What is an .rar file?

**Bulldog** · September 7th, 2002, 20:11

what the heck is .rar file? I downloaded MK Mythologies and it comes out as an .rar file and i cant play it using Project 64. What is the problem?

**Trotterwatch** · September 7th, 2002, 20:32

A .rar file is something associated with Winrar - download it from here: http://www.rarlab.com/

**iq_132** · September 7th, 2002, 20:44

or try http://www.ultimatezip.com/ it's freeware, not shareware like winrar.

**Bulldog** · September 7th, 2002, 20:44

Thanks Trotterwatch.

Since i am not at all familiar with this program, how do i use to make MK Mythologies playable on PJ 64?

**Trotterwatch** · September 7th, 2002, 21:01

Just install it, then double click the .rar file - it will then extract.

**Trotterwatch** · September 7th, 2002, 21:03

iq_132, does Ultimatezip unzip files that have been compressed using the latest Winrar? I have powerarchiver which can extract .rar files - but the version I have doesn't work properly with anything rar'ed with the latest Winrar.

**DarkKnight38** · September 7th, 2002, 22:18

Originally posted by Bulldog
Thanks Trotterwatch.

Since i am not at all familiar with this program, how do i use to make MK Mythologies playable on PJ 64?

Rar files are a lot like zip files, they both are compressed archives. Except most emulators can't read games inside of rar files, so you'll have to extract the game from the rar file using winrar, like it was previously stated by trotterwatch. After that, you should have a n64 rom readable by project 64.

**ShadowFX** · September 7th, 2002, 22:37

But some emulators do read .zip files these days, like ZSNES... a SNES emulator.

**DarkKnight38** · September 7th, 2002, 22:41

PJ64 can read zips as well

**ShadowFX** · September 7th, 2002, 22:45

Oh, well thank you for telling me

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