Error on Pokemon Snap when Goodmerging No-Intro N64

[talbin]

Hi all,

So my goodmerging on the No-Intro N64 set chugs right along until it gets to Pokemon Snap and bombs out with the following:

Pokemon Snap
Decompressing… Done.
7/13/2010 6:49:36 PM - 150,994,944 bytes in 9 files compressed to…

Error: External (Command line -- D:\GoodMerge\7za.exe a -bd -t7z -ms -mmt -m0fb=128 -mx=9 -m0d=144m -w"D:\GoodMerge" "E:\n64new\Pokemon Snap.7z" @"D:\GoodMerge\~gmlst~")

7-Zip (A) 4.65 Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-02-03
Scanning

Creating archive E:\n64new\Pokemon Snap.7z

System error:
The parameter is incorrect.

I have all of the roms verified with the latest No-Intro .dat, created the have list with clrmame, added the new settings and languages files, and have tried a couple different versions of 7za.exe. Any ideas?

Windows 7 x64
Core i7
4GB RAM

[talbin]

I just tried doing the GBA set and it bombs out on a game after about 10 minutes as well. The things that I noticed with the GBA game the Pokemon is that they both have 9 or more clones. Is there some kind of compression issue when a game has too many clones?

[kazumi213]

Please try passing the commands to the GUI version (installed 7z.exe). IIRC you can't use more than 128 MB dictionary with command line version (neither with windows 32-bit).

Limitation appears for certain large families bacause it's when specified full dictionary size is actually used.

[talbin]

I pointed it to 7z.exe and now I get the following:

Chameleon Twist
Decompressing… Done.


Error: No ROMs found matching "Chameleon Twist (Europe).*"

It looks like it can't find the roms after extracting them. However, you are right on point with the dictionary size. I put it down to 128MB and now it works. I can live with the slightly less compression ratio. Thanks!

[kazumi213]

I'm not sure what's the new problem. A quick workaround would be to start from already uncompressed set (be sure to test with the family giving the error before uncompressing the whole set).

[DeathEvil]

I pointed it to 7z.exe and now I get the following:

Chameleon Twist
Decompressing… Done.


Error: No ROMs found matching "Chameleon Twist (Europe).*"

It looks like it can't find the roms after extracting them. However, you are right on point with the dictionary size. I put it down to 128MB and now it works. I can live with the slightly less compression ratio. Thanks!

had the same issue, fix is super easy - install 7zip x64, then go to the 7zip directory (program files not program files x86) and rename 7z.exe to 7za.exe. Now in goodmerge point to 7za.exe. PROBLEM SOLVED:)