diff --git a/BizHawk.MultiClient/MainForm.cs b/BizHawk.MultiClient/MainForm.cs
index 79c6e6ef15..f171c8ba75 100644
--- a/BizHawk.MultiClient/MainForm.cs
+++ b/BizHawk.MultiClient/MainForm.cs
@@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ namespace BizHawk.MultiClient
 									game.System = "SNES";
 									nextComm.SNES_ExePath = SNES_Prepare(Global.Config.SNESProfile);
 
-									((CoreFileProvider)nextComm.CoreFileProvider).SubfileDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
+									((CoreFileProvider)nextComm.CoreFileProvider).SubfileDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(path.Replace("|", "")); //Dirty hack to get around archive filenames (since we are just getting the directory path, it is safe to mangle the filename
 
 									var snes = new LibsnesCore(nextComm);
 									nextEmulator = snes;