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Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update*
03/01/11 06:14 PM


> > Hope one day see is CHD compressed with Winrar and load just like normal rom file,
> if
> > it´s possible we can have the MAME full compressed without having a lot of bytes
> for
> > our Disc.
> > Too many GB LOL.
>
> you don't know what you are talking about: CHD are already compressed! you don't gain
> anything significative by trying to compress them further.
>
> moreover, you might want to notice that rar files are not supported by MAME: roms can
> only be zipped

Theoretically, zip file specification says zip files can use LZMA (EFS) for compressing files, instead of just DEFLATE, so files compressed that way may be slightly smaller than DEFLATE equivalents. I'm not sure if zlib will properly decompress them though.

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Subject Posted by Posted on
* M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* -GivingBack- 03/01/11 04:54 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* TrevEB  03/01/11 08:28 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* BIOS-D  03/02/11 10:18 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* -GivingBack-  03/02/11 10:08 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* franciscohs  03/03/11 12:44 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* TrevEB  03/03/11 02:28 AM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* -GivingBack-  03/03/11 04:12 AM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* AnimalBear  03/01/11 05:41 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* R. Belmont  03/01/11 10:36 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* Foxhack  03/02/11 08:10 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* BIOS-D  03/02/11 09:03 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* R. Belmont  03/02/11 09:41 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* Foxhack  03/02/11 10:29 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* R. Belmont  03/02/11 10:59 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* Matty_  03/04/11 01:51 AM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* AnimalBear  03/02/11 07:43 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* etabeta  03/02/11 09:29 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* etabeta  03/01/11 05:57 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* AnimalBear  03/01/11 09:28 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* BIOS-D  03/02/11 09:39 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* redk9258  03/01/11 06:39 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* Lord Nightmare  03/01/11 06:14 PM
. * Re: M.A.M.E. Artwork Special Edition *Update* CTOJAH  03/01/11 05:56 PM
. * actually, compressed hunks of data ;) *nt* etabeta  03/01/11 06:12 PM

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