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GameEx supports .7z and .zip (not .rar). Be sure that your emulator also supports these formats.

i am not an expert, but i saw a site - i think it was coolroms? - and they were using a free program called ECM in their zips which seemed to take a 600M iso down to like 520? ive got alot of space so i used UNECM to get the isos back. i imagine you could use gameex's LaunchBefore and LaunchAfter to compress and uncompress on the fly? btw these playstation isos were ecmed inside a zip...

I'll mention it to Tom and the team will figure out a solution for this new method.

Yeah unless you're using software lists as Freq pointed to. The DB doesn't have entries for the MAME type XML based naming system it uses. They'd need to be added somehow for the DB to pick em up.

As mentioned by Adultery, the solution would be to use a map file for fixing the list name. However also as metioned, it won't help with arwork for these systems since we nor Emumovies currently support this format. There will have to be some work put into this for this to work. Something we'll get together and figure out. For the time being, I suggest using a map file till then.

GameEx should be pulling from the database for each (i.e. [Console] Atari 2600.mdb, etc.) and so long as the ROM name matches the name in the name field of the database and the image name is in agreement, then there shouldn't be a problem unless I am missing something. I use the Emumovie sets without a problem.

Are you able to get the full game title in the GameEx romlist and can you associate artwork to each ROM?

The Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800 roms are all zipped. I have no problem getting the roms to run in GameEx. Its just that on the GameEx romlist, the name of the game is ddragonu, for example, when it should be Double Dragon. I changed the name of the rom to DoubleDragon.zip, but then it will no longer be recognized in MESS. The problem is that I cannot get any artwork associated to the file name ddragonu.zip. I know MAME has a similar naming convention but somehow it is displayed with the full title name in GameEx. Is there anyway we can do that for MESS?

According to that documentation you dont need to do it ghat way and cant if you want to use emumovies sets. You can fix the naming with a map file though that won't help with artwork. Or you can fix your command line and use the old method. Sorry.

To be honest I hardly use mess for anything and it's a few versions old. You may be right but I can't verify it. If its true that sucks!

I use mess for over 100 systems thru Gameex,including 2600,5200,& 7800. I run all the roms thru Clrmame pro for renaming. All run fine with the right names. Check your mess setup ans see if they run outside of Gameex with the right name.

Please give an example! What are your renaming the file to? What type of file is it? What is the command-line you're using?

hello, thanks for your replies. It appears that once we change the file name of a rom, MESS no longer recognizes it....

Have a look here! I'm assuming this is what the OP is referring to.

MESS doesn't have its own naming convention for emus as far as I know. For the database or emumovies to pick up your roms they need to be renamed using a rom scanner against a major set dat like GoodName. If games aren't working regardless of file name you have something wrong in the setup for that emulator.