Bug in MAME import

[xokia]

I think I found a potential bug in the MAME import wizard. I recently update my MAME 0.274 to 0.286. During that process I changed directories structures.

I used to have z:\games\MAME_0.274\mamegame.zip I switched to z:\games\MAME\mamegame.zip I reran the import wizard and chose the upgrade option and pointed to the new directory.

It did get a lot of the games correct. But about 1200 of them it changed to z:\games\MAME\MAME_0.274\mamegame.zip. I was able to manually hack the arcade.xml to fix it. But if you change directories during the upgrade it doesnt seem to get everything correct.

What was weird about this is it caused it to fail in a weird way. Since I updated MAME to point to the directory where the ROMs where at some games would still work. I assuming when it initially failed it just started parsing the directory structure it knew about to try and locate the ROM. Other times it would just crash MAME and nothing would happen.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by xokia