ROMLister (v22) & Error reading game list file

[iwillfearnoevil]

I tried using RomLister (v22) to generated a filtered mame game list but keep ending up with "Error reading game list file!". Just curious if it's me or if maybe it's not saving in right format. Has anyone recently used this cool tool successfully with MaLa?

[iwillfearnoevil]

hmmmm tried generating more lists ... this time added a country filter ... most lists were small (under 150 games) but all loaded properly in mala ... not sure if there's a certain game somewhere in the big list causing file not to load or what ... did some more narrowing and 2/4 way joystick lists work but it fails at 8-way. i guess that's most of games so doesn't exactly narrow it down ... maybe by category now

[NOP]

what MAME version were you using as your XML input?
There was something in the 135 and higher releases that was tripping up the list outputs, which I thought I fixed with v22, but it may be possible that something was missed.

pop me an email jeff at silent dot net, and we will get to the bottom of this.  you may need to zip up your xml file and post it somewhere i can get to it to try and reproduce the issue.

another thing would be to output the list rom names only or something else in text format, and then take a look.  if the names turn to mush halfway down the list, then i have a bug to fix.

[iwillfearnoevil]

email sent - it was mame 135. i tried to whittle categories down as much as i could so output file would be smaller to debug. really appreciate your time, thank you.

[iwillfearnoevil]

fyi - NOP discovered romlister was stumbling over john elway team quarterback rom - removing that rom and romlister worked like a charm! thanks to NOP for his time debugging the problem.

[NOP]

...and i'm still not exactly sure why that particular ROM was causing troubles!

i believe i've fixed a problem, but still need another day or two before the new release is available to give it the final nod of approval.