I realy cant say much else till i know who porting what versions of those apps. ĭont get me wrong Mame is awsome for what it is but if your looking just to play the arcade games your more than likely going to need to look into ports of final burn mess zinc ect (think ive seen all of those being ported too)

Problem is Mame's focus over the last few years isnt about playing games its about acurately emulateing the hardware, weather its a benifit to playing or not so most of the very latest mame versions can reduce modern pcs to smokeing bits on alot of games that worked flawlessly in previous versions do to the extra hardware being emulated. they arnt saveing the game thier saveing the state of the hardware like the machine never turns off, so you get the benifits of saved high scores as well as unlockables on certain games. and the whole proccess is trasparent to the user. short wise thier version gives you exactly what you want saved high scores for your games. Smile well you need to understand a bit about what mames actualy doing and how there useing 'save states'. It depends on the version of MAME that is ported, and how that version handles high score saving. Saying 'of course they will' is incorrect. The problem with this technique is that not all ROMs support save states. It's like the game was paused and never lost power. When you load the game the next time, it reloads the save state and picks up where you left off. When you quit the game, its state is saved.

So the way this works in MAME now is when you first play a game, it is like you are turning it on for the first time. I assume most people who dabble with emulators know what save states are, but if you don't, basically it's where an emulator 'freezes' a game in time and then allows you to later resume the game right at that point. The goal of MAME is to preserve ROMs and to get hi score.dat to work they were modifying the ROMs, so this technique was removed from MAME.Īs of the last year or so, MAME has been using save states to save high scores. This worked really well but the MAME developers decided that this went against the spirit of MAME. All game ROMs were modified to write their high scores to the hi score.dat file. Middle versions of MAME were hacked to use a 'hi score' dat file. Actually, depending on which version of MAME gets ported, they may or may not be saved.Įarly versions of MAME did not save high scores.

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