Suggestion: PinballX and Pinball FX3 - High Score list?

[rtkiii]

Hey awesome community and PinballX lovers!

This quarantine has re-sparked my enjoyment in tweaking my PBX setup, fixing issues with tables and finally getting PBFX3 up and running.  I have PBFX3 running fine but I notice there is a "Local High Score" with 10 scores that you can access inside of PBFX3 for each table which I did not know existed.  But of course you have to be in the game to reference.  Would be cool if there was a way for PBX to pull that into the information section on the table like it does VP tables. 

 

Just a suggestion.

 

thanks for all the hard work on this awesome frontend!

[joyrider3774]

must know where it's stored first. My guess would be in some profile saved by zen. with steam with me it's got a profile.dat file under steam\userdata\[userid]\442120\remote at least that file seemed to change whenever i start pinball fx3 and 442120 is pfx3's game id in steam. But that profile.dat looks like the score stuff is not part in the file so the file might be encrypted to prevent tampering. opening it up and searching for one of my names i entered locally yields no results. So in order for this to work we would need to know the file's structure and it has got to be reverse enginered which i doubt will happen. Unless the high scores are placed in some other file but would not know which. Did pinball FX2 ever had a program to read out the scores as it seems it uses also a profile.dat file but again with structure not clearly visible so i doubt this will happen 

Edit: it's also possible the data is just compressed and not encrypted but would need to know compression algorithm then

[rtkiii]

That makes sense...I have seen this group some other pretty cool things... and thought I would throw it out there for the community to think about. 

[Draco1962]

Read this: 

https://steamcommunity.com/app/442120/discussions/0/1474222595301508263/

 

[joyrider3774]

7 hours ago, Draco1962 said:

Read this: 

https://steamcommunity.com/app/442120/discussions/0/1474222595301508263/

 

not sure why but initially the game did not have local highscores but a patch added it in not sure if you thought it was missing draco by refering to that topic

 

[Draco1962]

I wasn't aware that there was a patch issued. Perhaps the creator of the patch can tell where/how it is stored locally?

[Draco1962]

Is this what you are referring? 

Local high-score leaderboard added to the pause menu

 

[joyrider3774]

1 hour ago, Draco1962 said:

Is this what you are referring? 

Local high-score leaderboard added to the pause menu

 

yes and you can also see it on the scores screen if you scroll all the way through all the scores up to the final entry for local scores (thats what i did in my screenshot). Creator is zen they won't disclose it i'm sure as it opens up tampering with the profile and i'm pretty certain they would not like that. PS that patch is old so you already have local scores they added it like a year perhaps 2 years ago

Edit: i could be wrong about the patch, it is possible they first announced it without local leaderboards but because of the fuss it made with players they added it in before release pfx3. only thing i could find was this video https://clips.twitch.tv/CheerfulAverageLeopard4Head but i'm not certain if that was pre game release or after game release (with a patch)

[Draco1962]

The threads I've read are a bit all over the place and not much from Zen other than what I last referenced. It 

If the values can be found for the local scores, a plug-in to capture and share the values would make for a great addition!

[joyrider3774]

i think he wanted them displayed inside pinball x like it happens with visual pinball tables using pinemhi or something but i'm not up to the task reverse engineering the profile dat is over my head when it's encrypted / perhaps compress in unknown ways. If it would have been visible from the beginning i might have been able to do it but not now. Could not find any info either on google on how to possibly extract them not even for pinball fx 2

[Mike_da_Spike]

13 hours ago, joyrider3774 said:

not sure why but initially the game did not have local highscores but a patch added it in not sure if you thought it was missing draco by refering to that topic

 

I could not find that screen, although steam says it is up to date ? 

[rtkiii]

You have to go into the table itself in PBFX3 and then hit a CTRL key to scroll through the leader board options.  Eventually Local Leader board pops up.  I have not checked every table but I know I saw it in the star wars ones.