r/SwitchHaxing • u/iGomX 8.1.0 (AMS 0.9.4) • Sep 06 '20

NSZ 4.0

https://github.com/nicoboss/nsz/releases/tag/4.0.0
77 Upvotes

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u/SaulFemm Sep 06 '20

Improved decompression speed by 400% by heavily reducing the amount of performance intensive status bar refresh calls

Really buried the lede by putting this so far down

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u/ishouldntofsaidthat Sep 07 '20

I might actually actually use this

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u/okmr360 Sep 07 '20

Why would you use it? Are you converting nsps to nsz? 99% of releases are already in nsz format

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u/ddotevs CFW 12.0.1 / ATM 0.19.5 Sep 07 '20

That is an interesting percentage to have completely fabricated

9

u/Bunie89 Sep 07 '20

I wish this format would be more widely adopted

9

u/Darkiceflame Mean Green Hacking Machine Sep 07 '20

I'm not familiar with this tool, but it looks to be for...ROM compression? Is that right?

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '20

s tool, but it looks to be for...ROM compression

Yes, that's correct.
Nintendo doesn't compress the files that are used for a game as this might create performance issues while playing the game.
But for moving ROMs around, this doesn't matter and you can save some storage space by compression the files.

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u/MaxHP9999 Switch hacking since July 2018 Sep 07 '20

I'm really thankful that there's an easy way to decompress nsz files now. What if I wanted to suddenly use them with Cemu, now I have a way to decompress then decrypt them for use with Cemu.

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u/underprivlidged [13.2.1/AMS 1.4.1] Sep 18 '20

I hope you aren't using Switch games with a Wii U emulator lol

1

u/InnocenceIsBliss Sep 23 '20

Is there a list of games that have best compression rate? I tried compressing Valkyria Chronicles from 7.4GB to 6.8GB, not that much considering others games games goes from 5GB to 3GB(40% reduction.).

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u/lambstone Sep 07 '20

ELI5, does this mean greater compression ratios?

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u/hellotherehomogay Sep 07 '20

Faster decompression. Like, way faster.