Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:16 am Post subject: Zipped roms
I was just wondering if it is possible to play roms the are zipped using an emulator.I tried one game but when i selected it, it turned black like it was going to load it and then it went back to the rom select screen.
dartht33bagger Moderator
Joined: Apr 17, 2007 Posts: 5408 Location: Oregon, USA
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:57 am Post subject:
Some of the emulators will run zipped roms and some won't. You just have to read the documentation of each emulator or just try to see if they will work. _________________
deltaarmstrong2000 Moderator
Joined: Oct 04, 2005 Posts: 517 Location: OH Canada
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:55 am Post subject:
Make sure it is zipped, not a rar file, or 7zip. I know a lot of the roms are missing some important files to work almost independently. See if you can find that same rom elsewhere and see if there any extra files to go with it. Unless it is with all the roms for that emulator.
Osksoldier07 Xbox-HQ Member
Joined: Apr 21, 2009 Posts: 92 Location: USA
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:45 pm Post subject:
so it has to be zip right?
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject:
Yeah bro, zip not rar.
forahobby Administrator
Joined: May 22, 2003 Posts: 23945 Location: NSW, Australia
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:14 am Post subject:
deltaarmstrong2000 wrote:
Make sure it is zipped, not a rar file, or 7zip. I know a lot of the roms are missing some important files to work almost independently. See if you can find that same rom elsewhere and see if there any extra files to go with it. Unless it is with all the roms for that emulator.
exactly, 7zip/rar is not the same as zip..
Most emulators support .zip roms.
I just zipped my gba and nes roms and tried them out and they work fine.I was wondering if it is possible to zip ps1 isos.I tried to zip them like i did my other roms but the screen would turn black and stay that way.Please help.Thank you.
JSP62 Xbox-HQ Experienced
Joined: Nov 29, 2006 Posts: 166 Location: Boston, MA
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:41 am Post subject:
Osksoldier07 wrote:
I just zipped my gba and nes roms and tried them out and they work fine.I was wondering if it is possible to zip ps1 isos.I tried to zip them like i did my other roms but the screen would turn black and stay that way.Please help.Thank you.
Most emulators will work in .zip state. It would help if you were specific as to the emulator you want to know about.
To answer your question regarding PS1 and .iso files, I do not believe you can get the psxbox emulator to recognize .zip. It has to be in .iso format. I have PS1 backups as such. I think psxbox needs to have .cue, .iso and .img filetypes in order to work. Can someone confirm this, its been awhile for me? _________________ With knowledge, comes great power.
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Osksoldier07 Xbox-HQ Member
Xbox Version: 1.0 Modded: X3
Joined: Apr 21, 2009 Posts: 92 Location: USA
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:51 pm Post subject:
I was reading the pcsxbox 20.0 and it said that it supported games compressed in gzip format.
JSP62 Xbox-HQ Experienced
Joined: Nov 29, 2006 Posts: 166 Location: Boston, MA
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:57 pm Post subject:
Osksoldier07 wrote:
I was reading the pcsxbox 20.0 and it said that it supported games compressed in gzip format.
If the 'latest-n-greatest' release can in fact read .zip, then I'll be updated my emulator. I'm actually surprised developers are still releasing updated versions for XBOX1.
I believe I have PSXBOX ver 1.9. Is it really at 20.0 or was that a misprint? _________________ With knowledge, comes great power.
With power, comes great responsibility.
With responsibility, comes great wisdom.
Osksoldier07 Xbox-HQ Member
Xbox Version: 1.0 Modded: X3
Joined: Apr 21, 2009 Posts: 92 Location: USA
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:03 pm Post subject:
yes there is 20.0. i used to have 19 but i switched to 20.And it's not zip it says something about gzip.
Edit:I just figured out that the ps1 games need to be in BIN/CUE format and zipped with gzip.Is there any way to change img games to BIN/CUE?
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:09 am Post subject:
Yeah bro there are a few free APPs out there that will do img to bin or cue, just google them and pick.
Osksoldier07 Xbox-HQ Member
Xbox Version: 1.0 Modded: X3
Joined: Apr 21, 2009 Posts: 92 Location: USA
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject:
This is what it says on readme.
This version does not support real CDs. There are a different set of technical
hurdles involved with PSX cds than with SegaCD and PCE CD/SCD. I was finally
able to get the XBox to read XA sectors, but it reads them much too slowly
for anyone to want to play games using it. (Reads about 2.5KB per second)
For now, create BIN/CUE's of your PSX games and either copy them to your HD or
burn them to DVDR/CDRW. Your BIN and CUE files should have the same names:
For example:
GAMENAME.BIN
GAMENAME.CUE
is a valid combination and
GAMENAME01.BIN
GAMENAME.CUE
is not.
Furthermore, if you use GZIP to compress your BIN image, you will end up with
a filename like
GAMENAME.BIN.GZ
This means that you need to rename your CUE file to be:
GAMENAME.BIN.CUE
or you could rename the GZ file so that the two files are:
A note about GZIP'ing your images. Yes, they will work, but you will suffer
a performance hit because there's no "true" direct access to any position in
the file. Let's say the game is reading sectors 1 to 100 - it'll read them
lickity-split, but then when it requests, say, sector 30000 is has to scan through
and do some processing on sectors 100 to 30000 before it can read the data instead
of just jumping directly to that spot and reading. This is the nature of compression.
No, cacheing of data does not help in this case. So, in a nutshell, compression
is supported, but I advise against it unless you run from the HD and have replaced
the standard XBox HD with a faster one.
You can make an XBox ISO with a BIN/CUE image on it, burn it to a disc, run PCSXBox
from the HD, then press the RTHUMB button to get a listing of files on the disc.
This is to make upgrading easier for those who prefer to keep BIN/CUE images
on disc instead of on the HD.
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