.RAR and .ZIP files that contain multiple SNES ROMs

[pop7897]

ZSNES should be able to look in .RAR or .ZIP files and detect the ROMs because they take up too much space if extracted my ROMs equal up to 1.05 GB while in .RAR form.

I got a NES emulator called Nestopia from emuator-zone.com that looks in .RAR files for NES ROMs and allows you to execute them from there.

Does anybody know of an emulator that can look in .RAR files for ROMs?

Or can ZSNES be made to look in .RAR files for ROMs?

[Deathlike2]

ZSNES should be able to look in .RAR or .ZIP files and detect the ROMs because they take up too much space if extracted my ROMs equal up to 1.05 GB while in .RAR form.

I got a NES emulator called Nestopia from emuator-zone.com that looks in .RAR files for NES ROMs and allows you to execute them from there.

Does anybody know of an emulator that can look in .RAR files for ROMs?

Or can ZSNES be made to look in .RAR files for ROMs?

You can definately open a ROM in a zip file w/o issues... this is not possible with multiple ROMs in the zip file IIRC.

ZSNES probably could open RAR files if it had the libs, but I doubt that will be added.

[pop7897]

So is there a way to open RAR files with ZSNES or any other snes emulator?

[Deathlike2]

No, and probably no other SNES emulator either. You are better off extracting the file or using a zip file instead.

Alternatively, if you REALLY need the space, go use JMA. You can use NSRT http://nsrt.edgeemu.com/ to create JMA files. They are reable in ZSNES, Snes9x, and SNEeSe...

[pop7897]

But I already have thousands of ROMs in .RAR files is there anyway at all to look in .RAR files for ROMs like the NES emulator Nestopia?

[Deathlike2]

No. The only thing I can think of is if there is a frontend for SNES emulators to handle decompressing the ROM in .rar file on the fly when you want to play them... and they don't exist.

You either use JMA or else there's nothing you can do. Frankly it is pointless to continue finding other solutions other than converting your RAR files to JMA which most SNES emus use and still retain the compression you desire.

[snkcube]

Well, isn't RAR closed source? If it's closed source, you can't do anything about it.

[mytmyke]

Most archive utilities have a batch function. Why not unzip all you roms and compress them (in .zip format) using the batch function. I believe Nach's SNES Rom tool has this function also. I don't think anyone wants to add .rar support just so people can save a few megs of disk space. Or you can unzip all roms and buy a bigger hard drive.

[xamenus]

If you're lucky, you might be able to get the QuickPlay frontend to do this.

http://quickplay.sf.net

[pop7897]

Well okay then is there anyway to zip multiple files at a time?

[paulguy]

im sure there's a commandline method but im not experienced with windows's command line. I'm pretty rusty with bash too.but yeah im running into this problem with my goodset; even with the crap removed it's still pretty big but im sure it all fits on 1 DVD-R. You could try that.

[Poobah]

Well okay then is there anyway to zip multiple files at a time?

Try this. Copy it into the folder with the files you wish to zip, or just copy it into your Windows\System32 directory if you plan to use it multiple times. Open up a command prompt, navigate to the directory containing the files that you want to archive, and type something like:

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batch_zip *.smc

You should be able to work out how to use it.

It generates a batch file, "output.bat". Just double-click it, and then you can delete it.

In order for the above program to work, you'll need to download and install 7-Zip if you don't already have it. Once installed, copy "7z.exe" from 7-Zip's installation directory into your Windows\System32 directory.