CROSSED SWORDS 2 MVS high scores?

[Ukyo]

Hey guys, hoping you can help me troubleshoot.

I recently had a coin battery installed on my mv-2f. (original board battery was losing its charge and starting to leak, it had a good run though.)

calendar/clock now working great; high scores are saving perfectly for all games except CS2. I have unibios 3.0 installed, with blazing star in slot 1, and Crossed Swords 2 in slot 2.

Here is where things get weird: Blazing Star high scores save normally and reappear after powering down; but with CS2, they will save for only a couple of hours, and then wipe. For example, I played CS2 a bit last night and put up some high scores. Then powered down for about 2 hours, ate dinner, then turned the cab back on. cool, CS2 scores are still there...continued playing...put up some more scores, then powered down for the night. I checked the scores on the cab this morning, and they are gone now, wtf.

fyi, I have reset backup RAM multiple times, and also reformatted my memory card last night for the hell of it.

Thanks guys, can anyone else running CS2 in a 2-slot confirm high scores are saving normally?

 

[Razoola]

Many NeoGeo games reset the high score tables on a daily basis. I will need to check crossed swords 2 but it is very possible this is what is happening. Other games reset scores on a monthly basis. Are your softdip settings still remembered?

 

[Ukyo]

Many NeoGeo games reset the high score tables on a daily basis. I will need to check crossed swords 2 but it is very possible this is what is happening. Other games reset scores on a monthly basis. Are your softdip settings still remembered?

oh interesting, I was not considering a daily reset... my CS2 softdips are set to default, so I'll change them up and report back... thanks man.

 

[gamerwhat]

I know Art of fighting series "today's ranking" that resets on power down. Are there other examples?

 

[Razoola]

magician load resets daily windjammers resets monthly.

 

[Ukyo]

magician load resets daily windjammers resets monthly.

I put up a new high score tonight and then ticked the calendar forward 1 day...and the score wiped. So that was it. Thanks Raz.

So, if I updated my unibios, would the memory card high score save function allow me to circumvent the cart's 24hr wipe behavior?

 

[Razoola]

Yes, I believe so.

 

[Hellfromabove]

Many NeoGeo games reset the high score tables on a daily basis. I will need to check crossed swords 2 but it is very possible this is what is happening. Other games reset scores on a monthly basis. Are your softdip settings still remembered?

Very interesting, had no idea this was incorporated.

 

[gamerwhat]

When using unibios save on memory card function can you copy/delete each game hiscore?

 

[Razoola]

When using unibios save on memory card function can you copy/delete each game hiscore?

Yes you can.


I have looked into the daily highscore wipe situation a little more now and it appears all the ADK games do it and some other games have 2 tables, one that wipes and one that does not. This does bring a issue with the ADK games on MVS hardware only under a set situation. The scores on the memory card will be wiped if you start and end a game without letting attract mode cycle once after the scores are deleted on a date change. On the 2nd cycle the scores will be pulled from the card ok.

This means that until I fix this one should make sure memory card saved highscores for ADK games are showing in the highscore table before starting a game.

 

[Ukyo]

Yes you can.


I have looked into the daily highscore wipe situation a little more now and it appears all the ADK games do it and some other games have 2 tables, one that wipes and one that does not. This does bring a issue with the ADK games on MVS hardware only under a set situation. The scores on the memory card will be wiped if you start and end a game without letting attract mode cycle once after the scores are deleted on a date change. On the 2nd cycle the scores will be pulled from the card ok.

This means that until I fix this one should make sure memory card saved highscores for ADK games are showing in the highscore table before starting a game.

nice, thanks for looking into that. btw, have you ever done any testing with Knight's Chance? I seem to remember that cart wiping scores pretty frequently too...

p.s. regarding Knight's Chance, I had a wishlist item for a future unibios release if it would be at all possible...

for whatever reason when that cart is in a multi-slot, once the board cycles to Knights Chance it will never cycle off to another cart. It will just endlessly loop the KC attract mode...

 

[Razoola]

noted but I dont think that cycle issue is easily fixable at the bios level.

 

[gamerwhat]

How about games that don't use memory card: can you still save their hiscore on the memory card? Silly question: for games that periodically wipe scores, do they also wipe softdips? Also i remember in PS2 SNK AC vol.1 that ADK games save hiscore permanently, AOF wipes today's ranking and Samurai Shodown wipes round clear time.

 

[Razoola]

Yes, no, no idea about ps2 ports. Not sure about sansho, Are you talking about all versions or one version in particuler?

 

[gamerwhat]

About Samsho i was talking about ps2 port, i don't know about MVS.

 

[gamerwhat]

Still a question: for games that periodically wipe scores, does the countdown start when you get a hiscore?

 

[Razoola]

The date on the calander. If you set a score a 5minutes to midnight it will be deleted the next time the game cycles attract mode after midnight.