quasar, Moon Base Zeta, Space Invaders Deluxe, Galaxy Wars, Gorf, Raiden DX, Forgotten Worlds, Galaga 3, The Empire Strikes Back, The Pit, Mirax, Mega Zone, Blasteroids, NATO Defense, Gaplus, Dawin 4078, Vs. Battle City, Halley's Comet, Horizon, ...

all games from mame 0.1 to 0.24 are supported

clones aligned to mame 0.192 hiscore.dat

Everything is here: http://greatstone.fr...txt/hi2txt.html

Feedbacks are welcome as well as game support requests or help 

Cheers and happy Christmas!

GreatStone

[greatstone]

Ok, we are nearly 2 years after the last message  Months are running at an incredible speed!

I found some time to add 38 new games (again with contributions from T. Busse), 170 new clones, rework java and C# sources to be more closer to each other, slightly update the engine (check xml documentation for byte-trunc instruction), and greatly improved an internal function to try to automatically found the encoding algorithm of a specific hiscore file. So, yes, the project is still alive!

Games: R2D Tank, Radar Scope, Guardian, Prehistoric Isle in 1930, Prehistoric Isle 2,  Wild Western, The Three Stooges In Brides Is Brides, Black Widow, Gravitar,  Space Duel, Eggs, Eliminator, Exed Exes, Loco-Motion, Pac & Pal, Start Trek, Tac/Scan, Warlords, Zektor, Snap Jack, Son Son, Demolition Derby, Espial, Kozmik Kroozr, Omega Race, Rampage, Satan's Hollow, Solar Fox, Spy Hunter, Time Pilot '84, Two Tigers, Wacko, Fire Truck, The Ninja Warriors, Gradius III, Lode Runner, Rainbow Island, Viewpoint, Youjyudn.

all games from mame 0.1 to 0.28 are supported

clones aligned to mame 0.212 hiscore.dat

Everything is here: http://greatstone.free.fr/hi2txt/index.html

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks for the update.

I am guessing for GameEx need to do following:

Download c# version.
Ensure .NET framework 4.5 installed.
Rename exe file to HiToText.exe
Place renamed exe in GameEx install folder.

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[greatstone]

hi2txt 1.11 is out today with more games/clones/fixes aligned with mame 0.219.

New games supported: Act-Fancer Cybernetick Hyper Weapon, Cloak & Dagger, B-Wings, Zaviga, Cadash, The Age of Heroes, Air Rescue, Dynablaster, Akai Katana, Haunted Castle, Alien Arena, Alien vs Predator, Altair, Arbalester, Arcadia, Astro Fighter, Astro Fantasia, Transformer, Asuka & Asuka, Atomic Boy, Attack UFO, Avalanche, Avengers In Galactic Storm, Avenging Spirit, Flicky, Ashura Blaster

Download it here: http://greatstone.free.fr/hi2txt/index.html
Follow news: https://twitter.com/hi2txt

[Tom Speirs]

Hey Greatstone,

Just to let you know from GameEx 16.50 we now have direct support for hi2txt and have replaced the legacy hitotxt support.

Hope that is okay with you and thanks so much for your hard work.

Cheers.

Tom.