Since 2.58's rom compress is disabled....

Rayder · February 03, 2007, 01:59:37 PM

...is there any way to compress the roms using some 3rd-party compressor?

I don't care if it takes a little longer to load.....my 2gig miniSD is full and I need to free up space.

If there IS a 3rd-party way to compress roms, do they need to be compressed before or after patching?

Does compression potentially break games?

This .scz file that it creates when they are compressed.......is that directly supported by the SuperCard?

kkan · February 03, 2007, 03:26:01 PM

most people use the ROM TRIM option as opposed to compression to get more on the card

dai_uk · February 03, 2007, 03:32:28 PM

Hi Rayder,

Simply install an older version of the software which has compress to a different directory on your PC

kkan - GBA doesn't have trim option, you can trim roms with gbata but to be honest the SC compress makes smaller files and I seem to remember there is little benefit in trimming with gbata then compressing - you get much the same size as compressing (always smaller than just trimming)

I think 2.56 was the last to have the compress option for GBA

Haoie · February 03, 2007, 04:18:03 PM

I only upgraded recently, and the lack of a GBA compress really bugged me, too.

dai_uk · February 03, 2007, 05:22:58 PM

I now hjave the older and newer software on m pc and just use older for gba - keeps it simple and they haven't updated gba support in a long time

kkan · February 03, 2007, 07:00:38 PM

Quote from: "dai_uk"Hi Rayder,

Simply install an older version of the software which has compress to a different directory on your PC

kkan - GBA doesn't have trim option, you can trim roms with gbata but to be honest the SC compress makes smaller files and I seem to remember there is little benefit in trimming with gbata then compressing - you get much the same size as compressing (always smaller than just trimming)

I think 2.56 was the last to have the compress option for GBA

ahh sorry assumed was talkin about ds roms here apologies

Rayder · February 03, 2007, 07:56:09 PM

So maybe using the rominfo.dat from the 2.58s in the 2.56 set will yield the best of both versions?

Devil_Spawn · February 04, 2007, 06:37:11 AM

gba rom compression was broken on the firmware side first, it was simply disabled in the patcher from then on, you will need to use an old firmware as well as an old patcher

Rayder · February 04, 2007, 08:07:04 AM

Quote from: "Devil_Spawn"gba rom compression was broken on the firmware side first, it was simply disabled in the patcher from then on, you will need to use an old firmware as well as an old patcher

Yes, I read somewhere that there are bugs with the compression so the Supercard team disabled it until they work out the bugs.

I guess I'll just wait for the SC team to fix it.... :|

onarum · February 04, 2007, 08:11:58 AM

Quote from: "Rayder"
Quote from: "Devil_Spawn"gba rom compression was broken on the firmware side first, it was simply disabled in the patcher from then on, you will need to use an old firmware as well as an old patcher

Yes, I read somewhere that there are bugs with the compression so the Supercard team disabled it until they work out the bugs.

I guess I'll just wait for the SC team to fix it.... :|

Which may never happen... they really don't care about GBA anymore... also I got the bad feeling they'll drop support for older slot-2 cards soon.

Quote from: "dai_uk"
kkan - GBA doesn't have trim option, you can trim roms with gbata but to be honest the SC compress makes smaller files and I seem to remember there is little benefit in trimming with gbata then compressing - you get much the same size as compressing (always smaller than just trimming)

The only benefit in trimming instead of compressing gba roms are the faster loads, since it won't have to decompress first.