09089: gondou: Gondomania 2P Crashes

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
09089	Crash/Freeze	Critical (emulator)	Sometimes	Jan 18, 2025, 13:58	41 minutes ago

Tester	Ellimist	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To		Resolution	Open	OS	Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Confirmed			Driver	dataeast/dec8.cpp
Version	0.273	Fixed in Version		Build	64-bit
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	09089: gondou: Gondomania 2P Crashes
Description	Hello, I have been attempting to get a full playthrough of Gondomania in and have had the game fully crash on me every single time across about a dozen attempts. The crashing seems to happen most often when there is a lot of sprite action occurring on the screen. Normally when the red swirl weapon is used, or the bike with the wave spray attack.
Steps To Reproduce	Load into gondou rom Play game for a while, get the red swirly weapon if possible Eventually along the way the game will crash, usually when the gondola ship enemies come onto screen or get destroyed.
Additional Information	Video of some of the crashing here: The first clip has a full error that comes out at the end: https://imgur.com/a/yce79fB
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Regression Version
Affected Sets / Systems	gondou

Attached Files	lceFkVD.png (15,300 bytes) Jan 18, 2025, 23:35 Uploaded by Robbbert
Attached Files	gondou.png (5,604 bytes) Jan 19, 2025, 00:10 Uploaded by Robbbert

No.22856 hap Developer Jan 18, 2025, 18:39	Unable to reproduce on 0.273
No.22857 Robbbert Moderator Jan 18, 2025, 23:36	Copied error message from imgur so it doesn't disappear one day.
No.22858 Robbbert Moderator Jan 19, 2025, 00:11 edited on: Jan 19, 2025, 00:14	I played for a long while, and it never gave that error. Just after killing the blue bird boss, the game crashed with the picture above. Music still played slowly. The error log just showed heaps of unmapped reads and writes, and was 714MB in size. Appears that it ran into the weeds.
No.22859 Ellimist Tester Jan 19, 2025, 01:36 edited on: Jan 19, 2025, 01:43	Downloaded .273, fresh installed it, loaded up gondou for first run, played through quite a bit longer than normal, but then crashed. Recorded entire run available here: crash is at the end and timestamped in video Also it occurs when one of the gondola (enemy carrier ships) gets destroyed, which we have noticed precedes a crash frequently (though not all the time)
No.22860 Robbbert Moderator Jan 19, 2025, 03:06	I've confirmed that there is a problem, soon after the blue bird boss. The memory_bank message seems to be optional, as I never received it.
No.22861 Ellimist Tester Jan 19, 2025, 03:59	I only got the memory bank item one crash out of the dozen or so. I included it because it was the most detailed error I got. Most of the time things just froze with a weird sprite pattern or repeating background corruption. May not be relevant.
No.22868 hap Developer Jan 19, 2025, 14:28	Try again after this commit? https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/44f91511eefa3321e4a6c9af7da23bcf5440c73b
No.22903 Ellimist Tester 28 days ago	It does not seem to have. Got the nightly build from https://ashura.mameworld.info/nightlybuilds/builds.html for January 21st Tried to play. Crashed on the 3rd boss. We had the hovercycle that sprays waves in all directions (which we have previously identified as something that seemed to increase crash likelihood) Full video of the run here:
No.22904 Fortuna Tester 28 days ago edited on: 28 days ago	can confirm, tested with 2 players, this happen if the main weapon is the fireball like weapon and any weapon with more that 3 shots, many enemies in screen, cause first a slowdown and next crash, and has 3 possible problems: - Crash with a purple screen with high scores texts (screenshot) - Reset to the main screen title - Crash and send to the menu (other screenshot)
No.22905 Haze Senior Tester 28 days ago	if it only happens with this set I'd be suspicious that it's just a real game bug under the high load situation you describe, could be overflowing some internal structure
No.23021 Ellimist Tester 23 hours ago	Going to attempt to replicate crash with 1P to see if this is directly related to 2P mode. Will report back.