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ID Category [?] Severity [?] Reproducibility Date Submitted Last Update
08068 Crash/Freeze Critical (emulation) Always Sep 1, 2021, 14:21 Oct 17, 2021, 02:13
Tester Wayder View Status Public Platform MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To AJR Resolution Fixed OS Windows 10 (64-bit)
Status [?] Resolved Driver
Version 0.235 Fixed in Version 0.237 Build 64-bit
Fixed in Git Commit 02c66ad Github Pull Request #
Summary 08068: changes, changesa, hopprobo, looper, marineb, springer: Pressing reset freezes the game
Description Pressing reset(F3) freezes the game.

 Changes / Looper
 Hopper Robo
 Marine Boy
 Springer
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Regression Version 0.221
Affected Sets / Systems changes, changesa, hopprobo, looper, marineb, springer
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related to 08237ResolvedRobbbert  rpatrolb, rpatrol, rpatroln, silvland: Resetting game crashes with ram error. 
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No.19200
Tafoid
Administrator
Sep 2, 2021, 00:09
Regression appears tied to this change
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/6517
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/7339d77c024e461518ecaa69440e347d3e74e739
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No.19210
JSDS
Tester
Sep 2, 2021, 08:46
espial, espialu and netwars (espial.cpp) have the same problem in 0.221 or later.
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No.19220
hap
Developer
Sep 3, 2021, 14:10
Pressing F3 is like adding a wire to the RESET pins of all the chips on the PCBs, and then strobing it.
I'm not surprised it would cause problems, it's not something that arcade game manufacturers have accounted for.

Solution: press Shift+F3, that's a genuine power-cycle.