> Well, I've finally completed running my entire mame 0.80 rom set through zipmax.
>
> I've managed to shave off 85,663,438 bytes (81.7 megabytes) by using a
> combination of 7Zip, BJWFlate, and DeflOpt. I used other zip programs as well
> but I don't think any of them were able to improve on 7Zip + BJWFlate.
>
> It only took about 19 days on my P4 3GHz. Obviously the time spent was
> excessive for the return that I got but I just wanted to see what I could do.
> Also, in the future, I'll only have to compress new roms that I add top my
> collection.
>
> The only odd thing I encountered was that BJWFlate had an error compressing the
> Sport Fishing 2 (sfish2) rom set.
>


total overkill if you ask me....I only do a quick 2 times 7za run + deflopt. Fast and all you need....diskspace is cheap.


Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro