Mala 162 bug creating the game list

[TheManuel]

The cause of this bug might be related to NelsonPJ's a few posts down but I'm making a separate post just in case.

I'm still working with MAME 0.129 as I had taken a break from the hobby for the last year or so.
Mala 162 can scan my MAME roms folder and will create the gamelist without problems.
However, I actually have my roms set up per SGT's method to integrate Daphne and Makaron into the MAME gamelist.  I have MaLa setup to look only for roms found in folders.

When I add my OtherEmu folder to the MaLa rom path I run into two scenarios:

1. Not adding information for the new roms to mame.xml: In this case, MaLa will simply ignore the dummy roms found in the OtherEmu folder if they don't have entries in the mame.xml file.  This works as it is supposed to.

2. When I add entries to the mame.xml for the non-MAME roms, mala crashes while creating the game list.

This has me stumped because on the previous beta (1.0.5xxx) it works without issue so I know my mame.xml entries are not bad.
Also, I made sure not to have duplicate roms in the MAME and OtherEmu folders.

Is this a known bug with the latest beta?

[dungbeetle46]

it seems to happen to some and not others, Loadman does know about it but doesnt have a solution as yet, I create my lists with romlister

[TheManuel]

Thank you for the feedback.

It was very mysterious to me because I went through great pains to make sure the syntax was correct in the xml file, working on a single non-MAME game to make sure I wasn't making mistakes and it just kept crashing.
There has to be something MaLa doesn't like about the xml code I was adding.

Oh well.  I'm glad to know the issue has been noted.

By the way, the MaLa forum seems a bit quiet these days.