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| thorus:
I have multiple rom collections that have been merged reducing the amount of space required by a large amount. Although I have not seen it mentioned much as far as support with front ends and emulators. Now I know I could use the pre-execution fields to pull it out but it would also require the FE to know which one in the zip file to grab. Has anybody tried this or do you guys just un merge and buy another Hard drive? |
| Howard_Casto:
You don't want your roms merged... you want them split/merged. Split/merged means that every single game gets it's own zip file, but any roms duplicated amoungst variants are only contained in the parent's zip. Aside from the minimal amount of space required to make the zip file itself, you will see no real size difference between merged sets and split/merged sets. The only difference is fes get a zip for each rom and thus they are happy. It's an option fro both romcenter and clrmamepro.... go fix em already. |
| Minwah:
What Howard said... Also, merged sets can cause problems for FE's recognising the clones...especially since -verifysets was removed from Mame. |
| sWampy:
Are you guys sure he wasn't talking about mame merged roms, or goodmerge merged console roms? It does a great job of cramming all the roms in the smallest space immaginable, but they aren't very useful in their smallest versions, since compacting them that way uses 7-zip archives that most console emulators don't support. To use them you would need forntend support for the format to help you. It really rocks though, cause the program understands that Castlevania is called Kumajo Dracula or whatever in Japan, and groups them, giving the main set the name you pick as your primary language. A full set of N64 roms shrinks from shrinks from something like 14 gigs down to 4.7. Complete Genesis sets shrink to a single cd size. Great for archiving, would be wonderful if frontends/emulators supported them. |
| thorus:
sWampy that is exactly what I'm talking about. I'm debating writing my own Front end because I would like that along with some other customization for the layout and finally to put all settings into a database instead of scattered files. But I wanted to make sure that it isn't available before I go too far into making my own. I have not seen any support for the 7zip merged sets that I have from emulators so I was assuming it would be handled via the front end. I haven't looked into this much for mame so really this is more of a console problem as far as I know. |
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