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Old 04-02-2008, 05:32 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by _r.u.s.s. View Post
what's the point? it's not that we hosted 2 GB images or something
True for now but the size of abandoned games will rapidly increase and changing to a better compression format(not necessarily 7zip) sooner rather than later mite be a good idea.

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Originally Posted by GTX2GvO View Post
Longer compression times are equal to longer DEcompression times.
This is better than longer download times.
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Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire View Post
The whole point here is: Even if we were to offer two downloads, one with .zip and another for 7zip... There would be a lot of computer knowledgable people who will be pleased to download the 7zip version. But 90%+ of the downloads, those made by people who don't know better, won't even bother to try to discover what 7zip is and will download the .zip version anyways.
For a trial period the selected games should only be in the 7zip format and the right utilities will be available on the site, this will force people to use the 7zip format and if we get to many questions and to many people have trouble with it then the 7zip files will be removed and the zip files put in there place.
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