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[dudle]

I known that the intended usage of clrmamepro is to maintain a collection of roms/isos, but it would be great if support to the mentioned file formats could also be added, at least as a hidden feature, for those like me that intends to sort out comics collections.

cbr is rar renamed, cbz is zip renamed, cb7 is 7z renamed and cbt is tar renamed, so implementing it would be very easy 

[Roman]

never heard of them or saw them. where is the sense of using renamed archive types instead of the real ones?

[dudle]

never heard of them or saw them. where is the sense of using renamed archive types instead of the real ones?

You can keep 7z as default software for double-click on rar/zip/7z and add a full screen image viewer such as CDisplay for default double-click on cbr/cbz/cbt

Very odd in fact, but this is the default behavior on this kind of file sharing. Some users are very lazy to renaming from cbr to rar to audit a file and back to cbr to display on their favorite software, broking any attempt to create a project to sort out downloaded comics from many sources

[Zandro]

Extensions are definitely arbitrary; the best way to be sure what type a file is would be to read its header, but doing that check on every file is a huge slowdown/time waster.  Referencing a list of supported extensions/type correlation is faster, and is with the assumption that a collector can provide files with an extension correctly identifying the file type.

Lazy indeed.. just do this in command prompt (shift+right-click in directory -> Open command window here): ren *.cbz *.zip ...then after scanning, do this: ren *.zip *.cbz

I am more inclined to ask for read support of gz, tar, lzh/lha archive types (maybe pipe it through 7zip)...

[dudle]

Why my last reply got deleted?

[Zandro]

Wasn't me Oo
I am not against this request. It goes to show there is interest and use of CMPro beyond the emu community.

[Roman]

Cmpro is used beyond the emulation community for ages...

It's not on cmpro's schedule list to support renamed standard archive names.

Not to mention that I can influence the handling in 3rd party code (unrar.dll, 7z sdk or ziparchive library....which may or may not want archive extensions).

[Depressor]

Too sad, that clrmamepro don't support *.cbr or *.cbz extensions. Some people (like me)) use this extensions for collections of game manuals for example. Advice with mass renaming is good, but every time when you make changes in collection you need to do this operation... It takes much time.

P.S. I have about three or five thousand manuals. I scanned or downloaded most of them page by page and combined in archives with cbr extensions - yes, i don't like pdf & i like watching my manuals with another programs (like sumatra or comical). Now i think about making dat files for all my collection, but there are some trouble with this - i can make dat file, but after New Scan all my files tagged as missing. So, i one of those who wait for support of these extensions)

[Roman]

sorry but it wont be supported