MAME core fails to run Taito Air System games (Top Landing 1988, Air Inferno 1990)

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Summary

When attempting to run Top Landing (1988) and Air Inferno (1990) in BizHawk’s MAME core, the emulator throws an error and fails to start the game. These titles run correctly in standalone MAME, but not in BizHawk. This issue has been present since BizHawk 2.9.0 (the first release with MAME core support) and persists in the latest version (tested on v2.11).

Repro

1. Launch BizHawk v2.11 (64‑bit).
2. Select the MAME core.
3. Load Top Landing (1988) or Air Inferno (1990).
4. Launch BizHawk v2.11 (64‑bit).

Select the MAME core.

Load Top Landing (1988) or Air Inferno (1990).

Observe the error message

Output

A core accepted the rom, but threw an exception while loading it:
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: range end < start
Parameter name: endInclusive
Actual value was 2047.
   at BizHawk.Common.MutableRange`1.Overwrite(T start, T endInclusive) in /src/BizHawk.Common/Ranges.cs:line 51
   at BizHawk.Emulation.Cores.Arcades.MAME.MAME.GetInputFields() in /src/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Arcades/MAME/MAME.IInputPollable.cs:line 77
   at BizHawk.Emulation.Cores.Arcades.MAME.MAME.StartMAME(List`1 roms) in /src/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Arcades/MAME/MAME.cs:line 235
   at BizHawk.Emulation.Cores.Arcades.MAME.MAME..ctor(CoreLoadParameters`2 lp) in /src/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Arcades/MAME/MAME.cs:line 72
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at BizHawk.Emulation.Cores.CoreInventory.Core.Create(ICoreInventoryParameters cip) in /src/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/CoreInventory.cs:line 144
   at BizHawk.Client.Common.RomLoader.MakeCoreFromCoreInventory(CoreInventoryParameters cip, String forcedCoreName) in /src/BizHawk.Client.Common/RomLoader.cs:line 433

Host env.

BizHawk 2.11; Windows 11 Home; Intel CPU / NVIDIA GPU

Also tested starting from BizHawk 2.9.0 onward (issue present in all versions with MAME core).

Screenshots

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Crash was fixed in 18b312b but analog inputs won't work.