DraStic

I was just wondering when drastic opens a .zip does it unzip it in a temp folder and delete it after or does it save the unzipped rom in RAM?

The latter, which seems to be a problem if people don't have enough memory. Probably something we have to think up alternatives for.

Exophase wrote:The latter, which seems to be a problem if people don't have enough memory. Probably something we have to think up alternatives for.

yea some of the roms are >200MB

the_cake_is_a_lie wrote:I was just wondering when drastic opens a .zip does it unzip it in a temp folder and delete it after or does it save the unzipped rom in RAM?

Are you tight on memory and can't unzip the files prior to emulating? If you unzip them with winrar or root Explorer or something it works smoother

HugMeTender wrote:

the_cake_is_a_lie wrote:I was just wondering when drastic opens a .zip does it unzip it in a temp folder and delete it after or does it save the unzipped rom in RAM?

Are you tight on memory and can't unzip the files prior to emulating? If you unzip them with winrar or root Explorer or something it works smoother

na I have 1GB of ram i was just wondering how it worked

Well, for what it is worth, I tried to zip some of my files using es file explorer and DraStic cannot read them while I downloaded same roms already zipped and it worked fine. Seems that Drastic is a bit choosy or es has crap zipping algorithm

in the latest update drastic unzips to sd (but i prefer to ram as my sd is starting to run out but my ram is free, good thing its optional)

I run all mine unzipped...the perk of having a 32gb microSD card i suppose lol.