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Title: How to make 7z into ZIP???? (n64)
Post by: anthonylitz on November 16, 2004, 02:05:55 pm

I got a bunch of N64 stuff in 7z compressed format, a few of you might have seen these around too.  Whats the easy way to convert them to ZIP so they match the file extention of my other roms and work in Mamewah?

Thanks,
Anthony

Title: Re:How to make 7z into ZIP???? (n64)
Post by: Minwah on November 16, 2004, 02:17:25 pm

Download 7-zip from: http://www.7-zip.org,
Extract all your roms,
Zip em back up again.

The commandline version (or feature) should make it easy using wildcards etc..

Title: Re:How to make 7z into ZIP???? (n64)
Post by: Minwah on November 16, 2004, 02:19:32 pm

Or you could just set the rom_extension to '7z' (assuming your emulator supports them of course).

Title: Re:How to make 7z into ZIP???? (n64)
Post by: anthonylitz on November 16, 2004, 03:39:05 pm

Yeah, I will have to try the command line version.  Didn't relize there was one.  I was using the windows version and there just doesn't seem to be a "Extract each to seprate folder" command.  I was un-7zing them seprately, after and hour not being half done, gave up on that tedious task.  I tried to find a batch program, but nopers again.  So I will look into the commandline ver.

Thanks,
Anthony

Title: Re:How to make 7z into ZIP???? (n64)
Post by: Minwah on November 16, 2004, 05:43:34 pm

Quote from: anthonylitz on November 16, 2004, 03:39:05 pm

Yeah, I will have to try the command line version.  Didn't relize there was one.  I was using the windows version and there just doesn't seem to be a "Extract each to seprate folder" command.  I was un-7zing them seprately, after and hour not being half done, gave up on that tedious task.  I tried to find a batch program, but nopers again.  So I will look into the commandline ver.

Why do you want to extract them to separate folders?  As long as there is only one file in each (I'm assuming there is?) then extract them all to the same folder, and then use a commandline zip program to zip them all up in separate zipfiles (I'm assuming such a zip program must exist also!).

Title: Re:How to make 7z into ZIP???? (n64)
Post by: Silver on November 17, 2004, 08:50:00 am

Quote from: anthonylitz on November 16, 2004, 03:39:05 pm

I was un-7zing them seprately, after and hour not being half done, gave up on that tedious task.

Yes 7zip is one of the best compressors in terms of size, but its very slow at compression/decompressing...

Title: Re:How to make 7z into ZIP???? (n64)
Post by: 2600 on November 17, 2004, 10:04:31 am

zipzag allow you to convert from one format to another.

Title: Re:How to make 7z into ZIP???? (n64)
Post by: Nemo22 on November 17, 2004, 12:34:55 pm

latest version of winrar (3.4+) supports 7z, and can batch convert to zip or rar