how to use .rar files

helpme · Post by **helpme** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:39 am

wandering how to play .rar files on zsnes.....plz help

AntoineWG · Post by **AntoineWG** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:41 am

Decompress them with WinRAR or some other program capable of doing such. ZSNES doesn't support RAR files and probably never will.

Gospel · Post by **Gospel** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:41 am

You can't.

Unrar the files with WinRAR, and play them normally.

If want compressed files, you'll need to unrar them, then recompress them in the .zip format.

helpme · Post by **helpme** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:43 am

thank you

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:49 am

Gospel wrote:You can't.

Unrar the files with WinRAR, and play them normally.

If want compressed files, you'll need to unrar them, then recompress them in the .zip format.

ZSNES also supports gzip, btw.

Gospel · Post by **Gospel** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:51 am

Wasn't there also talk of maybe supporting 7zip sometime, in a later version?

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:02 am

Gospel wrote:Wasn't there also talk of maybe supporting 7zip sometime, in a later version?

I haven't heard, but that might be too slow for emulators-it could take the game longer to load.

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 8:42 am

You uncompress the game in a flash at the beginning, so it wouldn't be *too* slow.

Nach was talking about a special brew of 7z that held great results with snes roms.

Post by **Agozer** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 12:11 pm

grinvader wrote:Nach was talking about a special brew of 7z that held great results with snes roms.

Is it still considered a good option or was it scrapped?

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 12:40 pm

I suppose there's just not enough time to pull that one off. We'll have to wait.

Post by **Nach** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 9:30 pm

I don't have anyone near enough time to be working on it at the moment. I did find someone however who was interested and is doing a bit of work on it for me. If other people have the skills and want to help, let me know.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 9:53 pm

grinvader wrote:Nach was talking about a special brew of 7z that held great results with snes roms.

GoodMerge?

anewuser · Post by **anewuser** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 11:23 pm

>Goodmerge?

No. A file format based off 7z, which achieved better compressiong than .rar, .zip, and .7z and designed specifically for snes roms.

nitro001 · Post by **nitro001** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:13 am

I have been using ZSNES for a few years now and haven't been active in the boards, but now is as good as time as any to start.

I have two throughts for this.

the first, 7Zip has a C++ SDK to develop. I used to be a halfway decent developer in C++ so I might be able to look at the source and integrate. Although I haven't peered into the ZSNES Source Code yet

the Second, has anyone throught about multiple roms in a zip file?
Currently if you have multiple roms, ZSNES automatically opens the first one.

For Example, I have a rom in about 10 different releases that were zipped in one file for managability (1.0, 1.1, US, Japan, Europe, etc...). The files were 64MB by themselves. With 7Zip it was only 1.65MB (Best compression I have seen almost 257% deflation). In a Zip file it was 32MB, which is 50% better. would be nice to be able to double click on a zip file, like we do now, if there is only 1 rom, it launches it, if there is > 1 rom, it lists them like it does with any other file (doesn't even need to read headers, just filenames would work), then double click on the file inside the zip to execute.

Off the top of my head I don't know how this could be implemented, but I don't think it would be that hard. I know with PKZIP, etc... you can pull a file listing without extracting.

Any ideas?
Thank you.

Nathan

Miyomei · Post by **Miyomei** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 5:25 am

@nitro: That sounds like a great feature. Maybe you should make a seperate thread about it in the Feature Request forum.

Ichinisan · Post by **Ichinisan** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 5:51 am

I've suggested archive browsing multiple times, but Nach didn't care for it.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 5:52 am

Damn that sucks.

Post by **Nach** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:23 pm

nitro001 wrote: the first, 7Zip has a C++ SDK to develop.

Do a bit of research, it's a LZMA SDK, not a 7-Zip SDK. Meaning it won't open 7z files.
Aside from that, I have a semi SDK which creates smaller files than 7z.

Ichinisan wrote:I've suggested archive browsing multiple times, but Nach didn't care for it.

It's not as much as I don't care as much as it would be a pain to implement.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:18 pm

Miyomei wrote:@nitro: That sounds like a great feature. Maybe you should make a seperate thread about it in the Feature Request forum.

That's exactly what GoodMerge does - group ROMs into sets for compressibility reasons, then compress them into 7z solid archives.

zlatan24 · Post by **zlatan24** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:30 pm

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PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:56 pm

hey asshole, look at the date on any of those posts, those guys were talking about opening rar files five years ago. they can't hear you now. please go kill yourself.

Post by **badinsults** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:15 pm

We don't really appreciate bumping ancient threads, especially when you aren't magically creating the code for zsnes to decompress rar files.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:33 am

Hint: It's spam.

Post by **grinvader** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:50 pm

I wish they'd spam us with magically created code to do badass stuff.

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