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Seems reasonable. I'll see what I can do.
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Ah, loading an individual file inside a 7-zip solid archive of similar files. Fun.
Just a fair word of warning ... when I tried this, loading a single game from "Super Mario World.7z" would consume nearly 2GiB of memory.
GBA games are even larger, but I don't think there's anything in the world quite like the SMW hacking community, so you'll probably be able to get away with a lot less. But all the same, you may want to be careful on RAM allocation boundaries on the more limited systems you support (eg 3DS, assuming you have a file loader there.) You should prepare for the worst case that you'll need RAM equal to the size of the entire uncompressed 7-zip archive to load a game from it.
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I am fortunately not using libarchive, which when used wrong would lead to this sort of thing. Unfortunately, since I'm not using libarchive, I can't actually do 7z loading on the 3DS. I've had trouble getting it working at all, and libzip seems kind of unhappy on the 3DS, which is holding up that feature.
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I finally added it. It'll be in the next nightly, and consequently, the next stable release.