Stuck on Extracting files on the Nvidia Shield

[detzabel]

Hello, 

I'm having an issue when trying to load Gamecube ROMs that are 7zipped. When I attempt to launch the game it just gets stuck on "Extracting files" and then just returns back to the home screen after a while. 

The Roms are located on Network mounted drive (SMB) and running on the Nvidia Shield (2019)

Thanks

[Jason Carr]

3 hours ago, detzabel said:

Hello, 

I'm having an issue when trying to load Gamecube ROMs that are 7zipped. When I attempt to launch the game it just gets stuck on "Extracting files" and then just returns back to the home screen after a while. 

The Roms are located on Network mounted drive (SMB) and running on the Nvidia Shield (2019)

Thanks

There is unfortunately a known issue with extracting files that are too large, especially on lower-end devices like the Shield. Unfortunately ROMs for disc-based systems will need to be uncompressed at this point. There are other options as well, though, like using CHD files, PBP files (PSP), or WBFS files (which should work well for GameCube). Those types of files are compressed, but don't have to be decompressed before launching them. It can admittedly be tricky to convert your ROMs to those formats though.

[C-Beats]

GameCube should be either in CHD or RVZ format. These formats are already compressed and can be read directly from the Dolphin emulator so you gain the space savings without the unarchive overhead something like .zip or .7z have.

[detzabel]

46 minutes ago, C-Beats said:

GameCube should be either in CHD or RVZ format. These formats are already compressed and can be read directly from the Dolphin emulator so you gain the space savings without the unarchive overhead something like .zip or .7z have.

 

50 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:

There is unfortunately a known issue with extracting files that are too large, especially on lower-end devices like the Shield. Unfortunately ROMs for disc-based systems will need to be uncompressed at this point. There are other options as well, though, like using CHD files, PBP files (PSP), or WBFS files (which should work well for GameCube). Those types of files are compressed, but don't have to be decompressed before launching them. It can admittedly be tricky to convert your ROMs to those formats though.

 

Thanks for the info, I guess I'll be converting my collection to CHD.

[Jason Carr]

5 minutes ago, detzabel said:

Thanks for the info, I guess I'll be converting my collection to CHD.

Do make sure that Dolphin on Android supports CHD. Might be worth testing one file before converting your entire set. (Just because I've been bit by that issue before on other platforms.)