Thanks for help, But still no luck....I deleted al old hiscore files then copy the highscore.dat to bios/fba then starts a game, end game and see a new hiscore file is generated in bios/fba, open it in wordpad and it looks good with the name i write for higscore. starts same game again but now al higscores are wrong,,,,can look like this 123&5?i83672917 so something happens when it loads up again.....shouldent the hichscore file thats made from the game end up in the save folder?......tryed both old and new higscore.dat but resolt is the same...please help....thanks