( ArcadeOnly ) Mame HiScores

[Acidmank]

Hello, I'm a total Newbie but willing to learn.
I have been playing and have tweaked ( trial & lots of errors ) the CoinOps Arcade Final Build ( Vertical ) to my liking, and with 2nd monitor support for a Marquee.    ( I'm quite chuffed how well its turned out )

But I now have a real challenge that I need help with.
I would like to display mame highscores (on the marquee.)

After some googling i see there is a Hi2TXT program that should help this along massively.?

My Logic breaks this into 3 parts.
1.   On exiting of said game Hi2TXT runs and creates the textfile file for that game and saves to hdd.
2.   Adapt layout.xml to read external text file and display accordingly.
3.  Happy Days !!!! 

( I appreciate not all games have score saving but the Hi2txt appears to support a huge number of games - Far more that ill ever need )

Does anyone have time to help with this or at-least provide guidance on how to achieve such a thing?
Im hoping someone else likes this idea and we can work on together?

Thanks all.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

You might be able to use the reloadableScrollingText tag for that purpose: http://www.retrofe.nl/wiki/doku.php?id=layouts#reloadablescrollingtext_parameters