CMD: Strange behaviour when trying to launch a game by gameid

[Thunderforge]

ScummVM 2.0.0git (Nov 26 2017 14:31:52)
Features compiled in: Vorbis FLAC MP3 RGB zLib MPEG2 Theora AAC FreeType2 JPEG PNG cloud (servers, local)

I get a strange behaviour which i think might be a bug (but i'm not sure).

Steps to reproduce: (at least what i did)
You need some games installed and have a scummvm.ini ready.

1. Go to your console
2. Type "scummvm indy3" to start your game, BUT make sure that your game ID is different, .e.g.

My (only) entry for Indiana Jones III looks like this

[indy3-fm]
description=Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (FM-TOWNS/English)
path=Games:GamesVM/Lucas Arts/Indiana Jones/The Last Crusade
gameid=indy3
language=en
platform=fmtowns
guioptions=sndNoSpeech sndNoMIDI midiTowns noAspect lang_English

(Yeah, thank you, it did cost a little fortune on eBay) :-)

2. Typing the wrong gameid ("indy3" instead of "indy3-fm"), leads to scummvm printing following message in console:
   User picked target 'indy3' (gameid 'indy3')...
   Looking for a plugin supporting this gameid... SCUMM [all games]
   Starting 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'
   WARNING: SCUMM [all games] failed to instantiate engine: Path does not exist (target 'indy3', path')!

Which is true, because i don't have an entry called "indy3" and as such no path configured.

Now comes the weird part.

4. I get a little window in which it tells me:
   Error running game: Path does not exist

and after that i'm thrown into the LAUNCHER (which i didn't want in the first place)

5. Now scroll either down to your original game entry and or see instantly that scummvm has magically added a new entry to the game's list (in my case) called "Indy3" (which is set to default everywhere when looking at it with "Edit Game"***).

Well, i didn't want it to create a nerw entry and i didn't want to end up in Launcher again.

Those are two misbehavings which needs to be fixed imho.

The new entry is NOT saved btw. If i Quit the Launcher it won't be available in scummvm.ini.

*** The same action leads to a crash in ResidualVM btw, but i'll create a bug report there aswell

AmigaOS4 - PPC -SDL - BE
gcc (adtools build 5.3.0) 5.3.0

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Ticket migrated from Trac

• Type: defect
• Time: 2017-11-26 08:04:44.728414
• Changetime: 2018-11-09 22:06:22.309372
• Component: --Other--
• Priority: normal
• Owner: bonki
• Reporter: raziel-
• Status: closed
• Resolution: duplicate
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