Looking for a M1 frontend

[Lord Dalek]

Is there a frontend for this that supports .7z files? BridgeM1 sadly doesn't and it seems rather tedious to have to unzip all my roms (I have a full set) to acomodate it.

[Magma MK-II]

If your roms are in .zip format, then you shouldn't have to unzip anything.

[Lord Dalek]

Sept 3, 2014 17:08:07 GMT -5 Magma MK-II said:

If your roms are in .zip format, then you shouldn't have to unzip anything.

They aren't. They're in 7z format.

[Magma MK-II]

Then something is wrong, since MAME, and by extension M1, only read zipped roms. Try looking for another fullset.

[Weasel]

The MAME devs' official stance, according to the MAME FAQ:

Why doesn't MAME support RAR/xxxx compression?

ZIP is extremely well-supported through a free, cross-platform library, and has been a standard for at well over a decade and is still the suggested and preferred method of storage for all things MAME deals with.

MAME does now support internally 7-zip (7z) archives for holding data (alongside ZIP) as of MAME 0.145u1. It had matured to the point where it was thought to be a more of a potential plus to the project rather than a hinderance, in particular usage for large CD-Based titles (CHD's) used in MAME and MESS.

RAR (.rar) is still a unique compression algorithm which, unfortunately, is proprietary. Given MAME's licensing and its source available status, for this reason, you will never see RAR support in MAME. At this moment the choices of .ZIP or .7z archives should cover everyone compression needs.

What I imagine the problem is, though, is that M1 hasn't been updated in a really long time; potentially long enough that 7-zip support was never added.

[Magma MK-II]

Yeah, last version of M1 was released in 2008.