From 64e8270cab2352a2f28aebacfc070502ee2b3173 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J.D. Purcell" <jdpurcell@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 17:00:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update check fix.

---
 BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/UpdateChecker.cs | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/UpdateChecker.cs b/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/UpdateChecker.cs
index 02ebfcb44a..34dc4d7748 100644
--- a/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/UpdateChecker.cs
+++ b/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/UpdateChecker.cs
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 			{
 				JObject response = JObject.Parse(DownloadURLAsString(_latestVersionInfoURL));
 
-				LatestVersion = (string)response["name"];
+				LatestVersion = ValidateVersionNumberString((string)response["name"]);
 			}
 			catch
 			{
@@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 			return responseStream.ReadToEnd();
 		}
 
+		private static string ValidateVersionNumberString(string versionNumber)
+		{
+			return versionNumber != null && ParseVersion(versionNumber) != 0 ? versionNumber : "";
+		}
+
 		// Major version goes in the first 16 bits, and so on, up to 4 parts
 		private static ulong ParseVersion(string str)
 		{