MAME core cannot load CPS Changer games (WOFCH and SFZCH)

[Basaza]

Summary

BizHawk 2.11.1 fails to load the CPS Changer versions of Warriors of Fate (WOFCH) and Street Fighter Zero (SFZCH).

Both ROMs immediately produce an Arcade load error with an InternalCoreException.

Other CPS1 and CPS2 games load normally on my system.

I have confirmed that the same ROM sets work correctly in standalone MAME, so this appears to be specific to BizHawk's MAME core.

Repro

1. Open BizHawk 2.11.1.
2. Load the CPS Changer ROM wofch.zip or sfzch.zip.
3. BizHawk selects the MAME arcade core.
4. The game fails to start and an Arcade load error dialog appears.

Output

A core accepted the rom, but threw an exception while loading it:

BizHawk.Emulation.Common.InternalCoreException:

Unknown load error occurred???

Host env.

• BizHawk 2.11.1
• Windows 11 64-bit
• AMD CPU R5 5600 / NVIDIA GPU 5060TI 16G

Additional information

• The issue occurs with both WOFCH and SFZCH.
• Other CPS1 and CPS2 arcade games load correctly.
• The same ROM sets work correctly in standalone MAME.
• Screenshot of the error dialog is attached below.

[Spikestuff]

work correctly in standalone MAME.

Asking for clarification sake, that's MAME 0.252 correct?
Mainly as that's the version Hawk is based on, and just to get the picture better for the devs.

[Basaza]

work correctly in standalone MAME.

Asking for clarification sake, that's MAME 0.252 correct? Mainly as that's the version Hawk is based on, and just to get the picture better for the devs.

Thanks for asking.

I tested the same ROM sets with standalone MAME 0.252, and both WOFCH and SFZCH load and run normally.

[Morilli]

Looks like that is intentional, these games are excluded from the arcade list: https://github.com/TASEmulators/mame/blob/821aa6a2f24552f8a96efd0b823b5caec8cfb3b8/src/mame/arcade.flt#L1569

[CasualPokePlayer]

The fix then is to simply remove them from the mame_machines.txt file we have.

[vadosnaprimer]

I wonder how they're there. Since those look like console-like machines, I guess it can run them but we're not providing any media?

[Morilli]

How is the mame-machine.txt generated in the first place? It seems to mostly roughly match the list from mame.lst, but it's missing some entries and has a lot of extra unsorted names at the end.