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[makmak]

Superb, works, thx a lot! Still strange as it worked before, any explanation what happened inbetween, sth new vpinmame changed the nvram or so?

[Thalamus]

Nah. Not so sure I would say that it is strange. nvram is just that. Pinmame emulates writing the settings down to this file, but, who is to say that there is no bugs ? What about if you exit the game abruptly ? I have never looked at pinmame code for that, but I know. It happens from time to time that the nvram isn't saved properly. I remember LONG time ago, when dmdext was a bastard, it crashed pinmame when it tried to exit normally. Ending up with no Grand Champions being registered. There is a whole lot of things that CAN go wrong and ... in this hobby, with so many different actors, there will be oddities going around.

 

nvram's doesn't take much space - just make a backup from time to time. What I do, is like .... if the game I play is the same. Then the nvram is kept. When Flupper released TWD, old records was deleted but I kept all values like 1 coin for a credit etc.

Then I made a clean backup - just to have it ready in case that want to start fresh. UnclePaulie has often provided nvrams with his tables. I think that is a good idea, the author often knows the machine very well and can come with already optimized settings "well as he sees it at least". I've also provided a few in threads. Recommended settings for tournament play and often also matching the replay scores that the machine-release had on the apron.

[makmak]

Wow, thank you for enlightening! Im a bit naive when it comes to codes, programming and such...If you ever want to know sth about watersports...;-)