Hacking Compress ROMs?

[FuManChuu]

I must be missing something.... I have the newest Supercard software, and the compress icon is grey'd out. I have a supercard lite rumble (thug style baby). Can you only compress GBA roms or something? (thats the only time i've ever seen it referenced. Thanks

 

[Destructobot]

Can you only compress GBA roms or something?

I would think so. GBA games have to be loaded into RAM on the cart, so it wouldn't really make a difference if they were compressed in the flash memory. DS roms are played directly from the flash memory, so compressing them would cause problems.

 

[chillyp]

I'm curious how compression would work on the SC Rumble. Didn't they remove the RAM?

 

[FuManChuu]

Hrm... all I gotta say is, trim does all the space saving i need.... 1.1 gig of games got trimmed down to 703meg.... awesome

 

[Jax]

I thought SC Rumble didn't support GBA.

 

[dblank]

Just for fun, try compressing them as well, I'd bet you'll save several hundred more MB (I do with mine)

I wish it were possible to decompress .nds right on the DS before running, but I think I'll have to write an app to do it myself.

Hrm... all I gotta say is, trim does all the space saving i need.... 1.1 gig of games got trimmed down to 703meg.... awesome