hi. i'm running surreal of cdrw atm and it don't seem to be able to show or load my zipped roms if i burn cdrw witn unzipped roms it works. cant figure out why this is i've been told surreal works fine with zipped roms

just cant get this to work with zips tryed zipping roms with winrar and romzipper but zipped roms don't show up. maybe it's cos i'm running off cdrw?

i don't think it has zip support so it doesn't read zip files...

It has zip support and it reads zip files fine.

Use winzip to zip your files, with no out of the standard compressions, or passwords and it will be able to open them in surreal.

Sounds like your using a non standard compression or your password protecting them.

Yup, I zipped my roms with PKZIP.EXE (funky batch file I wrote to batch zip 'em) and every one works fine in Surreal64.

Bonus: I first renamed them with GoodN64, then zipped em, then shortened the names with PreXboxCopyTool, and I get the box art on all titles (including ones that didn't display before.)

i had similar problem
it i batched zipped with winrar with .zip extension setting for best compression
some roms showed, some didnt
so i kept the ones that worked zipped
and rest (2 games) i left unzipped

Does Surreal run better with zipped roms? I am having a bear of a time with slow games. Mainly 007 Goldeneye

Does it take more memory to use zipped roms? Like doesn't Surreal 64 have to store the zip in memory to decompress it?

and to the guy above, no it won't change anything, just try a good rom version with [!] on the end. And only the US 007 version works I heard. So get "Goldeneye 007 (U) [!]".

zipped or unziped does not change the gameplay.

The only reason your goldeneye was going slow is you are either not playing it with UltraHLE, or you are using the 16mb overdump. Use the 12mb version instead.

once again,

does it affect memory (since rob1309 had problems with some zipped games)?

cheers guys i will try and rezip them with winzip.

Cool,

I will try that today with 12mb overdump and the Ultra program. I think I have the good rom but we will see

Thanks

well i've tried with winzip and still not recognising zipped roms. looks like i may have to make 2 dvdrs with unzipped roms. sucks

wait
just refresh rom list!!!!!!
Bottom right corner!

it doesn't take more memory cuz it just unzips em to x,y,z drives
not sure why 2 games didn't show when zipped, 1 was bomberman64

i'm using the refresh thingy it's just they don't show up burnt it unzipped roms now anyway