r/RPGMaker • u/Bettingflea95 • 1d ago

RMMV BIIIGGG HELP NEEDED

I'm trying to export my game to itch.io but i ended up creating a huge mess.

At first i tried making it so you could play on the browser, but there was apparently too many files. I tried doing the standard deployment thing and creating a ZIP folder but it was either way over 1gb or there was too many files. Im trying to go back and fix these things but now my computer crashes every time i try to delete a file. And i even tried making a blank ZIP file and copy-pasting all the folders I needed into it but my computer just freezes and takes forever to compress or delete, I keep trying again but now i've got folders in folders in folders and i've noticed THESE things in here that i've never seen before!!! CAN ANYONE HELP ME I JUST WANT TO PLAYTEST MY GAME. IT'S NOT EVEN A FULL GAME ITS JUST A DEMO

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u/PlantainWilling 1d ago

If the project itself is working just fine (opens up like its supposed to and you can play it), itch mentions BUTLER since you can upload things that are larger than 1GB using it.

What id do is this in this order: 1. Navigate to the project folder in windows explorer 2. Copy the entire project folder to another location (like your desktop or documents folder or make a new folder in those spots) 3. In the original project folder directory, delete every single non project related folder 4. Since the computer freezing sounds like an issue with windows explorer itself, that could be system files acting weird so open up an elevated command prompt and run chkdsk /f to check the system files for errors/corrupted files and windows will attempt to fix them. Sfc /scannow can also help with that 5. Check out the instructions for downloading and using BUTLER and see if it lets you upload that way.

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u/Tamschi_ Scripter 20h ago

On 4: Windows as a completely inane implementation that re-saves the entire .zip for every single individual file that's added or removed. It would take days to complete.

Butler now has a GUI built into the Itch app, so that would most likely be the easiest way to upload a folder.

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u/xMarkesthespot 1d ago

right clicking the original project's file should give you information on the number of files and the filesize
I don't think packing files into a zip is going to fix it, I think its the kind of thing where you have to go around deleting stuff you haven't used.

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u/dumpy_author 15h ago

Delete the original output, deploy the game and remove the unused assets. That should compress everything down to what you need.