This is a little obscure, perhaps, but I use a number of datfiles for GBA (one rom per set), and some overlap. I'd like to make all the dats complete without duplicating the files on disk, and this is possible as I store my files on a *nix server machine which can have the same file existing in multiple places using hardlinks. So, I can hardlink the roms into multiple romdirs, and run a different dat on each romdir, and it will rename them, delete them, etc as appropriate for that dat. This only works if I don't compress them, though, because once something starts editing the zipfile content to rename the actual rom, that changes all the copies.

Thus, what I'd like is a way to have the scanner rename the sets (the zipfiles) but leave the roms alone (i.e. not change the contents of the zipfiles). Is this at all feasible?