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ridley
05-25-2006, 04:29 PM
well how???
Kurt
05-25-2006, 04:31 PM
I'm not quite sure what you mean here.
Fierce Deity
05-25-2006, 06:08 PM
As far as I know, Visualboy can only play .GBA files. Which would mean the .GBA file would be inside the .RAR. So, look on google or download.com for a program called WinRAR. Use that to unzip the .RAR file, and put the .GBA file in your ROMs section. Then with Visualboy, open up the .GBA file.
Kurt
05-25-2006, 06:27 PM
Why use WinRar when your computer comes with WinZip? It's a bit more frustrating, and maybe a little worse, but it saves you a download, I think.

Anyway, I understand what you mean now. Some GBA roms are inside the .rar/.zip file, and can't be acessed unless the file is unzipped, and some are acessible through WinRar or WinZip. That usually depends on what site you're on.

Anyway, Fierce Deity was completely right. Disregard me if you like ;)
Fierce Deity
05-25-2006, 06:36 PM
Your computer almost never comes with WinZip. XP, however, comes with a microsoft version of it. That, however, will not get you into RAR files, only ZIP files.
Kurt
05-25-2006, 06:45 PM
Your computer almost never comes with WinZip. XP, however, comes with a microsoft version of it. That, however, will not get you into RAR files, only ZIP files.
I either compressed the files into a new zip or used the Microsoft program to change the filetype. I never got WinRAR until much later after I got into emulation and it helped things considerably. ;) Now, I don't even remember how to get it out using WinZip, so I'm pretty much limited to WinRAR.
dtfreak05
05-26-2006, 01:32 PM
i always use winrar for zip files as well as rar files, its a much better program. but sometimes u can access roms still in rar or zip format
Fierce Deity
05-26-2006, 01:38 PM
i always use winrar for zip files as well as rar files, its a much better program. but sometimes u can access roms still in rar or zip format
That depends upon the individual emulator....
dtfreak05
05-27-2006, 01:21 AM
yeah, but its always worth a shot if you're trying to conserve space (like me and my 8 GB remaining out of 55, i really need an external hdd lol)