question about MESS emulator and file naming

[shateredsoul]

Does anyone know what MESS uses for naming it's roms? do they use the goodset names or no intro names? or do they have their own naming method?

I've had a hard time searching for this .. part of it is with the fact that they call their bios roms and their roms are called software.  I have the Atari 2600, but none of th egames for the Atarti 7800 and 5200 are showing.

[ahofle]

There isn't a naming convention, you just put everything in the folder that you define for the platform's software.  For Atari 2600 for example, you'd create a folder under software called a2600 and drop all your zip files in there.  Basically, the folder names should match the bios rom name, but the software can be named anything.

[shateredsoul]

Thanks, the issue was that the files were zipped as .7z files, and mess can't read those type of files.