> I don't know how to reproduce but I can confirm MSLUG randomly crashes MAME at > "Initializing..." message during startup. I don't think it's save-states related, > looks like more something not correctly cleared/initialized at startup. Maybe those > Z80 NMI changes applied recently to the driver?
Only other possibility that has been confirmed is using -cheat. Crashes happen for 32-bit due to complex cheats - which seem to be mostly for neogeo games (and some other fighting games). The next cheat release should have these fixed up.