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[DnaDisturber]

I bet you tried the "weeklychallengekey" with the "key" as the same   ........

No, I used the Key and the challengekey on the same. (just checked in the backup)
EDIT : Dumb me ... I checked a table that wasn't supported by leaderboard   
just launched and worked indeed.
I never used my 'pause' button, so that is now used for starting the challenge and to see the leaderboard. Weekly challenge, I need to do from website !
(or scutters can create a plugin for that in PBX  )

Sorry for the confusion mate ! Al that working from home, isn't good for my brain 
 
 

The senior challenge is the same but you just have to look at the last 2 places on the board and see who won....you or me

 
Ha ! Yeah ... and shouldn't be a rule when you win a weekly challenge, that you are banned for the next challenge ?
Scutters is too good for me   
(just kidding, before you take me too serious)

How about the left magnasave for the weeklychallenge, that one hardly gets used

Is this posted on the other 2 websites also?
 
By the way, being ROMless, how does this work for future pinball exactly?

Ehhh about the first question, not entirely sure what you mean
As for the second question, i disabled future pinball online scores....was too much of a hassle with all the names floating around from the tables...and lack of players as well
Pinemhi will display the future pinball hiscores from the hiscore table though...
Future pinball tables create a <tablename>.fpram , just like a nvram with vpinmame...
I read out the hiscores fom there

Edited by DnaDisturber, 17 November 2020 - 01:09 PM.

[wiesshund]

vpinball and vpuniverse?

If you dont have this posted there, you might post up pinEMhi there too
get more people.
maybe gamex too?

[Mike DA Spike]

Good idea Wiesshund
I created a post on GameEx a couple of weeks ago with a really dummy proof installation (even Scutters installed it after that. Or was it my begging to install it ?)
I think a download on vpinball, with the download link to the pinemhi website will do as well.
You only got multiple sites/threads to maintain. I know that it is a lot of extra work when releasing an update. For database manager it cost me in total 1 1/2 hour, to update all the sites where we created download.

Can also post on FB in some pinball groups.
Let me know what you want DNA and we can help you

[DnaDisturber]

Working on optimizing the autorotate function.
Preloading the popups so that you don't experience any lag during gameplay when switching to other popup

When the new version is ready we can have a look at promoting it some more.

Thanks guys for the support

[wiesshund]

Is Johnny Mnemonic no longer supported?

 

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20/11/2020, 18:45

detected game with rom description :  Johnny Mnemonic (1.2R)

matching romname :  jm_12r 

previous jm_12r score extracted 

 

20/11/2020, 19:10 

detected exit from game with rom description :  Johnny Mnemonic (1.2R) 

new jm_12r score extracted 

*** previous score is equal to new score *** 

*** probably because there was no game played *** 

*** it could also be that this rom is not supported (yet) *** 

*** this score will not be submitted *** 

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; ****************************************

; *** PINemHi created by Dna Disturber ***

; ****************************************

 

; ***********************

; *** PINemHi section ***

; ***********************

 

; *** use this section to set the paths to FP fpram's and VP nvram's ***

[paths]

VP=C:\Pinball\VPX\nvram\

FP=C:\Pinball\FP\fpRAM\

 

[options]

; *** Set these to 1 if you want to see them in your output - 1 means its on , 0 means its off ***

replays=1

hiscores=1

buyins=1

 

; ***********************************

; *** PINemHi Leaderboard section ***

; ***********************************

 

; *** use the website http://www.pinemhi.com/hiscores.php to register your name and get a code ***

[user]

name=Wiesshund

code=******

 

[keys]

; *** to change the key to display the popup, don't use a key that is used by the frontend or visual pinball ***

; ***               press this key multiple times to cycle through the different popups                      ***

; ***                                 This key can only be used ingame                                       ***

; ***     weeklychallenge shows what game it is for this week and interim scores and winner previous week    ***

; ***  challengekey to start the challenges,don't use a key that is used by the frontend or visual pinball   ***

; ***                           This key can only be used when not playing a game                            ***

; ***      I would suggest using the backtick (accent grave in europe) for this key(key left from the 1)     ***

; ***          because if the pinemhi_rom_monitor runs this key can't be used for anything other             ***

; ***             This is especially true when you start pinemhi_rom_monitor on windows startup              ***

key=L

challengekey='

weeklychallengekey=]

 

[DnaDisturber]

 

Is Johnny Mnemonic no longer supported?

 

 

Nope....

It's still supported

Just tested it myself

 

score was probably equal to previous score due to nvram not saving correctly.

you should probably look at the last update time from the nvram and see if that is the case

 

If you have a somewhat slower system, (trying not to offend anybody here ) you should check what version of pinemhi you are using

In the latest version there is a builtin delay when you start a table to extract the previous score.

 

If you're already using the latest version and nvram is not updating, you should find out why that is (probably not related to pinemhi)

Often there are problems with not saving nvram properly without people knowing about it.

For instance 1 out of 5 games it happens....you probably don't know about it because you have to get in the hiscore table from the rom/tableand have the bad luck to get the problem (1 out of 5)

how many times will that happen at the same time

Now you get to see problems after every exit as pinemhi leaderboard will register every score, therefore you can detect such a problem sooner

 

 

 

 

 

[wiesshund]

nm i found issue

 

UTF-8

 

it doesnt like other things

not sure how i saved it as something else, but it didnt like it

[BrandonLaw]

Finally got off my lazy-ass and installed this.  Glad I did.  See you nerds at the bottom.

[DnaDisturber]

Finally got off my lazy-ass and installed this.  Glad I did.  See you nerds at the bottom.

Welcome aboard, Sir


Congrats to Mike da Spike for winning week 2

This week it's spiderman

[scutters]

Yeah, well done Mike... I was on top spot most of the week only to get pushed off it on the last day 

 

Is Spiderman coloured mod rom ok for this week?. My score didn't post but log ok;

 

23/11/2020, 12:29 

detected exit from game with rom description :  Spider-Man Vault Edition (V1.01) (Colored MOD) 

new smanve_101c score extracted 

New score submitted to pinemhi leaderboard 

[DnaDisturber]

Yeah, well done Mike... I was on top spot most of the week only to get pushed off it on the last day 
 
Is Spiderman coloured mod rom ok for this week?. My score didn't post but log ok;
 
23/11/2020, 12:29 
detected exit from game with rom description :  Spider-Man Vault Edition (V1.01) (Colored MOD) 
new smanve_101c score extracted 
New score submitted to pinemhi leaderboard

That's because the sambuild vpinmame3.3 beta has renamed the colored to colored mod
I have sent a new pinemhi.ini to mike to test out that has all renames in them.
Includes roms from vpinmame 3.2 sambuild, vpinmame 3.3 beta official and also sambuild

I'll send you the new pinemhi.ini to test as well or otherwise you can edit the name in pinemhi.in to Colored MOD
That will also work for shortterm fix
-edit- can't seem to send it using mobile version, or forward the dm to Mike....
If you happen to speak to Mike maybe he can send it to you....as i'm away from my computer for a few days
If all goes well with this new version of pinemhi.ini i'll add it to the new pinemhi version

Edited by DnaDisturber, 23 November 2020 - 02:37 PM.

[scutters]

 

I'll send you the new pinemhi.ini to test as well or otherwise you can edit the name in pinemhi.in to Colored MOD
That will also work for shortterm fix

 

I have the 'Colored MOD' entry in the ini file already, so that's not it i'm afraid. Any other ideas?

[DnaDisturber]

I'll send you the new pinemhi.ini to test as well or otherwise you can edit the name in pinemhi.in to Colored MOD
That will also work for shortterm fix

 
I have the 'Colored MOD' entry in the ini file already, so that's not it i'm afraid. Any other ideas?

Ehh yes, i put the spiderman newer roms in with the latest release....
Must have missed the colored rom for some reason then.
Can't check but if you look in the whatsnew.txt it probably isn't mentioned

This one goes on the todo list...sorry

Edited by DnaDisturber, 23 November 2020 - 06:35 PM.

[scutters]

No worries. I've switched to the non colour version for the week. Not quite as good as my earlier score, but it should keep Mike busy for a while 

[Mike DA Spike]

No time to play guys.
Not sure, but thought I played with color rom and submitted it

And welcome BrandonLaw . I expected you earlier !

[wiesshund]

Need more people.

 

By the way

The plugin that PinballX is still including in PBX, it does not actually work, does it?

Shame can not do EM's presently
Baseball season will be starting soon, and so far the only really interesting baseball table i have run across is an EM

Grandslam is ok, but the table needs an update, and i dont think the ROM gransla4 is supported

[DnaDisturber]

Need more people.
 
By the way
The plugin that PinballX is still including in PBX, it does not actually work, does it?

Shame can not do EM's presently
Baseball season will be starting soon, and so far the only really interesting baseball table i have run across is an EM

Grandslam is ok, but the table needs an update, and i dont think the ROM gransla4 is supported

I think the pinballx plugin should still work...but hasn't got the newer roms in it
Grandslam is not supported in the online leaderboard
But pinemhi can show the scores from gransls4 rom (ofline hiscores from the table)

Edited by DnaDisturber, 25 November 2020 - 06:07 PM.

[wiesshund]

 

I think the pinballx plugin should still work...but hasn't got the newer roms in it
Grandslam is not supported in the online leaderboard
But pinemhi can show the scores from gransls4 rom (ofline hiscores from the table)

 

Not even sure how the plugin is supposed to work, no documentation for it
but it doesnt seem to harm running the standalone one

how can pinemhi show offline scores?
dont see anything in the config pertaining to showing those?

[DnaDisturber]

I think the pinballx plugin should still work...but hasn't got the newer roms in it
Grandslam is not supported in the online leaderboard
But pinemhi can show the scores from gransls4 rom (ofline hiscores from the table)

Not even sure how the plugin is supposed to work, no documentation for it
but it doesnt seem to harm running the standalone one

how can pinemhi show offline scores?
dont see anything in the config pertaining to showing those?

Pinemhi comes with pinballx...pinballx can display the scores on the info page.
The plugin is only for the online hiscores but is not recommended as the standalone version makes it obsolete.
But it still should work...you must use the plugin manager and then activate it...
rather not use it as it has less features and doesn't work with the newer roms

Pinemhi is offline highscores from the highscore board from the rom
Pinemhi leaderboard is the online leaderboard with all it's features as badges,challenges etc

[wiesshund]

I think the pinballx plugin should still work...but hasn't got the newer roms in it
Grandslam is not supported in the online leaderboard
But pinemhi can show the scores from gransls4 rom (ofline hiscores from the table)

 

Not even sure how their plugin is supposed to work?
no documentation

How or where can you see offline scores?