> I was wondering if there was any way to point ClrMamePro at multiple source
> directories containing zipped ROMS and when given the choice between several
> zipped archives, have it select the smallest (best compressed) zip?
>
> How about having it "multiplex" the existing zip files a la ZipMax without
> actually re-compressing anything?
>
> The thought is that someone out there might have a more compressed archive (or
> file within an archive) than I do and I'd rather not have to compare them one by
> one side by side to figure out which is smallest.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like
> prunes than rhubarb does
>


People should use the rebuilder with no-recompress (so it's fast) and use zipmax afterwards. Currently there is no plan to add your optimization idea to ClrMamePro.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro