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ID Category [?] Severity [?] Reproducibility Date Submitted Last Update
07228 Crash/Freeze Critical (emulation) Always Feb 11, 2019, 10:42 Feb 13, 2019, 23:09
Tester VasiliyFamiliya View Status Public Platform MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To Resolution Open OS Windows 10 (64-bit)
Status [?] Confirmed Driver
Version 0.206 Fixed in Version Build 64-bit
Fixed in Git Commit Github Pull Request #
Summary 07228: srdarwin: Game freeze at the end of 1st stage.
Description At the place of 1st stage boss encounter, the D letters fills each odd tile string, and game stopls, althought the music is still continues to play.
Steps To Reproduce Playthrogh the 1st stage till the boss without of any damage taking (using the state saving).
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Regression Version 0.206
Affected Sets / Systems srdarwin
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png file icon 0000.png (5,280 bytes) Feb 11, 2019, 10:42 Uploaded by VasiliyFamiliya
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zip file icon savestate.zip (3,874 bytes) Feb 11, 2019, 10:43 Uploaded by VasiliyFamiliya
Save of the state before bug appearance.
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No.16125
MetalGod
Senior Tester
Feb 11, 2019, 22:02
edited on: Feb 12, 2019, 00:37
I've done some testing and found out that the regression is mame 0.206
The bug is not present in mame 0.205 and previous versions.
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No.16133
Haze
Senior Tester
Feb 12, 2019, 15:43
edited on: Feb 12, 2019, 15:44
yeah this is very sensitive to MCU timing / comms, the slightest thing it doesn't like and it will randomly break on any one of the bosses when it wants data.

I had to play the thing extensively when the MCU was added to make sure it never failed, I guess somebody altered the code.

Tafoid, can you track down the exact revision and point whoever broke it at this report? bit annoying to see this regress after the time put into making sure it didn't crash.
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No.16135
Osso
Moderator
Feb 12, 2019, 19:43
Couldn't get the attached save state to work with a current GIT build. I got to the boss with the invincibility cheat and didn't get the problem. Would it be possible for the original bug reporter to test this on a current GIT build (without cheats, of course)?
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No.16143
Haze
Senior Tester
Feb 13, 2019, 23:09
edited on: Feb 13, 2019, 23:10
it didn't *always* occur even when it was broken before, but it occurred often enough to be game-breaking usually occurring at least once in a run. I ended up running a stress test sending random inputs to loop the game through over and overagain to make sure it no longer crashed and ran it for some hours last time.

I guess it just frustrates me because a lot of work was put into making it work before, and that was just disregarded for what 'seems' better from a coding point of view, even if it doesn't work.