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Message: [QUOTE="JustLooking123, post: 9623, member: 1380"] Hi! Many good games takes a lot of space on disk, just because of some FMVs, uncompressed music, voice acting or even some times dummy files! While these sound like great aesthetics, after playing them once or twice, we might find them unnecessary anymore, especially intros... and most of them can be watched in internet easily... but carrying multi-hundred megs around just for them is too much, especially if we are archiving lot of games... In the past, there was some sites which provided highly compressed games, but nowadays they are hard to find... and the term is abused as clickbait, without giving any download link in the end! So I ask if anyone is interested in creating or sharing compressed/reduced versions of games? The goal is to: [LIST] [*]Removing (or compressing) unnecessary FMVs [*]Removing voice acts [*]Compressing/downgrading BGMs [*]Compressing/downgrading images and textures if they take too much space [*]Retain quality of game as much as possible [/LIST] Doing these might be easy in some games and challenging in others, but i think it's a good challenge and worthy to even have contests for it! A place which I found myself was [URL='https://archive.org/details/psxrip']This Page[/URL], which is about PSX games only, the guy really has cut everything to bone! and even used unordinary compression methods to compress roms, requiring some shabby tools to uncompress them before use... this is too extreme! but nevertheless fascinating to see how [B]800mb[/B] games are reduced to about [B]10mb[/B]! while retaining almost all important things! Well, i'm not talking about this level of extremity, yet i believe those games can easily reduced to about 100mb without much sacrifice... Thanks in advance. ? [/QUOTE]

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