Preserving Arcade Core High Scores

jimmystones · Unread post by **jimmystones** » Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:54 am

Would half brightness be enough to stop the burn-in being an issue? Should be easy enough to rig up a timer that shifts right the rgb values after 30 seconds or something similar, catering for both scenarios.

jimmystones · Unread post by **jimmystones** » Thu Feb 25, 2021 3:59 pm

Added high score and pause support to Phoenix and Pleiads (Tehkan) - pause now dims to half brightness after 10 seconds. Let me know your views

retrodroid · Unread post by **retrodroid** » Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:07 pm

jimmystones wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 3:59 pm Added high score and pause support to Phoenix and Pleiads (Tehkan) - pause now dims to half brightness after 10 seconds. Let me know your views

This is perfect, thanks!

...delay could be longer too if some folks want that (30s)?

jimmystones · Unread post by **jimmystones** » Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:11 pm

Cool - I'll give people a day or so to chip in before I start applying this to any further cores

Alkadian · Unread post by **Alkadian** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:33 pm

Alkadian wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:01 pm I have now tested UniWar S and my high score has been saved!

Moon Patrol, as reported by another member, doesn't seem to save either. I am not very good at Lode Runner but I will try to improve my skills and try to beat at least the lowest score and report back

@alanswx,

Right, my skills at Lode Runner II improved a lot. In fact, I have managed to score more than 69000 points

Sadly, I was not able to save my high scores.

Thanks!

jimmystones · Unread post by **jimmystones** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:32 pm

Afternoon,

I've found the bug in the IremM62 highscores, should be fixed as of today's release.. For reference that covers:
- Battle Road
- Horizon
- Kid Niki - Radical Ninja
- Kung-Fu Master
- Lode Runner II
- Lode Runner III
- Lode Runner IV
- Lode Runner
- Spelunker II
- Spelunker
- Youjyuden

Turns out I'm terrible at Lode Runner.. and Spelunker.. and most of the others, so only managed to get a real high score on Horizon!

Alkadian · Unread post by **Alkadian** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 6:11 pm

jimmystones wrote: ↑Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:32 pm Afternoon,

I've found the bug in the IremM62 highscores, should be fixed as of today's release.. For reference that covers:
- Battle Road
- Horizon
- Kid Niki - Radical Ninja
- Kung-Fu Master
- Lode Runner II
- Lode Runner III
- Lode Runner IV
- Lode Runner
- Spelunker II
- Spelunker
- Youjyuden

Turns out I'm terrible at Lode Runner.. and Spelunker.. and most of the others, so only managed to get a real high score on Horizon!

That's simply awesome newa jimmystones !!! I just cannot wait to test them all!! As mentioned earlier my skills at Lode Runner II and actually Youjyuden improved a lot..lol..so I will be more than happy to test all of them all night long

Thanks a lot!

Alkadian · Unread post by **Alkadian** » Thu Mar 04, 2021 2:39 pm

@alanswx, @jimmystones,

Many thanks for the new update for the Irem62 core. Very much appreciated.

I have just tried Lode Runner II and Youjyuden but I was not able to save my High Scores. I have also noticed that the option is not visible anymore in the OSD menu.

Thanks a lot for looking at it!

jimmystones · Unread post by **jimmystones** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 8:58 am

I took the menu option back out because it was flawed in a way that I can't quite explain! Do you get a nvm file created in /media/fat/config/nvram/ when you press Save Settings in one of those games? (Wondering if it is save or load that is the problem)

Alkadian · Unread post by **Alkadian** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:12 am

jimmystones wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 8:58 am I took the menu option back out because it was flawed in a way that I can't quite explain! Do you get a nvm file created in /media/fat/config/nvram/ when you press Save Settings in one of those games? (Wondering if it is save or load that is the problem)

I see, thanks confirming re the menu option.

Yep, the .nvm files are saved correctly in that location. I can see them all. Please let me know if I can check something else.

Thanks!

jimmystones · Unread post by **jimmystones** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:24 am

Can you attach your Lode Runner nvm so i can test it out? (Also let me know what score / initials you would expect to see)

Alkadian · Unread post by **Alkadian** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:48 am

jimmystones wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:24 am Can you attach your Lode Runner nvm so i can test it out? (Also let me know what score / initials you would expect to see)

Please see attached. Thanks for looking at it!

I am afraid I don't remember the high scores as I was just trying to get the minimum score just enough to populate the high scores panel. Let me try to get a new high score and will provide you with them including my initials!

catenaccio · Unread post by **catenaccio** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:43 pm

Hi, here is my .nvm from Kung Fu Master. I think is empty

Alkadian · Unread post by **Alkadian** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:45 pm

@ jimmystones,

I have just made 13200 points at Youjyuden, not so great score but still I am first

My initials are ALB. Please see attached.

Thanks!

EDIT
I have opened the .nmv file with a text editor and I can see my initials in there followed by others.

jimmystones · Unread post by **jimmystones** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:18 pm

Can you confirm what the modified date on your Lode runner / Youjyuden / Kung-fu Master MRAs are? It looks like the updater might not have pulled the latest version for me, wonder if it's the same for you

jimmystones · Unread post by **jimmystones** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:33 pm

Just noticed this thread:

https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f= ... 646#p19948

Sounds like there is an issue with the updater at the moment - I expect if you manually updated your mra it might start working..

Alkadian · Unread post by **Alkadian** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:37 pm

jimmystones wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:33 pm Just noticed this thread:

https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f= ... 646#p19948

Sounds like there is an issue with the updater at the moment - I expect if you manually updated your mra it might start working..

Cool, I have just read this thread as well. I will manually update the MRA's and come back to you. Thanks!

Alkadian · Unread post by **Alkadian** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:45 pm

Alkadian wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:37 pm
jimmystones wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:33 pm Just noticed this thread:

https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f= ... 646#p19948

Sounds like there is an issue with the updater at the moment - I expect if you manually updated your mra it might start working..
Cool, I have just read this thread as well. I will manually update the MRA's and come back to you. Thanks!

Great news, that was the issue indeed. My high scores are up there now! Thanks a lot

It's now time to improve all my high scores, I suspect it will be a very busy weekend

jimmystones · Unread post by **jimmystones** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:32 pm

Good to hear, glad it wasn't my fault in the end

If there are any issues still with any of the games you might need to delete the nvm and start afresh because if it was made with the updated RBF but the old MRA it could be corrupted.

Alkadian · Unread post by **Alkadian** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:00 pm

jimmystones wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:32 pm Good to hear, glad it wasn't my fault in the end

If there are any issues still with any of the games you might need to delete the nvm and start afresh because if it was made with the updated RBF but the old MRA it could be corrupted.

Absolutely, your fixes were spot on! Thanks again for that.

BTW Locutus73 has already fixed the script!

https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=19964#p19964

pgimeno · Unread post by **pgimeno** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 4:15 pm

Can Pong be next?

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netbeui · Unread post by **netbeui** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 4:32 pm

jimmystones · Unread post by **jimmystones** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:12 pm

Where's the high score stored in RAM, I can't find it... Hey, wait a minute, where's the RAM?

I'm going for the Space Invaders core next - a little bit more modern

Alkadian · Unread post by **Alkadian** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:33 pm

jimmystones wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:12 pm Where's the high score stored in RAM, I can't find it... Hey, wait a minute, where's the RAM?

I'm going for the Space Invaders core next - a little bit more modern

That's cool!! I love that game as well.

Alkadian · Unread post by **Alkadian** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 8:00 pm

@jimmystones,

Just to let you know that 'I am sorry' is saving correctly the high scores as well..just got a stunning 88200 points..lol..

I don't know, maybe because of the fact the my high score can now be saved, but it seems that my skills at Lode Runner and Youjyuden improved significantly as well

I can't wait for the day we can sort of share our high scores..that would be simply awesome!

Anyway I ams till terrible at Spelunker!!!

Thanks a lot again!

bigfoot53 · Unread post by **bigfoot53** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:58 am

Hello Everyone,
This is great progress thanks for all the hard work

I'm trying the updated berzerk core and trying to get the save feature to work so far it only saves if i F12 and select save settings. Is that correct operation ? Is there a way to make it auto save ?
Thanks

alanswx · Unread post by **alanswx** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:13 am

No auto save yet.

jimmystones · Unread post by **jimmystones** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 10:26 pm

Had a go at the Space Invaders core - not a great deal of support for hiscores across its games, but I got these working:
- Attack Force
- Blue Shark
- Cosmo
- Galaxy Wars
- Lunar Rescue
- Space Chaser
- Space Invaders Part II
- Space Invaders
The following may work but haven't been able to test them yet:
- 280Z-ZZAP
- Clowns
- Laguna Racer
- Space Encounters

Zeosstud · Unread post by **Zeosstud** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:36 pm

Pengo would be fantastic.. I am getting better and would love to save my high scores.. Very under rated game!!

LamerDeluxe · Unread post by **LamerDeluxe** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:02 am

Pengo, so cute looking and so tricky to play, really cool game. I made my own Pengo game on my VIC-20 as a kid.

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