VMZip v1.0.0 Released

[Eric]

Well i finally got to test the tool out. Its a amazing tool not sure if this has been said but sys files seem to get more blocks. But i had saved 1 memory card of 3 that were full. I have now 2 memory cards with one block on 1. On the other memory cards they are full. So amazing tool i like it.

Eric

[sixtyten]

By the way, this thing works WONDERS for MSR save files (PAL version anyhow, not sure if NTSC is any different). I believe a save file is 63 blocks, well, this tool knocks it down to 5.

[RockinB]

Bucanero, which blockSize100k are you using fo compression?

I can only use 1 or up to 4 with external 4MByte RAM cart.

[bucanero]

this thing works WONDERS for MSR save files (PAL version anyhow, not sure if NTSC is any different). I believe a save file is 63 blocks, well, this tool knocks it down to 5.

Thanks for the info! If you have compressed more saves, please post your compression results. I'm building a list of saves with their original/compressed size.

Bucanero, which blockSize100k are you using fo compression?

I've tested using from 1 to 9 and I've got the same compression results, so I finally used blocksize=1 to use less memory. I think that the blocksize var makes a difference in bigger files, because even a whole 200 blocks save file is less than 1 mbyte of data.

[RockinB]

Thanks for that compression hint, so bigger blocksize does only have an effect for bigger files.

As for bigger files: Is it possible to put multiple files into one compressed archive?
Because that would increase compression ratio even more.

I don't have a VMU at my current location, but I have a handfull of overfilled VMUs elsewhere, so I'll try it soon.