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The current Azahar beta added support for compressing 3DS games and playing these compressed games directly (kinda like RVZ file type with Dolphin or CHDs with many emulators). I've been waiting for this feature for awhile now so I'm excited to see it implemented at last. The savings are significant too, I compressed everything I had and reclaimed about 30 gb from about 50 roms total.
Oh nice, very exciting. Were your roms encrypted or something before? My set of about 50 is 35gb total. Any space savings with the bigger/newer systems is nice though. Good reason for me to finally move away from citra..
They were decrypted but not trimmed, which is how the files are made smaller without compression. My whole thing is maintaining an archival-quality collection so being able to get smaller sizes without trimming makes me happy.
One thing to keep in mind is that the philosophy of Azahar is different than previous projects, it's stricter about what it loads and it might not work with your current files. If they're .3ds files, you can try renaming to .cci and see if that works. Otherwise I can verify that the decrypted roms from Myrient work just fine as long as you rename the extension from 3ds to cci. Unfortunately the CDN files from there are still encrypted so I'm looking for eshop exclusive games elsewhere (or until I get frustrated enoughtto dig out my 3DS and pull games from hshop)
Ah, I see. How do you trim them? Looking now, some of these games are the exact same size as others so I'm guessing not all mine are trimmed. I don't care as much about archival, just them being playable.
I heard about that, thank you for the reminder. I'll try and get a batch file to change the extension.
I've done it with Godmode on a 3DS with CFW. There's a few programs out there that can do it but I've never used them so I can't recommend any personally. It's not very complicated to do conceptually (just removing filler zeros from a dump) so I'm sure any of them will work fine.