Playing Console Combined Rom Packs? (SNES, GEN, NES)

Jiryn

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I've been looking through the Wiki and can't seem to find anything on this minor problem.

I didn't realize this at the time of download, but almost all my console roms are combined packs. The zip file will contain all releases, revisions, hacks, and/or translations of a single game. (I.E. Game will have Mario, Mario Europe, Mario Japan, Mario Crazy Hack, Mario Infinite Lives Hack roms all in one zip just labeled "Mario.zip" )
It was part of a set where everything contained inside was a combined version of all revisions/hack/etc of that game)

I've also noticed that certain games won't run like this.

Is there a way to run a specific game from the zip, or would it better to either re-zip the games into separate files, just play them unzipped, or go re-download them individually?

Thank you for all your help!

(Wiki pages I've referenced/read over are
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Genesis-Megadrive
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Super-Nintendo-Entertainment-System
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Nintendo-Entertainment-System )

Darksavior

You can run them uncompressed or you can compress them seperately. Or save yourself some hassle and download the "no-intro" romset. No hacks, no junk repeats if you just want the original games unmodified.

Jiryn

@Darksavior
Thanks!
Yea I grabbed a "Good Rom Set" and it was filled with so many repeats.
Like most Mario games have 20 different games in a single file.

Off topic, is there any performance difference running zipped or unzipped?

Jiryn

Yea, no I am understanding the tags better, such as [b] (bad) and No Intro.

MWGemini

You can also put things in subfolders. So I might have all my Mario games in NES\Super Mario Brothers and SNES\Super Mario World, for example. That way I can see all the variants within a particular game, but at the root level, I'm just looking at the "base" game name. It makes scraping a little bit more difficult, but that's a different issue.

Jiryn

@MWGemini said in Playing Console Combined Rom Packs? (SNES, GEN, NES):

You can also put things in subfolders. So I might have all my Mario games in NES\Super Mario Brothers and SNES\Super Mario World, for example. That way I can see all the variants within a particular game, but at the root level, I'm just looking at the "base" game name. It makes scraping a little bit more difficult, but that's a different issue.

Thank you!
No I went back and grabbed a NO INTRO set, since there would be less/no redundant files this way.

Capeman

just unzip them, with files as small as NES there are no benefits to zipping your roms, you end up saving a few KB for every couple hundred, its not worth the hassle.

elgarlic

@Jiryn said in Playing Console Combined Rom Packs? (SNES, GEN, NES):

@MWGemini said in Playing Console Combined Rom Packs? (SNES, GEN, NES):

You can also put things in subfolders. So I might have all my Mario games in NES\Super Mario Brothers and SNES\Super Mario World, for example. That way I can see all the variants within a particular game, but at the root level, I'm just looking at the "base" game name. It makes scraping a little bit more difficult, but that's a different issue.

Thank you!
No I went back and grabbed a NO INTRO set, since there would be less/no redundant files this way.

One thing you can do to further reduce your no intro set of its redundancy, is produce a "1g1r" set from it (1 game, 1 region). If you download the appropriate P/clone xml DAT (from here http://datomatic.no-intro.org/?page=download&fun=xml ) and load it into Romcenter 3.7.1, you can point it to your rom directory and have it keep only a single version of each game based on your ordered preference of regions.