Raccoon Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 I tried to use MESS as Atari 2600 emulator, all roms are 7z When I tried to start a game a window flashed briefly and all I had time to see was something like "Fatal error" and the window disappered again. Then I extracted all romfiles and could start the games with MESS from Hyperspin. Does this mean I don´t have 7z installed correctly? My MAME roms are in zip archives and ScummVM are 7z, MAME works but not ScummVM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raccoon Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 A little more searching lead me to this thread and now ScummVM works! http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?36907-How-do-you-enable-7z-support-for-ScummVM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raccoon Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 Next system, same problem. Atari 5200 doesn´t work in 7z format, I haven´t checked if it works decompressed yet. This is a bit frustrating as it takes more space uncompressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raccoon Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 Yes I do and now I have tried A 5200 with uncompressed roms but that didn´t do any difference. From HLHQ I can just see MESS start to load, but then close down immediately. Maybe I should try another emulator but it would be nice if MESS could run as many systems as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phulshof Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 How do you start the game? I make use of the software lists by starting the game by name rather than by ROM: mess a2600 -cart amidar Works like a charm, and my ROMs are in merged 7z format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raccoon Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 How do you start the game? I make use of the software lists by starting the game by name rather than by ROM:mess a2600 -cart amidar Works like a charm, and my ROMs are in merged 7z format. I let Hyperspin/Hyperlaunch take care of that, I´ve never started any games manually. When I´m about to install a new system I first put roms and xml files in apropriate folders, then I get the videos and wheels in their places. Next step is to start Hyperspin to see that all works. And last but not least i start HLHQ and set up emulator and paths, audit games and tries to start a few. Sometimes it works but most of the time it gives me a few more gray hairs It takes some time to figure out what´s wrong, searching forums for information or guides is not easy, you get so much more results than you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleasby Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 you need to enable 7z on HLHQ, settings, main settings, 7z, enabled option. If you have the last HL version, and enable 7z for the systems that you want to use the compressed roms, everything should work fine. Post a troubleshooting log and we will have more info to see if anything strange happens in your setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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