How do I get these systems to save high scores ?
Thanks
No one have this working then ?
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Looking for clarification, is this not possible or is my setup (Shield TV) wrong ?
Why not use savestates?
A little late, hopefully this can still help you, because I had a hard time figuring out how to do this. And if you already figured it out, maybe this will help someone else.
Hi score saving is working in Mame2003. The fix is actually quite simple.
- Run Mame2003 one time with a working game, and it should create a \mame2003 folder in your system folder.
- Download the following file, http://www.mameworld.info/highscore/hiscoredat(old).zip , and unzip the hiscore.dat file into the \mame2003 folder
Done! Tested with Donkey Kong and a clean RetroArch exit.
edit: I just now noticed this is for Android, and I’m using windows. I don’t know if that makes any difference or not. Well, hopefully it still helps someone who’s searching the forum for information on how to do this. Also, for anyone wondering, your ‘samples’ folder also goes in the system\mame2003 folder to get the extra sound effects in some older games like Donkey Kong.
typhon has got it 
but FYI there’s some documentation i’ve written for mame2003 available here: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003 - this covers hi score saving.
i have done some similar for fba (latest) also: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-fba-next (i forget whether FBA handles hiscore saving by default… I’d need to check)
it’s for the retropie project (linux), but you get the idea.
hmm maybe i should just add the hiscore.dat (and cheat.dat, etc) to the mame2003 repository so it’s automatically configured…
Thanks, documentation is hard to find, especially for newbies. That’s why I took the time to reply to this… if I had a hard time figuring out how to do it, chances are someone else eventually will too (or already has and just gave up).
But yeah if you could go ahead and add it that would probably be the easiest for everyone, even though most people probably aren’t even aware you can do this.
Wait a minute… you can do cheats in MAME2003!!! Man if I could get Killer Instinct working, I wouldn’t even mess with the other MAME cores.
unfortunately killer instinct doesn’t work on mame2003, but only in the libretro version… it works in mame2003 standalone. i need to look into it more, but my findings are logged here: https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/issues/38
No biggie, it’s easy enough to edit a playlist and make it run with Mame2014 (the only other Mame core I like using currently).
Mame2003 is great. There’s a handful of cool games that have been released between 2003 and now, but most of the good ones are in that set. Half a tb for a bunch of fruit machines just doesn’t seem worth it lol.