2018-09-12, 16:55
(2018-09-12, 16:42)MrTarantula Wrote: Ideally, Kodi should be able to play whatever is thrown at it, be it image, video, audio, or ROM. Zipping may be a best practice, but the reality is that many people have unzipped ROMs, or a mixture of zipped and unzipped. That's what makes it the de facto standard. If ROM managers support unzipped then RP should as well.
As you say. I invite you to go to Pleasuredome or ROMShepherd and I will give you 10 yen for every uncompressed ROM you find.
ROM managers do not support zipped ROMs per se, but rather because most emulators require them! I can point you to a thread in Banniser forum where MAME devs strongly encourage to used zipped ROMs only.
(2018-09-12, 16:42)MrTarantula Wrote: As for compressing like a ROM manager, I would bet that eventually there will be an addon for that purpose. I may even give it a shot when I have some time to get familiar with python.
Once Leia is out I will test RP thoroughly and implement ROM decompression on the fly, as IARL does now.