diff --git a/360/main.c b/360/main.c
index c8e549986c..23d466fc29 100644
--- a/360/main.c
+++ b/360/main.c
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ static void set_default_settings (void)
 	g_console.custom_viewport_height = 0;
 	g_console.custom_viewport_x = 0;
 	g_console.custom_viewport_y = 0;
+	g_console.extract_zip_files_enable = can_extract_zip_files();
 
 	//g_extern
 	g_extern.state_slot = 0;
diff --git a/360/menu.cpp b/360/menu.cpp
index 389dac5c76..b6e47f3510 100644
--- a/360/menu.cpp
+++ b/360/menu.cpp
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ HRESULT CSSNESFileBrowser::OnNotifyPress( HXUIOBJ hObjPressed, BOOL& bHandled )
 		{
 			memset(strbuffer, 0, sizeof(strbuffer));
 			wcstombs(strbuffer, (const wchar_t *)m_romlist.GetText(index), sizeof(strbuffer));
-			if(strstr(strbuffer, ".zip") || strstr(strbuffer, ".ZIP"))
+			if((strstr(strbuffer, ".zip") || strstr(strbuffer, ".ZIP")) && g_console.extract_zip_files_enable)
 			{
 				char path_tmp[1024];
 				sprintf(path_tmp, "%s\\%s", FILEBROWSER_GET_CURRENT_DIRECTORY_NAME(browser), strbuffer);
diff --git a/console/console_ext.c b/console/console_ext.c
index f8be615c33..3d7a4a5605 100644
--- a/console/console_ext.c
+++ b/console/console_ext.c
@@ -109,6 +109,21 @@ void ssnes_console_set_default_keybind_names_for_emulator(void)
 
 #ifdef HAVE_ZLIB
 
+/* if 0, the emulator core uses zlib internally and therefore we can't extract zip files to the cache partitions. If 1, zip files can be extracted to the cache partitions */
+
+int can_extract_zip_files(void)
+{
+	bool retval = 1;
+
+	const char *id = snes_library_id();
+
+	// FBA Next
+	if (strstr(id, "FBA"))
+		retval =  0;
+
+	return retval;
+}
+
 static int ssnes_extract_currentfile_in_zip(unzFile uf)
 {
    char filename_inzip[PATH_MAX];
diff --git a/console/console_ext.h b/console/console_ext.h
index 3b87a42836..db91077aaf 100644
--- a/console/console_ext.h
+++ b/console/console_ext.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ void ssnes_console_name_from_id(char *name, size_t size);
 void ssnes_console_set_default_keybind_names_for_emulator(void);
 
 #ifdef HAVE_ZLIB
+int can_extract_zip_files(void);
 int ssnes_extract_zipfile(const char *zip_path);
 #endif
 
diff --git a/general.h b/general.h
index 336f0299e6..f22ba18949 100644
--- a/general.h
+++ b/general.h
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ struct console_settings
    bool block_config_read;
    bool default_sram_dir_enable;
    bool default_savestate_dir_enable;
+   bool extract_zip_files_enable;
    bool frame_advance_enable;
    bool gamma_correction_enable;
    bool initialize_ssnes_enable;
diff --git a/ps3/main.c b/ps3/main.c
index b5229ab098..a85931f2ed 100644
--- a/ps3/main.c
+++ b/ps3/main.c
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ static void set_default_settings(void)
 	g_console.custom_viewport_y = 0;
 	strlcpy(g_console.rsound_ip_address, "0.0.0.0", sizeof(g_console.rsound_ip_address));
 	g_console.custom_bgm_enable = true;
+	g_console.extract_zip_files_enable = can_extract_zip_files();
 	
 	// g_extern
 	g_extern.state_slot = 0;
diff --git a/ps3/menu.c b/ps3/menu.c
index 6b9aa2693f..5d018311c4 100644
--- a/ps3/menu.c
+++ b/ps3/menu.c
@@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@ static void select_rom(void)
 
 				snprintf(rom_path_temp, sizeof(rom_path_temp), "%s/%s", FILEBROWSER_GET_CURRENT_DIRECTORY_NAME(browser), FILEBROWSER_GET_CURRENT_FILENAME(browser));
 
-				if(strstr(rom_path_temp, ".zip") || strstr(rom_path_temp, ".ZIP"))
+				if((strstr(rom_path_temp, ".zip") || strstr(rom_path_temp, ".ZIP")) && g_console.extract_zip_files_enable)
 					ssnes_extract_zipfile(rom_path_temp);
 				else
 				{