[V99pre7] Error on list generation

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Program crashes during list (.lst/.ftr file) creation.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "wahcade.py", line 76, in <module>
    app = WinMain(options)
  File "/usr/share/games/wahcade/win_main.py", line 300, in __init__
    self.load_emulator()
  File "/usr/share/games/wahcade/win_main.py", line 1063, in load_emulator
    self.load_list()
  File "/usr/share/games/wahcade/win_main.py", line 1120, in load_list
    self.current_filter = filters.read_filter(filter_file)
  File "/usr/share/games/wahcade/filters.py", line 444, in read_filter
    for line in f:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 679, in next
    return self.reader.next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 610, in next
    line = self.readline()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 525, in readline
    data = self.read(readsize, firstline=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 472, in read
    newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 0: unexpected code byte

This happens using either setup editor or create list function in main wahcade program

using Ubuntu 9.04 32 bit.

Program runs fine using .lst/.ftr files from old, archived version (pre hardware failure - unknown wahcade software revision) attempts to either create new or overwrite old results in error(s) above.

[Andy Balcombe (andy-balcombe)]

Hi,

Have you tried regenerating the mameinfo.xml file before trying to create the lists?

Cheers,
Andy

[wibble (mwhite)]

I have noticed this on a new build running Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop.

we have all our roms/snap/marquees/cpanel/flyers folders symlinked from /var/Mame/<folder> to ~/emulators/mame/<folder>

For a test we copied a handful of the roms into other folders and were able to generate a filter using this without error. The issue appears to be with the way the filter is generated and parsing the data in the ROMs themselves.

I am going to try and see if i can isolate a few ROM files that are causing issues. I am going to leave the other folders with the graphics etc in complete as i wouldnt have thought these will be affected in the building of the filters list.

Will post my findings shortly

[Andy Balcombe (andy-balcombe)]

Hi wibble,

Any progress?

Cheers,
Andy

[Wayne Moulden (waynemou)]

FYI, This bug is still present in v99pre8 under both linux and windows.

[Joeltron (yo-joeltron)]

Bug is still present in 1.0pre1, however I found a work-around.

Try using a mameinfo.xml generated from an older mame - I found sucess with v0.132 (Jun 30 2009).