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I was browsing the Nintendont compatibility list and I noticed some games say "compress with DMToolbox only". What is this and is this true anymore?

Also, is there a difference between using RVZ files or .ciso files? Tiny Wii Backup Manager converts everything into .ciso files for nintendont so I was just wondering. RVZ files are smaller so I'm guessing they are compressed in some way, would this affect them if they weren't done with DMtoolbox?

Forgive me if these are dumb questions. I just want to understand all of the terminologies and if I'm doing things right.

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