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I just shake my head everytime I see these kinds of compilations released. I've been playing these games for years, through emulation. These bundles advertise being able to use filters for 'authenticity' gameplay, online playability and such. Emulators can and have long done these things too.
But, there are people out there, who'll wait for years on end for these compilations to be made and some shamelessly buy them. When you can cut all of that down by spending less than 2 minutes grabbing a ROM and grabbing an emulator before you're well on your way to revisit your old favorites.
I'm fine with people paying for the Just-Works(TM).
I've just ventured into DosBox stuff, starting with pre installed game folders (best case scenario). Just mount the .7z into dosbox and... Wait, unarchive it, make it a .zip and... Wait, just unzip it and remake the folder structure to match the .cfg, rezip and... Wait, unzip and re-write some of the setting in the .cfg, re-zip and... Wait, mouse support on a touch screen, why is the keyboard unresponsive?
Tinkering is fun, but I just wanted to play fallout 1. Romm just added dos support. I was elated. But all my games are .7z. and the 2 I tried (FO1 and a 1-0 soccer, it was first on the list) both didn't fire up, fallout 1 required tinkering to fire up in a DosBox instance. A fun project, I wasn't gaming though.
Oh, had no idea romm added support for dosbox, that's awesome. Half tempted to dump the ExoDOS collection into it to stress test it.
I can't vouch for it. But my understanding is that DOS is it's own wild west of Case By Case Basis. My understanding is that if DosBox pure would be happy with the .zip you give it, Romm may or may not be. If DosBox won't fire it up with no tinkering god help you.
I got fallout to run in a desktop instance, but it still didn't run on Romm. Gpt suspects it's the nested folder structure
/INTRPLAY/FALLOUT/[game stuff here including data folders]Gpt is wrong more than it's right though.