From 099ae2484feaa77a6a436d7cf4164491de9ebde0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: goyuken <goyuken@4bbf4f03-6f44-549e-7e59-35d4b0962838>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 22:08:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] show slightly informative message if mainform tries to load
 saveram for a game that has none

---
 BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs b/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs
index 955f2dc09e..6ef485a5b7 100644
--- a/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs
+++ b/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs
@@ -1100,7 +1100,13 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 				}
 				else
 				{
-					sram = new byte[Global.Emulator.ReadSaveRam().Length];
+					var oldram = Global.Emulator.ReadSaveRam();
+					if (oldram == null)
+					{
+						MessageBox.Show("Error: tried to load saveram, but core would not accept it?");
+						return;
+					}
+					sram = new byte[oldram.Length];
 					using (var reader = new BinaryReader(
 							new FileStream(PathManager.SaveRamPath(Global.Game), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)))
 					{