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stellarola:
I've had this problem for a while now. I really don't understand what is causing this interupt in MAME.

The issue - While running MAMEWAH and any commandline version of mame my games automatically exit and return back to MAMEWAH. I was playing SF2 and in the middle of a round it closes down and goes right back to the MAMEWAH frontend. Anyone know whats causing this?

Here is the setup I'm running:

-J-PAC with all shift keys set to off (PS/2 mode)
-MAME0100 Commandline version (does this in all versions of mame)
-I would list my PC setup, but it has happened on 2 different computers
-MAMEWAH 1.61
-MAMEWAH Config
-Wireless keyboard and mouse (USB)

Thanks in advance for the help everyone!

-Ben :)
screaming:
Are you sure you're not hitting the game escape button on accident?  open up a game, press all the buttons individually and see if any exit the game.  Maybe you have a short?

Post your mamewah.log file..
unclet:
Start the game via the command line (ie: not using MameWah) and see if the game abuptly ends in the middle or not.....
stellarola:
Ok I just ran commandline version by itself. It looks like its not MAMEWAH at all. I get this error:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Ben>cd desktop

C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop>cd mame0101b

C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop\mame0101b>mame.exe "C:\Documents and Setti
ngs\Ben\Desktop\mame0101b\roms\SSF2XJ.zip

-----------------------------------------------------
Exception at EIP=008EB49E: ACCESS VIOLATION
While attempting to read memory at 069E0021
-----------------------------------------------------
EAX=0000007F EBX=067B1698 ECX=069E0020 EDX=00000001
ESI=102C4FF0 EDI=10354FF0 EBP=0022EF38 ESP=0022EEF8

C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop\mame0101b>

Here is an image of the commandline window:

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/998/errorzy7.jpg


Anyone know what this means?
screaming:
looks like a video card problem.  Try using the -video switch to change the rendering engine in MAME:

mame.exe -video ddraw "C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop\mame0101b\roms\SSF2XJ.zip"
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