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AWJ
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Re: Loading Save States Crashes Emulator
01/20/14 10:43 PM


> > Very strange, I tested savestates in the MESS aes driver just last night and they
> > worked fine, but loading a savestate in any MAME neogeo game crashes MAME unless
> you
> > load the state in the same session as you saved it.
>
> Yeah it works in MAME if you save and load it straight away, but not if you save,
> exit, start again and then load it. I didn't try MESS.
>
> (even if you save state a, exit, start again, save state b, you can load state b but
> not state a).
>
> My initial guess is that something in the save state is storing the contents of a
> pointer and not what it's pointing to, which changes each time you load.

No, it was even more pedestrian: passing the wrong size to save_pointer(). The fact that it didn't crash on MESS when I tested it was sheer dumb luck.







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Subject Posted by Posted on
* Loading Save States Crashes Emulator Big Karnak 01/20/14 04:10 PM
. * Re: Loading Save States Crashes Emulator Anonymous  01/20/14 04:30 PM
. * Re: Loading Save States Crashes Emulator AWJ  01/20/14 07:13 PM
. * Re: Loading Save States Crashes Emulator Anonymous  01/20/14 07:32 PM
. * Re: Loading Save States Crashes Emulator AWJ  01/20/14 10:43 PM
. * Re: Loading Save States Crashes Emulator Big Karnak  01/23/14 04:05 AM
. * Re: Loading Save States Crashes Emulator B2K24  01/23/14 04:07 AM
. * Re: Loading Save States Crashes Emulator Traso  01/23/14 09:01 PM
. * Re: Loading Save States Crashes Emulator Osso1  01/20/14 04:30 PM

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