P7zip

[CyberAxe]

Is there any chance of a port of p7zip? I tried running the existing binary but doesn’t work.

There’s some emulators that still don’t support ZIP (such as squidgesnes) and there are a load of ROMs that would be better 7ziped that aren’t so big that it would take eons for them to be extracted so I think it would be quite a handy utility to have

http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/

 

[Silberstein]

Yeah, been thinking about this myself. I have some 7zipped Megadrive roms which are 7.51GB extracted and 694mb compressed. Pretty damn impressive!

 

[trooper]

Don`t quote me on this, But i`m pretty sure that 7zip requires a vast amount of processing power to extract files than the likes of bog standard zip. Which would increase extracting and loading times of rom/game files by an inconvenient amount of time.

Trooper

 

[Shikaku]

Don`t quote me on this, But i`m pretty sure that 7zip requires a vast amount of processing power to extract files than the likes of bog standard zip. Which would increase extracting and loading times of rom/game files by an inconvenient amount of time.

Trooper

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No actually...

Just a vast amount of MEMORY (depending on compression chosen), especially to compress.

 

[RiX0R]

From the official 7-zip site (7-zip.org):

LZMA compression algorithm is very suitable for embedded applications.

There's no further justification but they themselves seem to promote it as a good fit.

 

[Shikaku]

From the official 7-zip site (7-zip.org):

LZMA compression algorithm is very suitable for embedded applications.

There's no further justification but they themselves seem to promote it as a good fit.

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they should put WoW in LZMA compression....

 

[yaustar]

7zip is at its best when compressing lots of similar files together (try compressing 3 files that are just copies of each other then try again with 6, compare file sizes).