lr-mess vs lr-mess2016

[rkoster]

I just got Creativision, Arcadia 2001, and Bally Astrocade working in lr-mess.

However, they do not work in lr-mess2016. I was messing with this because I thought maybe the emulation would be better in the later version of MESS.

Verbose log shows the place where they deviate in behavior.

lr-mess (launch and then exit after the game runs successfully):

[libretro INFO] Starting game from command line:/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcadia/autorace.zip
[libretro INFO] ARGUV[0]=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcadia/autorace.zip
[libretro WARN] Driver autorace not found -1
[libretro WARN] Game not found: autorace
[libretro INFO] Game name: arcadia, Game description: Arcadia 2001
Adding monitor screen0 (640 x 480) a:1.333333
SOURCE FILE: ../../../../../src/mame/drivers/arcadia.cpp
PARENT: 0
NAME: arcadia
DESCRIPTION: Arcadia 2001
YEAR: 1982
MANUFACTURER: Emerson
[libretro INFO] RES:1
[libretro INFO] MAIN FIRST
[INFO] Environ SET_GEOMETRY.
[INFO] SET_GEOMETRY: 192x262, aspect: 1.333.
w:192 h:262 a:1.333333
[INFO] Unloading game..
[INFO] Unloading core..
RETRO DEINIT
retro_finish begin
Average speed: 99.70% (2 seconds)
retro exit machine
retro_finish end
[INFO] Unloading core symbols..
[INFO] Saved core options file to "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg"
[INFO] Threaded video stats: Frames pushed: 53, Frames dropped: 144.

lr-mess2016:

[libretro INFO] Starting game:/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcadia/autorace.zip
[libretro WARN] Driver autorace not found -1
[libretro ERROR] Driver not found autorace
[libretro INFO] Game name: arcadia, Game description: Arcadia 2001
[libretro INFO] Creating frontend for game: autorace
[libretro INFO] Softlists: 1

"autorace" approximately matches the following
supported software items (best match first):

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1012: 24922 Segmentation fault      /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess2016/mess2016_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/arcadia/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcadia/autorace.zip" --verbose --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

I see from other posts that this is common with lr-mess2016. What has me curious is that they seem to diverge at the softlist stage. It's not clear to me whether anyone has ever gotten lr-mess2016 working?