Yes I read all threads yet my findings were not presented.
Here goes, I dumped paper mario 2 into iso image. the iso works fine in dolhin as expected but I'm trying to dump all my library on bluray discs for storage and aim at compressing games as much as possible.
After dumping iso size is the usual 1.49Gb (you know the constant size for all gc discs). when I used dolphin built in compression I saved about 300mb. When I 7-zipped it I saved just about the same. What surprised me, was shrinking the iso with gcmutility as it saved me around 900mb!
my question is how could the difference be so big if all those utilities use similar algorithm to get rid of the gibirish data that fills the disc?
I have been doing readings about gcmutility and sometimes it mentions that game with audio streaming might have issues with shrinked isos. Is there a list of games that has those issues? I would much rather use gcmutility rather than dolhin due to the huge difference of saving space.
thanks
Here goes, I dumped paper mario 2 into iso image. the iso works fine in dolhin as expected but I'm trying to dump all my library on bluray discs for storage and aim at compressing games as much as possible.
After dumping iso size is the usual 1.49Gb (you know the constant size for all gc discs). when I used dolphin built in compression I saved about 300mb. When I 7-zipped it I saved just about the same. What surprised me, was shrinking the iso with gcmutility as it saved me around 900mb!
my question is how could the difference be so big if all those utilities use similar algorithm to get rid of the gibirish data that fills the disc?
I have been doing readings about gcmutility and sometimes it mentions that game with audio streaming might have issues with shrinked isos. Is there a list of games that has those issues? I would much rather use gcmutility rather than dolhin due to the huge difference of saving space.
thanks