EMUlaunch is a front-end application used for launching games on fifteen popular emulators (Nes, SNES, Atari 2600, MacMAME, N64, Atari 5200, GB, Coleco, Sega Master, GBA, T16, Atari Lynx, Sega Genesis) on the Mac.

Recent security update may have broken MAME list building support

Seems that the php script built by EMUlaunch is no longer executing correctly under 10.4.10 or 10.5.6. I suspect one of the recent security updates has caused this but I am not 100% sure. EMUlaunch creates a PHP file which it creates for your setup to parse through your roms and give them the correct name based off of MAME’s listxml file. This php file resides in ~/Preferences/EMUlaunch-mame.php

The terminal command to launch this php file and subsequently build the EMUlaunch-mame.xml file should be:
php /Users/shortname/Library/Preferences/EMUlaunch-mame.php

if all goes well terminal will output:
You have successfully written data to /Users/shortname/Library/Preferences/EMUlaunch-mame.xml

This is not the case right now and new setups do not seem to be able to create their MAME list. CHMOD 777 on the file does not seem to fix this issue and using sudo does not work either.

Weird fix
If you open the php file in TextMate and select Run from the PHP bundle and then run the file from terminal it seems to work. I am really not sure as to why. Any feedback on a fix for this would be appreciated.

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