Best Compression Methods for 'Specific' Games. Q&A

[:( Sad8669]

Originally Posted by L33THAK0R

My arc.ini is here. Thank you for offering to take a look at it, any help or advice means a lot to me! I should mention I've been using Tiny Compressor 1.4 to put together my conversions, as I'm not comfortable enough with my knowledge of this field to try out more feature packed alternatives such as DiskSpan.

Don't worry because at first, i too was afraid to use DiskSpan. Since i was using UltraArc and it had less options but you have to try different things to learn and life is all about experiment ain't it?

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by :( Sad8669

Don't worry because at first, i too was afraid to use DiskSpan. Since i was using UltraArc and it had less options but you have to try different things to learn and life is all about experiment ain't it?

I suppose so, I've managed to add any compressors I've needed to my tiny compressor installs so far, and I haven't encountered any issues other than making sure my options/arguments/commands for the compressor in question are correct. My only limitation currently is the available compressor to choose to include in my setup.exe, as I'm using ASIS v7.2.0 (newer versions are giving me a hard time), but I'm confident in time I'll be able to add the appropriate additional decompression executables (not sure if that's the right term) when I'm required to (i.e. oodle compressors, and Razor's title specific tools).

[:( Sad8669]

Originally Posted by L33THAK0R

I suppose so, I've managed to add any compressors I've needed to my tiny compressor installs so far, and I haven't encountered any issues other than making sure my options/arguments/commands for the compressor in question are correct. My only limitation currently is the available compressor to choose to include in my setup.exe, as I'm using ASIS v7.2.0 (newer versions are giving me a hard time), but I'm confident in time I'll be able to add the appropriate additional decompression executables (not sure if that's the right term) when I'm required to (i.e. oodle compressors, and Razor's title specific tools).

Give LIS a shot, its pretty clean and has most of the newer compressors.
I would also recommend the Razor's WPI Installer, you can modified it according to your liking.

[pratikpatel8982]

Originally Posted by L33THAK0R

I suppose so, I've managed to add any compressors I've needed to my tiny compressor installs so far, and I haven't encountered any issues other than making sure my options/arguments/commands for the compressor in question are correct. My only limitation currently is the available compressor to choose to include in my setup.exe, as I'm using ASIS v7.2.0 (newer versions are giving me a hard time), but I'm confident in time I'll be able to add the appropriate additional decompression executables (not sure if that's the right term) when I'm required to (i.e. oodle compressors, and Razor's title specific tools).

The CorePack Script by BlackFire69 also has option to import custom compressors in it + it looks badass too.
It's the only reason I use diskspan because many iss scripts are made specifically for it like LIS, ASIS, and CIU v3.

[pratikpatel8982]

Originally Posted by L33THAK0R

I suppose so, I've managed to add any compressors I've needed to my tiny compressor installs so far, and I haven't encountered any issues other than making sure my options/arguments/commands for the compressor in question are correct. My only limitation currently is the available compressor to choose to include in my setup.exe, as I'm using ASIS v7.2.0 (newer versions are giving me a hard time), but I'm confident in time I'll be able to add the appropriate additional decompression executables (not sure if that's the right term) when I'm required to (i.e. oodle compressors, and Razor's title specific tools).

I think asis loads a setup.dll, an arc archive which has external compressors. You can study that and create your own setup.dll for your setup.exe.

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by pratikpatel8982

I think asis loads a setup.dll, an arc archive which has external compressors. You can study that and create your own setup.dll for your setup.exe.

I went down this route and even had some very kind users here offer their skills and help but alas I ended up sticking with v7.2.0.