AzaharPlus 2123-A

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Release AzaharPlus 2123-A · AzaharPlus/AzaharPlus

AzaharPlus 2123-A is the same as Azahar 2123 except for these features: Support of 3DS files. If a file works with earlier Citra forks, it works with AzaharPlus. Ability to download system files f...

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[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

For a fork of the Vanilla/Standard version of Azahar it is quite solid and alternate at the same time.

 

[aquova]

I need to try out the compression feature and see how much it saves. From their description in the changelog though, it seems like not all that much, based on the types of files I have

 

[secreto7]

I need to try out the compression feature and see how much it saves. From their description in the changelog though, it seems like not all that much, based on the types of files I have

If you do it, come and tell us how it went.

 

[aquova]

If you do it, come and tell us how it went.

Okay, I'll admit I'm somewhat impressed.

I typically prefer to use .3ds/.cci files over .cia, so that's what I tested with, but the compression for these seems really solid. These games are a combination of ROMs I've found online, mixed with some games that I've dumped myself (I'm pretty sure the ones with "odd" file sizes are ones I dumped, and potentially trimmed). All of these were done with AzaharPlus 2123-A.

I didn't play for long, but all of the games I tried seem to boot up and play without a problem, with the exception of Ocarina of Time 3D, which did crash the emulator the first time I tried it, although it worked after. Honestly, this seems like a really solid way to minimize your library. The only problem is that there doesn't appear to be a way to batch compress files, either through the UI or command line, although I see several Github requests asking for such a feature. Hopefully it'll come in the next release.

Game	.3ds/.cci File Size	.zcci File Size	File Ratio (Smaller is Better)
3D Classics - Kirby's Adventure	128 MiB	56.6 MiB	44.2%
Bravely Default	3.3 GiB	1.9 GiB	57.6%
Fire Emblem: Awakening	1.1 GiB	983.7 MiB	89.4%
Kid Icarus: Uprising	2.0 GiB	1.5 GiB	75%
Kingdom Hearts: DDD	1.8 GiB	1.5 GiB	83.3%
Kirby: Planet Robobot	1.0 GiB	631.9 MiB	63.2%
Zelda: ALBW	710.7 MiB	588.4 MiB	82.3%
Zelda: OoT 3D	485.2 MiB	319.4 MiB	65.8%
Zelda: MM 3D	657.8 MiB	563.0 MiB	85.6%
Luigi's Manion	512 MiB	181.6 MiB	35.5%
Metroid: Samus Returns	722.2 MiB	502.7 MiB	69.6%
New Super Mario Bros. 2	512.0 MiB	273.3 MiB	53.4%
Sega 3D Classics Collection	131.9 MiB	126.5 MiB	95.9%
Star Fox 64 3D	591.8 MiB	357.7 MiB	60.4%
Super Mario 3D Land	319.5 MiB	290.3 MiB	90.9%

 

[Deleted member 132407]

Okay, I'll admit I'm somewhat impressed.

I typically prefer to use .3ds/.cci files over .cia, so that's what I tested with, but the compression for these seems really solid. These games are a combination of ROMs I've found online, mixed with some games that I've dumped myself (I'm pretty sure the ones with "odd" file sizes are ones I dumped, and potentially trimmed). All of these were done with AzaharPlus 2123-A.

I didn't play for long, but all of the games I tried seem to boot up and play without a problem, with the exception of Ocarina of Time 3D, which did crash the emulator the first time I tried it, although it worked after. Honestly, this seems like a really solid way to minimize your library. The only problem is that there doesn't appear to be a way to batch compress files, either through the UI or command line, although I see several Github requests asking for such a feature. Hopefully it'll come in the next release.

Game	.3ds/.cci File Size	.zcci File Size	File Ratio (Smaller is Better)
3D Classics - Kirby's Adventure	128 MiB	56.6 MiB	44.2%
Bravely Default	3.3 GiB	1.9 GiB	57.6%
Fire Emblem: Awakening	1.1 GiB	983.7 MiB	89.4%
Kid Icarus: Uprising	2.0 GiB	1.5 GiB	75%
Kingdom Hearts: DDD	1.8 GiB	1.5 GiB	83.3%
Kirby: Planet Robobot	1.0 GiB	631.9 MiB	63.2%
Zelda: ALBW	710.7 MiB	588.4 MiB	82.3%
Zelda: OoT 3D	485.2 MiB	319.4 MiB	65.8%
Zelda: MM 3D	657.8 MiB	563.0 MiB	85.6%
Luigi's Manion	512 MiB	181.6 MiB	35.5%
Metroid: Samus Returns	722.2 MiB	502.7 MiB	69.6%
New Super Mario Bros. 2	512.0 MiB	273.3 MiB	53.4%
Sega 3D Classics Collection	131.9 MiB	126.5 MiB	95.9%
Star Fox 64 3D	591.8 MiB	357.7 MiB	60.4%
Super Mario 3D Land	319.5 MiB	290.3 MiB	90.9%

Thank you for this. This is very impressive.

 

[aquova]

I also didn't do them all, but I verified that the checksums were the same for the decompressed versions vs the originals as well, which is what you want to see.

 

[Deleted member 132407]

I also didn't do them all, but I verified that the checksums were the same for the decompressed versions vs the originals as well, which is what you want to see.

Does it have checksum tools, if not I use this.

GitHub - namazso/OpenHashTab: 📝 File hashing and checking shell extension

📝 File hashing and checking shell extension. Contribute to namazso/OpenHashTab development by creating an account on GitHub.

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[secreto7]

I also didn't do them all, but I verified that the checksums were the same for the decompressed versions vs the originals as well, which is what you want to see.

loader: Add compressed ROM support by PabloMK7 · Pull Request #1208 · azahar-emu/azahar

Adds support for compressed ROM files, with a brand new compressed format using seekable zstd as the compression algorithm (Z3DS file format). This manages an average compression ratio of 25% for t...

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• Support optional generic metadata, so that the original ROM file can be restored, including encryption.

On that pull request are all the details.