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General / Re: Mame not save Hiscore in Attract Mode

« on: August 22, 2020, 12:15:31 PM »

SOLVED!

Pretty simple config issue as it turns out.

In the mame emulator config file in Attract Mode I just needed to change my workdir from c:\AttractMode\ to C:\Mame\:

workdir              C:\Mame\

The work directory was wrong, so it couldn't find the right mame.ini and therefore couldn't save hiscores.

Seems to be working now. 

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General / Re: Mame not save Hiscore in Attract Mode

« on: August 22, 2020, 10:19:49 AM »

Curious if anyone ever figured out how to solve this issue?

Was messing around again and saw this behavior:

If I run from cmdprompt starting from c:\mame directory it works when I type:
C:\MAME>mame64 galaga


If i run from cmdprompt starting from c:\ it doesn't work (get same thing as launching from AM - defaults to 20,000 hi score)
C:\>c:\mame\mame64 -rompath c:\mame\roms galaga

if I don't specify rompath when running from c:\ then I just get errors
C:\>c:\mame\mame64 galaga
gg1_1b.3p NOT FOUND (tried in galaga galaga)
gg1_2b.3m NOT FOUND (tried in galaga galaga) <<lists about 12 missing items>>

Any ideas?

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General / Re: Mame not save Hiscore in Attract Mode

« on: March 24, 2020, 03:29:30 PM »

Yes.

The .hi files are saved in c:\MAME\HI

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General / Re: Mame not save Hiscore in Attract Mode

« on: March 21, 2020, 06:34:20 AM »

Wish I could help.  I'm having the exact same problem.

I run MAME directly and hi scores save just fine.  I run them through attract mode and they go back to the default hi score.  I can then go run it again directly (skipping AM) and the old high score shows up just fine.

Hopefully someone will have a pointer for us.