Umm...

[bennyboy]

This is pretty stupid, but when i download some games/emulators all i get is one file which isnt recognised by my gp2x and i dont know what to do with it... im not so clever... i really wna to try the mame emulator but im not sure how to load it, theres no readme or anything

 

[dosteridge]

They are zipped, try unzipping your downloaded file (on your pc) and you will find the readme

I use winrar

 

[Shikaku]

http://7-zip.com can extract everything on the site and is free...

 

[bennyboy]

ive unzipped everything, say i try to download the MAMEGP2x emulator all there is is a .rar file and i dont know what to do with it!

 

[Shikaku]

Extract the rar file, RAR is like zip but a better...

 

[bennyboy]

ah, thank you!

 

[sam fisher]

Extract the rar file, RAR is like zip but a better...

In your opinion...

 

[___]

rar has a better compression algorythm available and is more open than zip eg: BETTER!

 

[Shikaku]

rar has a better compression algorythm available and is more open than zip eg: BETTER!

Actually zip is more open, you can download loads of different implementations with source that still work with pkunzip =)

RAR has a open source decompression module, and the source cannot be used to make a compression module out of it, but allows any program to decompress RARs as they want. RAR is not more open than zip.

RAR is definitely better than zip, but I define "better" by average compression levels. 7zip is better than RAR in my opinion, and also free and open source.

 

[___]

Ah okay, I didn`t know that only the decompression module was open source... that puts it back of course, but still better than zip. 7zip seems to be the winnder all along anyway...