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<blockquote data-quote="BadMrFrosty" data-source="post: 492599" data-attributes="member: 96262">1. Goodmerge supportMost of my ROM sets have been <a href="http://goodmerge.sourceforge.net/Statistics.php" target="_blank">GoodMerged</a> which not only saves a load of disk space (e.g. N64 set is about 25 gigs zipped, vs about 5 gigs goodmerged in 7zip format) but also nicely groups together all of the different versions of the same game. This is all great but it means that actually using the games with myEmulators was a pain as I had to extract the right version of the game I wanted to play and store it separately.So I have patched myEmulators to support multiple ROMs 7zipped in the same archive. In the emulator config I have added several new options:<img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=44444&amp;d=1249302779" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />So when Goodmerge support is enabled, your ROM directory should contain your 7zipped (or zipped) goodmerge set. You can then specify your preference of which ROM from the archive should be executed, I have it set up to select English versions and the temp folder that the ROM should be extracted to. Then when you choose to play a game via myEmulators, it will search the archive for the ROM that best matches your preferences, extract it and pass it to the emulator. If no ROM matches your preferences, it will load the 1st one it finds in the archive.This functionality should be finished soon, if anyone else thinks this might be useful I will release it.2. Use emulator image when no game image present (suggested by tillz0r)I have made a minor change that will user the emulator thumbnail for all games that dont have their own image:<img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=44460&amp;stc=1&amp;d=1249310203" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="BadMrFrosty, post: 492599, member: 96262"] 1. Goodmerge support Most of my ROM sets have been [url=http://goodmerge.sourceforge.net/Statistics.php]GoodMerged[/url] which not only saves a load of disk space (e.g. N64 set is about 25 gigs zipped, vs about 5 gigs goodmerged in 7zip format) but also nicely groups together all of the different versions of the same game. This is all great but it means that actually using the games with myEmulators was a pain as I had to extract the right version of the game I wanted to play and store it separately. So I have patched myEmulators to support multiple ROMs 7zipped in the same archive. In the emulator config I have added several new options: [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=44444&d=1249302779[/IMG] So when Goodmerge support is enabled, your ROM directory should contain your 7zipped (or zipped) goodmerge set. You can then specify your preference of which ROM from the archive should be executed, I have it set up to select English versions and the temp folder that the ROM should be extracted to. Then when you choose to play a game via myEmulators, it will search the archive for the ROM that best matches your preferences, extract it and pass it to the emulator. If no ROM matches your preferences, it will load the 1st one it finds in the archive. This functionality should be finished soon, if anyone else thinks this might be useful I will release it. 2. Use emulator image when no game image present (suggested by tillz0r) I have made a minor change that will user the emulator thumbnail for all games that dont have their own image: [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=44460&stc=1&d=1249310203[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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