Add zip Support

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Please add ZIP support.

In Beta 1.1 Zip Files can't be loaded. But Wii Roms are quite big, so zip 
support would be great.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by talant...@gmail.com on 11 Aug 2010 at 10:47

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I agree, zip/7z support would be excellent.  Although, I am not sure if it 
would be feasible b/c it appears that Wii64 loads the game into the Wii memory.

Original comment by seliva...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2010 at 4:59

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lol. Doesn't every emulator load the rom into memory?

Would be hard to get much emulation done if there was no code for the emulator 
to execute...

And my guess is that support for compressed archives is done by extracting rom 
and reading it to memory.

Original comment by svi...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2010 at 9:34

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Sorry....that was an incoherent thought of mine.  I was thinking more that the 
Wii has a limited amount of memory and Wii64 only loads part of the rom image 
into memory for the larger games....if there is not enough memory to load a 
full rom image into memory in the first place, there probably wouldn't be 
enough memory to unzip it.  Unless, it unzips it to the SD card....that is a 
possibility, but you would have to ensure that there was enough room on the SD 
card.

Original comment by seliva...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2010 at 12:47

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I don't know if this is possible on the Wii since the Rom Files are quite big. 
It was just a suggestion. 

It'd be a nice feature though

Original comment by talant...@gmail.com on 18 Aug 2010 at 7:18

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If the Wii memory settings allow it, I vote for this nice feature too! ;)

Original comment by francisc...@gmail.com on 28 Aug 2010 at 3:57

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Not going to happen. Wii64 uses almost every bit of memory available to the 
Wii.. and as a result, the ROM is held in a cache. If we were to implement ZIP 
support, it would be terribly slow when we need to go back to the disk to 
return new uncompressed data.

Original comment by emuki...@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2010 at 6:51

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But doesn't wii neogeo emulateur includes zip support with the same problem of 
big sized roms ?

Original comment by redisdw...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2010 at 2:08