MiSTer FPGA Forum

Got a MiSTer a couple of weeks ago. Amazing gadget, and especially the development speed & quality is top notch. So much new stuff all the time.

Anyhoo: A five minute hack job, but it works for me, so I'm sharing the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJFcXJTDxE

Since most games don't save high scores I've been keeping score via a spreadsheet and printing it out.

However, having it directly on the MiSTer is a lot easier, though I still need to input the scores manually into the text file that the script is concatenating.

I'm sure high scores will eventually be auto-saved in most games, but it would be sweet to have the top score from selected games all in one place, which what I'm doing (manually) here.

I've done it via ssh, but simply press F9 to use the built in shell.

Default login/pass should be "root" and "1".

First I've made a dir in /media/fat called /hiscores:
Inside this dir I've made a txt file called hiscores.txt which contains the data:
Put in your own high-score data manually as text (use tabs or spaces for columns).
When you're done press Ctrl+O to write out, then Ctrl+X to exit.

Next I've made a file called hiscores.sh and placed in media/fat/Scripts:
In the nano editor these two lines need to be inserted:
Then write out and exit.
Last step is to make the script executable:
After this the script will show up in the Scripts menu and print out the hi-score table when selected.

Whenever you want to edit the hi-scores you need to go to the shell (F9) and nano edit the txt file. Takes less than 20 seconds.

If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. I think this should be safe from being overwritten during updates.