>>Not sure if console stuff is outside the scope of what this script is trying to do or >>if it's even possible.
>As of right now, no, it is strictly arcade game coverage for which the original >hiscore.dat was created (mame [machine name]). Home saving of individual softlist games >would be a lot of work as well and I'd argue that there isn't really someone willing to >put the effort into it. You could probably make general score saves if the data is >always in the same place for a certain machine/console but I doubt this is the case. >That isn't to say, though, whether or not it would be cool to have
I could have used save state support back in 1985 during the long hours I would waste time playing Sierra On-Line's King Quest (the boot diskette) version and then either drown or get done in by ogre or the giant.
>KQI computer prompt reads "You get squished by the giant" Game over....please start all over again for another 3 hours....and don't blow it next time around.
>Me "Nnnnnnnnnnnnno!!!!!!"
Or my favorite memory when playing IBM/DOS version of Wilderness on old CGA monitor back in 1986.
Wilderness> the pink color rattle snake just bit you. Go set up tent. Me> Sets up the tent next to river. Wilderness> it is now pouring torrential rain downpour ( supposed to look like rain, but is purple looking as CGA monitor displayed....maybe Prince's Purple Rain?) Me> Tear down tent Wilderness> No....the flash flood just swept you down the purpleish colored river. Too late.