xmame/xmess 0.82.1 released today. Just needs a version bump on the ebuild. Tested and works for me. Thanks. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43431 should probably be tackled along with this bug, it's simply a trivial fix.
*** Bug 51875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please close - this has been bumped in portage (unless you want to leave it open for 0.83.1 which will be out in a couple days :) )...
Old and missed close.