(Topic ID: 219629)

Ghostbusters high scores disappeared but Grand Champion score remained

By ArcadeBar

5 years ago



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  • Latest reply 12 months ago by RafCon
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#1 5 years ago

Has anyone had an issue on Ghostbusters Pro software ver 1.13 where out of nowhere all the high scores disappeared except the grand champion score was the only one that remained? It seems very odd that the GC score/name would stay but all the other high scores are gone... and do these newer machines still have a separate battery behind the backglass that holds this memory that might be going bad already??
Thanks!

#2 5 years ago

That's a high score reset feature. Looking at the ghostbusters manual, that's adjustment 37 in the menu: "HSTD RESET COUNT". After that many plays, the high scores will reset, except for the GC score.

#3 5 years ago

Ok Thanks! That’s great to know cause it’s in our bar and I reset the high scores when we first got it a few months ago but I never wanted them to reset on their own! We want it to be an ongoing quest to rule the scoreboard at the store. So I’m guessing there’s a setting to disable this feature or do you just have to input a rediculously high number of plays before it will reset?

#4 5 years ago

Or what is a common/fair setting for this in a bar? I’m torn between letting the high scores continuously reside until they’re beaten, vs after X amount of time it resets and new people get a chance to see their names on the board until the high scorers come back in? We’ve only had the machine a few months so that’s the disappointing thing, but if it actually takes a year or two before the high scores reset then that’s not as bad...

#5 5 years ago

The setting lets you have automatic reset every X thousand games, or never. We've gone back and forth on the issue ourselves, and initially disabled automatic resetting, but have now decided to set the reset to 3000 (which is the default, I believe). It makes it less stale, gives more people a chance to get that good feeling, and it actually makes the GC spot even more sweet to capture

4 years later
#6 12 months ago

Resurrecting this thread because this just happened to my Star Wars Premium, HUO machine. I didn’t realize that the high scores, except for the grand champion score, would reset after so many plays. Anyone that has visited my home and put their name up on the board, I’ve lost all of those after my most recent game. Wish I would’ve known as I would’ve disabled that when I first got the machine. Just FYI for others in case you want to keep people’s scores beyond a certain number of plays. The setting can now be found as #40 on my machine.

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