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Title: Cool little program.....
Post by: P-Funk on July 26, 2003, 05:42:06 pm

Hey all,

I recently found myself in a position of having to unzip several thousand roms files.  I found a cool little program called 'Unzip Them All'.  It worked great for me.  You can grab it here.

http://www.herve-thouzard.com/unzipus.phtml

Word of caution though:  It defaults to creating a sub directory for each unzipped file.  Doh!  So change that setting first.

Title: ROM zips vs. individual folders
Post by: AlanS17 on July 26, 2003, 05:54:17 pm

How beneficial would it be to have every MAME rom open in its own folder rather than using the ZIPs? I wonder i it could substantially increase loading times...

Title: Re:Cool little program.....
Post by: u_rebelscum on July 28, 2003, 03:13:12 am

And if you unzip the ROMs, the files need to be in their own folders with the same name as the zip file, anyway.

I say keep them zipped, though.  (Depending on the CPU speed vs the harddrive speed) Many modern computers can load and unzip a zip file faster than loading the same files (as in the zip file) unzipped on the same harddrive.  Plus the disk space you save, CMPro, and copying/backing up, why unzip?  *shrug*

Title: Re:Cool little program.....
Post by: P-Funk on July 28, 2003, 11:34:27 am

I used it for my Atari 2600 and NES roms.  Because I was having trouble getting Z26 and Nester to read zip files.  Once unzipped, everything worked great.  

Title: Re:Cool little program.....
Post by: eightbit on July 31, 2003, 08:55:24 am

Oh the world of GUI interfaces. DOS pkunzip wasone of the origanel compression tools and it could handle an entire directory of zips to be unzipped at one time...

Title: Re:Cool little program.....
Post by: CitznFish on August 08, 2003, 08:27:34 pm

winRAR allows you to unzip multiple zip files. I use this program for everything compression related. Much better than winZIP

Title: Re:Cool little program.....
Post by: Odonadon on August 08, 2003, 10:52:36 pm

Quote from: CitznFish on August 08, 2003, 08:27:34 pm

winRAR allows you to unzip multiple zip files. I use this program for everything compression related. Much better than winZIP

CitznFish is right.  Plus, WinRAR gives you the ability to unzip multiple archies into their own directory with the same name as the zip filename anyway.  

Best archiving/unarchiving utility I've ever used.  By far.

Odonadon

Title: Re:Cool little program.....
Post by: _Iz- on August 14, 2003, 03:12:09 pm

Winzip will unzip multiple files at once.

You select them all in windows explorer, right click somewhere in the highlighted area and then in the pop-up menu choose winzip -> extract to (here)...

Title: Re:Cool little program.....
Post by: IceCold on August 15, 2003, 09:12:19 pm

winace does the same thing too.

Title: Re:Cool little program.....
Post by: SirPoonga on August 16, 2003, 12:53:12 am

Quote from: P-Funk on July 26, 2003, 05:42:06 pm

I recently found myself in a position of having to unzip several thousand roms files.

why?