MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Rage of the Dragon CRASH!

> > In Mame v0.174 neogeo rotd rom crash badly, instead clone rom rotdh works
> perfectly.
> >
> > I haven't a Mametester account, if someone can open a bug report, I would be
> > grateful.
>
> You need to shut cheats off for that game. The clone works perfectly because you have
> no XML cheat for it. The xml cheat file needs to be updated to take in account work
> done on the driver/game during the 0.174 development cycle. Keep an eye out for a new
> cheat file at the Pugsy's Cheat forum:
> http://www.mamecheat.co.uk/forums/
>
> Just be aware that many games in the neogeo driver will not load and actually crash
> if you have the cheat option on. Simply shut it off to play as normal. If you need to
> cheat with neogeo, use 0.173 for now until this is resolved.
>
> EDIT: The problem is sourced in any ROM-BASED cheats. In such instances, you can
> search/replace "maincpu.m" with "cslot1:maincpu.m" in any malfunctioning setname.xml
> cheats to allow them to function again.

Yeah, MAME crashing due to malformed cheats is not okay. MAME crashing due to any sort of bad user or file input is not okay. If the games themselves crash within MAME, that's fine, but anything that actually causes MAME to crash is a 100% valid bug and should be logged in MT.