Yeah, Compressions vary widely... Check out the Harvest Moons!
Of course all of these are 1,425,760 KB uncompressed
Animal Crossing
Dolphin gcz 1,416,668 KB
7zip Ultra 1,429,654 KB
Baldur's Gate
Dolphin gcz 994,943 KB
7zip Ultra 717,924 KB
Beyond Good and Evil
Dolphin gcz 1,268,935 KB
7zip Ultra 1,024,733 KB
Zip Normal 1,245,262 KB
Harvest Moon - A Wonderful Life
Dolphin gcz 392,230 KB
7zip Ultra 192,506 KB
Zip Normal 380,223 KB
Harvest Moon - Magical Melody
Dolphin gcz 88,854 KB
7zip Ultra 29,990 KB
Zip Normal 75,245 KB
What I don't get is why Dolphin just doesn't use zip support like almost all other emulators. The numbers between GCZ and normal level ZIP are so close. Problem with GCZ, I must decompress using Dolphin and GCZ is not a standard compression format.
I would have to say that GCZ does do lossless. MD5-Checksums are the same between the original and a compressed then decompressed file. With that in mind, I'd assume safe.
Anyone care to try with a Wii game?
Of course all of these are 1,425,760 KB uncompressed
Animal Crossing
Dolphin gcz 1,416,668 KB
7zip Ultra 1,429,654 KB
Baldur's Gate
Dolphin gcz 994,943 KB
7zip Ultra 717,924 KB
Beyond Good and Evil
Dolphin gcz 1,268,935 KB
7zip Ultra 1,024,733 KB
Zip Normal 1,245,262 KB
Harvest Moon - A Wonderful Life
Dolphin gcz 392,230 KB
7zip Ultra 192,506 KB
Zip Normal 380,223 KB
Harvest Moon - Magical Melody
Dolphin gcz 88,854 KB
7zip Ultra 29,990 KB
Zip Normal 75,245 KB
What I don't get is why Dolphin just doesn't use zip support like almost all other emulators. The numbers between GCZ and normal level ZIP are so close. Problem with GCZ, I must decompress using Dolphin and GCZ is not a standard compression format.
I would have to say that GCZ does do lossless. MD5-Checksums are the same between the original and a compressed then decompressed file. With that in mind, I'd assume safe.
Anyone care to try with a Wii game?