From 93254b4b6ee35ed64efd1e13977b77ca6623ade8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alyosha-tas <alexei.f.k@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:35:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update RomLoader.cs

Fixes #865
---
 BizHawk.Client.Common/RomLoader.cs | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/BizHawk.Client.Common/RomLoader.cs b/BizHawk.Client.Common/RomLoader.cs
index 6f0f250422..3f89408972 100644
--- a/BizHawk.Client.Common/RomLoader.cs
+++ b/BizHawk.Client.Common/RomLoader.cs
@@ -317,6 +317,15 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.Common
 					}
 					else
 					{
+						// at this point, file is either assigned to the ROM path, if it exists,
+						// or is empty and corecomm is not a libretro core
+						// so, we still need to check path here before continuing
+						if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(path))
+						{
+							Console.WriteLine("No ROM to Load");
+							return false;
+						}
+						
 						// if not libretro:
 						// do extension checknig
 						ext = file.Extension.ToLowerInvariant();