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Compressed games support? - vlbastos - 09-05-2022
CHD, CSO, ZIP, ISO.... Any chances?
My Demon's Souls and Drakengard 3 folders will be thankful.
RE: Compressed games support? - Ani - 09-05-2022
No container format is supported right now
RE: Compressed games support? - robg66 - 10-17-2022
(09-05-2022, 02:21 AM)vlbastos Wrote: CHD, CSO, ZIP, ISO.... Any chances?
My Demon's Souls and Drakengard 3 folders will be thankful.
If on a PC, you can always compress the folder(s). I have not tried it myself, but that's just a thought.
Rob
RE: Compressed games support? - Ani - 10-28-2022
Only works if you're using a filesystem that supports compression, and even then it's not that good of a compression usually
RE: Compressed games support? - vlbastos - 10-30-2022
GitHub - Freaky/Compactor: A user interface for Windows 10 filesystem compression
Compactor can help compacting these ROMs using Microsoft's own COMPACT.EXE command line tool and the LZX (most compression) format. Needs Windows 10/11. You can compress almost anything in your PC using Compactor/COMPACT.EXE and Windows 10/11 will access, read and write it transparently, as if it wasn't compacted. If you modify a file compacted with these COMPACT.EXE methods, the file will be uncompressed and you must compress it again manually.
It's a very decent tool, but it's nowhere near the highest compression methods you have out there, like LZMA2. But it's better than uncompressed, and it's transparent to Windows and RPCS3.
EDIT: my main concern in using a container is that those 12,511 files from Demon's Souls would be contained in a single file (which is better than 12,511 files).
EDIT 2: PS3 folder (46,938 files, 1548 folders):
Uncompressed: 713GB
LZX Compression: 668GB