I'm in need of help from a linux/ nucore guru. Long story short my Star Wars Episode 1 with nucore computer is not saving the high scores. I have been emailing with Don at Big Guys and he has suggested deleting the following files:

FOR RFM rm /root/nucore/roms/savedata/rfm_15.nvram1 and repeat for .nvram2

For SWE1 rm /root/nucore/roms/savedata/swe1_14.nvram1 and repeat for .nvram2

My problem is I'm stupid and I don't know how to get to these files to delete them. Is there someone out there that could walk me through a step by step to making this happen? Either via this thread or over the phone?

Currently with the machine in attract mode I press F1 and get to a screen that says "nucore desktop login:" and this is where I get hung up. Reading the nucore intallation manual is see something about username = root and password = nucore. Am I on the right track here? After this then what? Any help greatly appreciated!

Oh, well that seems pretty easy....even I can handle that. So does "rm" mean remove?

Wow, look at me, I'm a linux guy now! I'm going to put that one one the resume. Thanks guys!

Case sensitive is good to know. It looks like a space between rm and /root, I assume that's important too?

Well I gave it a try and unfortunately it didn't seem to work, the high scores still don't save. Perhaps I screwed it up but I'm pretty sure I was at the correct spot for typing in the commands. I did not get any indication back after entering in the commands that it was successful or an error. After plugging the jumper back in on the Nucore USB board it popped up on the command line "reloading system log daemon". I took a screen shot so those in the know could tell me if it looks like I was in the correct command line spot or not. What do you guys think?

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Terryb,
Here are those results.

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Ok, new results with a lower case l instead of the number 1.

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Well, I must have deleted them because I tried it again and when I got to the RFM files it said something like "could not delete file because file not found". I have a RFM playfield too but have not booted the game with that one in since the deleting just with the episode 1 playfield in. So apparently I was successful in deleting the nvram files but they were not the cause of the problem. Not sure what else to do other than leave a note book next to the game and write down my high scores.

Thanks for the help guys. I emailed with Don some more last night and he seems to think there is something wrong on the board itself. I sent it out this morning to have him repair it. I'll report back once the board is returned and I see what the results are. Hopefully it works. Thanks for all the help getting me this far.

Update:
I sent my Nucore usb board out to Don at Big guys and he could not find anything wrong with it. He sent me back his board since he knew it works 100% in his machine. Unfortunately it did not solve my problem with saving the high scores or the time and date. So I might have to try and reload the nucore software next per his advice. I hate to do this as I'm nervous I will screw it up and the result will be a completely dead game. At this point the game works and I would prefer to live with no high scores than no game at all. So this leads me to some more questions for you computer guys...

First question is about motherboards. I searched around a bit and found two old threads where both people were experiencing similar issues with time/date and high score retention. They both had the same motherboard that I have, an MSI GF615M-P33. In one of the threads the solution that ended up fixing the problem was replacing the motherboard with a new one. So my first question is: can I just swap motherboards? Are they plug and play? I would swap the MSI GF615M-P33 with the exact same thing. I assume I'll just need to adjust the bios upon start up and that's it? There are some on ebay for $40. I figure if it fixes the issue, great, if not it's cheap insurance as a backup motherboard just in case I ever do need it.

My second question is about the hard drive. As I stated before I hate to goof up my hard drive trying to reinstalling software and make the game unplayable. So, if I got another hardrive, I could try reinstalling software on the new drive and see if that fixes the problem. If not I could just plug my old one back in and be back to where I'm at now. Am I correct in this thinking? Also, is there a way to copy my existing hard drive to a new hard drive so that I could try reinstalling just the Nucore software without having to worry about the Linux portion?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Sorry for the slow reply Pin_guy but I've been busy with Christmas stuff. Looks like my problem is solved. Someone provided me with a cloned version of their hard drive and that appears to have fixed my problems. I'll report back if things change. Thanks for all the help people!