Compressed games support?
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09-05-2022, 02:21 AM -
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CHD, CSO, ZIP, ISO.... Any chances?

My Demon's Souls and Drakengard 3 folders will be thankful.
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09-05-2022, 11:41 AM -
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No container format is supported right now
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10-17-2022, 03:33 AM -
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(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.

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10-28-2022, 01:20 AM -
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Only works if you're using a filesystem that supports compression, and even then it's not that good of a compression usually
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10-30-2022, 03:53 PM -
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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
This post was last modified: 10-30-2022, 04:13 PM by vlbastos.


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