MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Sudden problem with MAME and Neo Geo...

> It is not happening on any other emulators (except DOSBox). All other emulators (over
> 7 of them) along with MAME (except neogeo roms) work perfectly as they always have. I
> re-copied the neogeo.zip bios from a known working machine as well.
>
> I tried installing the latest version of MAME (0190b, official build) on the machine
> to test it, same thing happens. When trying to run a NeoGeo rom, the command prompt
> error is reads:
>
> ===============================
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Exception at EIP=0335057f (system_time::set(long)+0x001f): ACCESS VIOLATION
> While attempting to read memory at 00000000
> -----------------------------------------------------
> EAX=00000000 EBX=0022c0d0 ECX=0022c0d0 EDX=00000000
> ESI=0022c0d0 EDI=00000000 EBP=0022c088 ESP=0022c070
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Stack crawl:
> 0022c088: 0335057f (system_time::set(long)+0x001f)
> 0022c118: 0335765e (running_machine::run(bool)+0x015e)
> 0022f878: 01c10adc (mame_machine_manager::execute()+0x01dc)
> 0022f9e8: 01c80936 (cli_frontend::start_execution(mame_machine_manager*, std::
> vector const&)+0x0456)
> 0022fad8: 01c80e59 (cli_frontend::execute(std::vector&)+0x
> 0039)
> 0022fb08: 01c0eb8d (emulator_info::start_frontend(emu_options&, osd_interface&
> , std::vector >&)+0x002d)
> 0022fee8: 0676664a (main+0x012a)
> 0022ffc0: 004013e3 (__tmainCRTStartup+0x0273)
> 0022fff0: 7c817067 (RegisterWaitForInputIdle+0x0049)
>
> =====================================
>
> This is from a fresh install and no alterations to newly generated mame.ini .

you see that's actually more interesting, because you have the crash backtrace / map due to having the correct files in the installation.

I suspect other systems with a calender will also crash. Things like PGM?

As for why, I'm not sure. Is the date on the PC in question set to something completely invalid? I've literally never seen this crash before, so something very screwy has happened on your PC, it could indeed be that you've badly broken your Windows installation.