Well, here it is another six months later and I still have no release. Besides being very busy, I can't get unrar5 to work with unicode/utf8 properly.
Do you guys even give a crap about RAR? If I could decode all the C++ wrappers in 7zip to just add its unrar to the existing LZMA stuff, I'd try that, but I'm quite bad at following that code for some reason and have never figured it out :(
I'd like to see RAR die, and only free software formats like 7z or gz or bz2 in use.
ReplyDeleteship rar, most of people using zip or 7z
ReplyDeleteI don't care about RAR.
ReplyDeleteForget RAR, I always zip / rar the roms after renaming myself. Doesn't take to long to do anyway.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't care less about rar, if I have single roms, I keep them in single zips, as it's the most compatible format and pretty much everything can use it directly, and for larger sets, long-time-storage or backups I use 7z for best compression.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I can think of for using rar is if you collect scene releases, as they are mostly published in rars, but then, you wouldn't want to rename to those with the goodtools, would you, and just unpack them if you need what's inside
I'm not a fan of RAR, personally. In my opinion, zip would be best for speed/compatibility and 7z for compression ratio.
ReplyDeleteAll the stuff I store is generally .zip
Greetings cowering. I contributed to GoodSNES for you some years back (a lot of patched roms, testing on swc dx etc).
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, I don't really care that great of deal about WinRAR although if the thing supported 7zip, rar, and pkzip for scanning and such that would be nice but I notice most of my sets are saved in 7zip. I redid my genesis set in pkzip and the size was about the same though :\ I did that so I could put it on the Wii I think. Most emulators and stuff don't support rar or 7zip. I dunno man, I would rather see updated versions of the tools than worry about compression tools so much. Um, I gotta find the rest of these sets somewhere and I bet you are ready to release new goodsnes and another updated goodn64 so I'll be scrounging for stuff again I suppose.
Not to RAR. Is rar being used in EMU-World? don't really think so. either zip or 7z nowadays.
ReplyDeleteNot interested in rar, to little gain.
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