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Author Topic: Z26 and zipped roms ???  (Read 1448 times)

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Z26 and zipped roms ???
« on: July 02, 2003, 11:10:22 pm »
Am I missing something here, or does the atari 2600 emu -Z26 not work with zipped roms  ???.

I thought it did for some reason, but just started playing some more with this emu last night and haven't managed to get it working with zipped roms.

Since there are 2 file extensions in the good2600 set (.a26 and bin), and by the sound of things (from what I read of another thread), no way to have 2 rom name extension in mamewah (which I have also just started playing with, well the new version anyway), I guess this means I will have to setup two emu's in mamewah for the 2600 stuff.

Would this be about the gist of it ?

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Re:Z26 and zipped roms ???
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2003, 08:55:55 am »
Yep.  I had the same problem.

I unzipped all my ROMs and changed all the BIN extensions to A26.  That seems to work just fine.  Plus I think the good2600.dat file uses ALL A26 extensions anyway.

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Re:Z26 and zipped roms ???
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2003, 11:26:26 am »
not a big deal really with atarei roms.  the whole set is less than 10 meg

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Re:Z26 and zipped roms ???
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2003, 08:59:39 pm »
> I unzipped all my ROMs and changed all the BIN
> extensions to A26.  That seems to work just fine.  ?
> Plus I think the good2600.dat file uses ALL A26
> extensions anyway.

Cool. I assumed that if the file extensions were not correct, z26 would handle them incorrectly.

As for the dat file, I have given up on them (other than for use by the FE). I was having so many problems with using DAT files to check my roms (jaguar and lynx were prime candidates). Now I just use the good tools (as in the actual good exe's) to check my good roms - haven't had a problem yet !

Cheers for the replies guys.

Martin