UPDATE: Solved! -- Hiscore saving in mame203 not working (Arpicade 3.83)

[Tapper]

UPDATE: Solution was to manually add dkongpe and dkongx to the hiscore.dat file in the mame203 plugins/hiscore folder. Now the saves work.

Specifically around line 4706 in hiscore.dat file I added:
;dkongf:******Donkey Kong Foundry (hack)
;added Donkey Kong Pauline Edition (dkongpe) and Donkey Kong II (dkongx)
dkong:
dkongf:
dkongpe:
dkongx

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I'm noticing that hiscore saving is not working in MAME 0.203 contained in 181128-ARpiCADE-3.83beta.img. I've had to move a few games (dkongpe, dkongx, dkongf) to 203 to get better sound, so ideally I'm hoping hiscores can also work.

I noticed there is a plugins.ini file in the 0.203 folder, and I placed a "1" after hiscore to enable that plugin. But, after some testing that doesn't seem to work.

If anyone can get hiscores saving in 203 please let me know what you did.

UPDATE: ok, after looking through the hiscore.dat file, it seems support for the games I am playing (dkongpe, dkongx, dkongf) have simply not yet been added! So, I will try to do that manually and see if it works.

I know I must seem crazy to care about these Donkey Kong hacks but they are popular in my house.

[dee2eR]

nice find. Could you please upload your updated hiscore.dat here or email it to me or something and I will add it to the next release.

[Tapper]

Sure! See attachment. The only changes I made was adding dkongpe and dkongx. I can confirm the score saving works (at least when using 0.203)

[dee2eR]

Thanks @Tapper