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Ok, Mickey's more recent upload plays back fine to the advertised score. Go figure.

http://marp.retrogames.com/inp/mickey_t ... mame59.zip

Well, come on then. Show us all.

Windows, at least, keeps a creation timestamp. Maybe a modification could be made to MAME that would make use of that when playing back Neo Geo games. And yes, smame, I do know who you are (well, not your real name or anything, but you know what I mean :) ), and I don't doubt your knowledge of MAME ...

I'm sure "TeamMahjong" will rule all eventually.

MAME in no way manages random seeds, the games themselves do that. And how it does it is likely to vary from game to game. As for Ninja Commando, I have had no problems playing back Gemant's recordings. Often problems with Neo Geo games are NVRAM related, and I'm pretty sure the Samurai Shodown seri...

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Anyway, I guess Hisa is going after Innuendo and co. now.

It is certainly possible that the real time clock on the Neo Geo could be used as a random seed, although it is quite clear that many games do not.

Banning all Neo Geo games is certainly rather drastic action.

Nope, having hiscore.dat present with or without a corresponding .hi file makes no difference. MAME doesn't use the .hi file at all.

I've had a little muck around with hiscore.dat now. I tried to see if it made any difference with Thunderforce AC, which it didn't. It didn't make any difference whether there was a .hi file present or not. In fact, it does not use it at all when using -playback. Now, I am looking through the MAME s...

Game Guru has confirmed it now. I wonder how he played it back?

http://marp.retrogames.com/inp/mickey_tfrceac_1556540_win57.zip Won't playback with or without sound under MAME 0.57 (Win32 console). Loses sync around stage 4. Tried with default NVRAM, worked better, but still lost sync on stage 7. I guess that it's likely that NVRAM (default or otherwise) was use...

AL wrote:I can't believe I'm not Barny ? Is Ben Jos THAT bad ??

Yes. At least that's what he has us believing.

Many games will generate their own 'random' numbers by using RAM contents (which would include any high scores) as a seed. That's why .hi files should be deleted before recordign like with .nv files. I'm not exactly sure of how hiscore.dat operates with MAME, as I don't use it myself, but I think it...

By the way,Mac recordings CAN be played back into other platforms,especially if the game doesn't have rands... And certainly only if the CPU cores are the same, which is impossible for 68000 and Z80, as the DOS and Win32 version default to the ASM cores which no non-x86 machine can run. The C and A...