Newbie Question Thread

[Tmills]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently using mini compressor tool to compress my games into SFX.exe files. I'm looking for an easy way to quickly identify a good compression method for my games. I'm not looking for maximum compression, just a good balance of compression and decompression/extraction speed that can handedly beat just using 7zip.

is there any kind of tool that can scan a game folder and give you a report of file types found?
is there a common method that will be good enough to just throw at most games?
mini compressor has presets for example:
mxc = xprecomp+lolz1/$bitmapz=bmpz/$bink=bink/$void=void/$photo=jpg/$ogg=ogg/$wavz=wvp/$mp3=mpz

any help would be appreciated. i just want a simple way to store my games and save storage space.