[Scummvm-devel] hopkins, hiscore.dat

[Willem Jan Palenstijn]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:15:04AM -0400, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> Apologies, it completely slipped my mind, what with all the excitement of
> making progress in R2R. I'll devote some time this weekend to look at it,
> promise.

Thanks!

-Willem Jan






> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Willem Jan Palenstijn <wjp at usecode.org>wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:56:07AM -0400, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> > > For reference, the file is used to store the high scores for the Breakout
> > > minigame on Hopkins computer, so it isn't exactly a critical file. I
> > don't
> > > have the code installation handy, and the Github web interface is a bit
> > too
> > > clunky for me to check, but ideally, if it isn't already, the highscore
> > > file should only be created when someone actually plays the game. If
> > that's
> > > the case, then the number of people who'll already have the file is
> > minimal.
> > >
> > > Of course, when you get right down to it, I don't really see that much
> > need
> > > to share the mini-game scores across multiple saves.It could likely just
> > as
> > > easily be refactored to be saved as part of the standard savegame (I
> > > presume), and be done with the separate file altogether. That would be my
> > > preference. Unless there's anybody fervently in favour of maintaining the
> > > scores as a separate file, I'll have a look at weekend.
> >
> > Any news on this?
> >
> > -Willem Jan
> >