After discovering that the mouse works very well in the DOS build of MAME, I got the Emu Loader front end and I was using the DOS version exclusively for about a day.
I played a few games that I like, and then set it down for a while and came back to it. The same games that I was playing are now causing MAME to crash right after it loads their roms. It only happens on two or three games.
So I restarted my computer. That didn't work.
I downloaded the pentium-optimized version of the DOS build, that did the same thing.
I downloaded the MAMEW version, both unoptimized and optimized and they did the same thing.
Any ideas? I don't know why the DOS version would work fine for about half a day, and then decide it doesn't want to play GI Joe or Food Fight. I haven't changed anything on my computer since I got the DOS build.
If only I could get the mouse to work in MAME32, I wouldn't have to deal with this. Besides, I like that Emu Loader front end.