Rom handling... .7z

[joa]

I'm quite fond of Goodmerge+Goodgen...

With a complete romset on the genesis compressed i was wondering whether it's likely i'll be able to use those files and choose the said rom within the compressed archive...

I guess this is more of an emulator compatibility question, thoughts?

Nice to see people again what with the recent down-time. :lol:

 

[joa]

This is quite important for a few reasons...

something to bare in mind is that a complete SNES romset is 16.5gig

When you archive all releases of a single game into 7z compressed archive, (makes for sifting through games easier too) the complete romset will be below 2gig. And most of us will be getting 8/16/32 gb SDHC's.

 

[ashdjones]

Don't you get the same effect compressing each individual rom too?

 

[Kyosys]

Do you really need the complete romset?

None the less, I agree. What I really like doing is playing super mario world hacks on my DS, and surely compression would save me many many megabytes!

 

[joa]

Don't you get the same effect compressing each individual rom too?

Well there are lots of releases of a single game, so 1 archive will contain several roms. - albeit the same game.

you're right it is OTT to have every rom, but meh! if we've got the space

 

[ashdjones]

Okay I get what you mean now, I thought you meant archives of complete romsets!