About high scores.......

[mariozeferino]

Dear Administrator,Just a thought, What if... when exiting a game, gameex created an automatic "savestate" and when relauching the same game gameex created an automatic "loadstate" I think I'd love That.

[bkenobi]

That is something that you would need to configure in the emulator. MAME can handle save states for many games. Other systems (N64 for instance) can save the saved games, but not necessarily the save states, by default. If you want to save the state for those emulators, you will probably want to define a key to save and another to restore.

[headkaze]

I believe MAME can do this, just edit mame.ini

autosave                  1

[mariozeferino]

thanks, ill try. that way ill keep my high scores.(i think)

[mariozeferino]

not working, nothing hapens

[bkenobi]

If you set MAME to do an auto state save then, when you start a game after exiting, you will see the exact same screen as when you quit. So if you are playing Pacman and quit in the middle of a game, when you start the next time you will be able to play at the same point in that game. As a result of saving the state in this way, you should have all of your high scores saved for any game that supports save states.

There is another way to save your high scores that requires compiling your own version of MAME. If you apply the high score patch as mentioned in the MAME compiler thread it will save the high scores to a text file that will then be loaded again the next time you start the game.

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=4375

[mariozeferino]

i tried with, r type, slap fight, vigilante, but i will try with other ones, maybe it's a problem with non working games

[mariozeferino]

tried with pacman and it work, i think the autosave doesn t work with non working games

[mariozeferino]

is there any other emulator for mame roms that ignores the non working or working with problems messages?

[Tempest]

You will want to compile your own version of Mame using Mame Compiler

[mariozeferino]

what i mean is, lets say "slap fight" one of my favorite games. the main rom doesn't work , only bootleg version work and they need the main rom to work and there is alwais the "working with problems" message. do you think it will solve that kind of problems? thanks for helping (sory for the bad english)

[bkenobi]

If you compile your own version of MAME, you can disable the messages like you are asking about.

[mariozeferino]

thanks guys, i have already try to compile, but didn't understand s*** of what i was doing or what is it for,but i'll try it again,thanks again

[bkenobi]

Did you try using HK's MAME Compiler 64? If you use that, it's REALLY easy! I've compiled without it, but that can be tricky if you aren't familiar with how they do things. If you have any problems with using HK's program, post in that thread and someone will be able to get you going.

[headkaze]

Not all games support NVRAM savestate so autosave will not work for all of them.

Has anyone tried MC64 lately? Seem to be quite a number of people reporting it not working at the moment.

[mariozeferino]

thanks master (bkenobi)

now to headkaze..... i have tried this weekend to compile mame 137 but nothing happens, but like i said before i am not sure what was i doing.

i'll try again soon

[Tempest]

Not all games support NVRAM savestate so autosave will not work for all of them.

Has anyone tried MC64 lately? Seem to be quite a number of people reporting it not working at the moment.

I did, with no success. I posted in the Mame Compiler Thread. I will help test if needed.