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KingX

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From: CA

Registered: 2010-03-24

Posts: 324

[SOLVED] sdlmame won't recognize 7-zip files

Hi,

I am trying to use sdlmame to play files compressed with 7-zip. But when I run sdlmame it reports that no games were found (mame.ini is pointing to the correct directory). I checked on mamedev and 7-zip archives are supported since MAME 0.145u1.

I have sdlmame 0.156.u0-1 installed. I am hoping someone can point out what I need to do for sdlmame to recognize 7-zip files. If I need to re-compile it and with what config? Thanks for any pointers!

Edit [Solved]: The issue was the directory name contained a space, I created a symlink to point to the game directory and specified the symlink in the mame.ini file. Sdlmame instantly recognized all the game files!

Last edited by KingX (2014-12-22 05:31:59)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] sdlmame won't recognize 7-zip files

What's the output of 'file /path/to/that/compressed/file'? 'file' had some issues recently.
Can you recompress these files with some other tool? Can you use 'unzip' to unpack them or does it fail too?

KingX

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From: CA

Registered: 2010-03-24

Posts: 324

Re: [SOLVED] sdlmame won't recognize 7-zip files

[myth@mythbox ~]$ file 19xx.7z
19xx.7z: 7-zip archive data, version 0.3

The files work fine in windows with MAME. I can extract the archive as well without issue. One thing I haven't tried is extracting and re-creating the archive with 7-zip, I wanted to see if I missed a simple step before carrying that out.