[RESOLVED] hitotext crash after update gameex from 10.19 to latest

[magenois]

Hello,

This morning I updated my cabinet to the latest version of GameEx. before i've been running GameEx 10.19 for many many months without issues.

Since I updated, every time I launch a game, I get a Hitotext crash. What should I try to fix that?

thanks

EDIT: just did some more test and it's worse than only the hitotext issue. GameEx will freeze upon selecting some mame game from the favorite list and I need to turn off the power on the cabinet.

[Draco1962]

Can you post your last log file?

[Adultery]

Just out of curiosity... You didn't update your MAME build too did you? I'm thinking your problems will stop if you disable hiscore support in GameEx and try to run it, or more permanently, recompile your MAME build.

I only saw this issue once before on my machine but an updated MAME build fixed it for me.

[magenois]

Just out of curiosity... You didn't update your MAME build too did you? I'm thinking your problems will stop if you disable hiscore support in GameEx and try to run it, or more permanently, recompile your MAME build.

I only saw this issue once before on my machine but an updated MAME build fixed it for me.

nope, I only updated GameEx, same mame build. My cabinet is now working by turning off the high score option in GameEx. I'll re-enable it and post a log file tomorrow.

[Adultery]

I'm sure you just need to recompile MAME to make it work. There was an update of HiToText in there if I recall.

So the question is: How bad did you want that functionality back?

[magenois]

I'm sure you just need to recompile MAME to make it work. There was an update of HiToText in there if I recall.

So the question is: How bad did you want that functionality back?

I think i'll just leave the high score support to off in gameex. Didnt really used it much anyway.

Also, if I decide to try to get it working again, I assume that just recompiling my MAME build will give the same results, so I guess there is an updated hi-score patch that I need to apply to my MAME source, right?

[Adultery]

Yeah. The patch gets updated with every MAME build.