01540: acombat, acombato: Score resets

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
01540	Save/Restore	Trivial	Sometimes	Mar 18, 2008, 01:42	Aug 18, 2023, 15:50

Tester	Germano	View Status	Public	Platform	MAMEUI
Assigned To		Resolution	Open	OS	Windows XP/Vista 32-bit
Status [?]	Confirmed			Driver	dataeast/astrof.cpp
Version	0.123u5	Fixed in Version		Build	Normal
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	01540: acombat, acombato: Score resets
Description	High score resets to 00000 during demo play. Tafoid: This seems to happen only when using -autosave.
Steps To Reproduce	Play the game normally. When the game is over wait for demo play. All scores resets to 00000 after few seconds. Save State below (for 0.123u5): Place extracted auto.sta file into \sta\acombat\ subfolder Run Astro Combat. Let the asteroid destroy you, the game goes over. Now the hi-score and score-1 tags shows 2230 points. The demo play starts showing the Score Table, then the Game Title. After that you'll see the spaceship against the cyan enemies, the 1st pattern. When the spaceship die, all the scores resets to 00000, and more, the demo play restarts from Score Table instead to continue with purple enemies (2nd pattern).
Additional Information	The issue seems to happens only if you reached level 2 or higher.
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Affected Sets / Systems	acombat, acombato

Attached Files	AUTO.zip (10,099 bytes) Mar 19, 2008, 00:54

No.00228 Tafoid Administrator Mar 18, 2008, 14:46	I'm unable to duplicate on baseline command-line version or MAMEUI32 (which is the version you supported) of 0.123u5 Playing acombat, got 02810 and 02900 points (what I'd assume is level two.. destroyed the boss) and then let the demo run. I let it run for nearly two minutes and I didn't see the high score reset to 00000 at any time. I started another game after and the high score was still in place when gameplay started. Can anyone else duplicate this issue?
No.00229 Germano Tester Mar 18, 2008, 16:45	To duplicate the issue the "save state on exit" must be activated.
No.00231 Fujix Administrator Mar 18, 2008, 17:17	I left the demo for 20 rounds but doesn't repro for me with -autosave on normal mame.
No.00235 Tafoid Administrator Mar 18, 2008, 19:11	I'm changing the issue to a save/restore issue because it seems to only happen when using save states. If you can, Germano, save the state of the machine before the bug happens and attach it to your report here (ZIP PLEASE) so we can verify it on other machines. The Save States for that driver might need modification. Make sure -cheats are not active and any non-standard settings are mentioned to ensure proper playback.
No.00242 Germano Tester Mar 19, 2008, 01:09 edited on: Mar 19, 2008, 01:18	Attached the autosave file, auto.zip Place extracted auto.sta file into \sta\acombat\ subfolder Run Astro Combat. Let the asteroid destroy you, the game goes over. Now the hi-score and score-1 tags shows 2230 points. The demo play starts showing the Score Table, then the Game Title. After that you'll see the spaceship against the cyan enemies, the 1st pattern. When the spaceship die, all the scores resets to 00000, and more, the demo play restarts from Score Table instead to continue with purple enemies (2nd pattern).
No.00244 Tafoid Administrator Mar 19, 2008, 01:54	With this save state, the problem happens on my build and can confirm it. Thanks for providing it.
No.00245 Germano Tester Mar 19, 2008, 02:02	acombato (astro combat older set) also affected
No.02467 Germano Tester Sep 15, 2008, 07:35	Updates for 0.127 version: - ACOMBAT: the issue is magically solved :-) - ACOMBATO: the issue is still active :-(
No.04526 Germano Tester Jun 19, 2009, 09:48	Version 0.132 (mameUI) UPDATES: acombat, acombato both affected. The issue happens also without -autosave The summary and the description should be changed to: GAME RESETS (exactly the same behavior of F3 key, that's the reason of 0 scores) The issue happens only if you reached level 2 or higher in play.
No.14990 M.A.S.H. Senior Tester Apr 26, 2018, 18:46	I reached level 2 with mame acombat -autosave -cheat and the HI-SCORE didn't reset to 00000. Can somebody confirm this without -cheat that this bug is fixed?
No.14994 Robbbert Senior Tester Apr 27, 2018, 01:26 edited on: Apr 27, 2018, 11:46	I tried it just now (acombat) without any autosave, and didn't reach level 2, only getting 1810 points. After a while in attract mode, the scores reset to 0. So the problem still exists. There's nothing in the error.log, apart from a series of explosions. EDIT: during further extensive testing, it never happened again. Whatever it is, it's quite elusive.
No.21706 Germano Tester Aug 18, 2023, 15:50	Tested on ver. 250. Problem still exists. But the behavior has changed. Now the reset happens in "attract mode" randomly, but less frequently. acombat4 also affected.