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Using roms on a mac

Discussion in 'Technical Help' started by AlexTp, Jan 14, 2009.

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  1. AlexTp

    AlexTp New Member

    Im just wondering if Ill need to find specific roms that will work on a mac, or if roms are universal along as I get an emulator that works with one, Im currently trying to use some roms from tis site with VisualBoy Advance and Im having no luck with it.
     
    AlexTp, Jan 14, 2009
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  2. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Yes, they will always work, as long as you get the emulator that works on it. What ROMs are you wanting to emulate? Do you have 1.7 Mac version of VBA?
     
    anandjones, Jan 14, 2009
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  3. AlexTp

    AlexTp New Member

    Yes im running VBA 1.7.4, and using a version of super mario world from this site, Im also not possitive if Im acualy using the roms correctly
    It just says that the rom is an unknown file type when I try to use it.
     
    AlexTp, Jan 21, 2009
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  4. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    See this: https://www.romulation.org/forum/index.php/topic,3880.0.html
     
    Seph, Jan 21, 2009
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  5. AlexTp

    AlexTp New Member

    Dosn't Mac OS extract files prior to the download, everything else Ive gotten has worked that way
     
    AlexTp, Jan 21, 2009
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  6. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    No, and it cannot extract files before it has downloaded them because it doesn't have the files. Mac OS may be able to natively open zip files (another type of compressed archive, Windows XP upwards can natively extract them), however our roms are in .rar files, which are compressed using a different algorithm and cannot natively be opened by any OS that I know of.
     
    Loonylion, Jan 21, 2009
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  7. AlexTp

    AlexTp New Member

    oh, ok, sorry, I ment to say after, not priror, but you awnsered my question anyway,thank you.
     
    AlexTp, Jan 21, 2009
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  8. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    You can try Stuffit if you want.
     
    anandjones, Jan 22, 2009
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