It took me a long time to narrow this down. I was trying to put Marquee artwork up for a Dungeons and Dragons game, but it would always crash mame64 (current version). The marquee artwork worked fine on the other games. I narrowed it down to the filename of the PNG file; it was "D&D..." changing the "&" to "and" resolved the problem. If this is an illegal character, then perhaps a warning message could be printed in the log file indicating that the filename is invalid. That would of saved me hours trying to figure out what went wrong.
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Robert Cook
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Re: Emulator Crash When Marquee Filename contains an &
- Did you validate the XML in your layout file first?
- Did you use an entity reference for the ampersand character? It's a syntactic element of XML so you need to use the entity reference & when you want a literal ampersand.
- Did MAME actually crash, or just exit with an error? If it actually crashed, was it a segmentation fault, or some other kind of crash? Can you provide a stack trace?