jacks897 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 (edited) This is a guide focusing on how to mass optimise/compress LaunchBox images. Some images are several MB and take up a lot of space. This will also mean that the interface is more responsive. Before I did this my LaunchBox images took up over 60GB! After this process only 25GB with no noticeable loss of quality. STEP 1. BACKUP YOUR LAUNCHBOX IMAGES FOLDER!!!!! - very important as this tool will replace images rather than creating a copy. STEP 2. Download Mass Image Compressor from this link - https://sourceforge.net/projects/icompress/ STEP 3. We will be performing 2 runs with the compressor tool. The first is to reduce the image dimensions of large images to 70%. The second is to compress the other images. STEP 4. Set directory to LaunchBox images directory then tick "Compress Images of All Child Directories" - BACKUP YOUR IMAGES FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUN 1 Settings ---------------------- Compression Parameters: 85% New Dimension in %: 70% Tick Compress if File Size Greater than 1MB RUN 2 Settings ---------------------- Compression Parameters: 85% New Dimension in %: 100% Tick Compress if File Size Greater than 400KB This will result in a massive reduction in the size of your images folder and will optimise the images. Edited September 1, 2021 by jacks897 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModerateNOOB Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Very cool!, Thank's. Reading your post made me do a check up on my own image folder which stood at 90gb (More than i expected). Ben spending the last 3 days gzipping ps2 isos, But every little bit helps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinyTsuruta Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 I like this, but I still want images at 1920x1080. Wondering what the impact would be on setting Run 1's New Dimension to 100% instead of 70%? My images folder is 156 GB! I was expecting around 75-100. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacks897 Posted September 1, 2021 Author Share Posted September 1, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, TinyTsuruta said: I like this, but I still want images at 1920x1080. Wondering what the impact would be on setting Run 1's New Dimension to 100% instead of 70%? My images folder is 156 GB! I was expecting around 75-100. If you would like the images to be kept at original dimensions then skip the first run and proceed to run 2 and make sure dimensions are set to 100% you could probably then set compression to 80% just be sure to keep a backup and make sure you are happy with the results Edited September 1, 2021 by jacks897 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlad Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 i did Compression Parameters: 85% New Dimension in %: 100% Tick Compress if File Size Greater than 1MB Saved nearly 20gb off 52gb. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModerateNOOB Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/7/2021 at 4:17 PM, sevenalive said: Should be compressing them to CHD using mame's chdman. Best emulators for ps1, ps2, sega saturn, etc support CHD files. Say goodbye to bin/cue. Use Dolphin's RVZ for gamecube and wii ISOs. * CHD not compat with older emus and might not be supported on the official hardware like gzip is. Bascially if you can, use CHD over gzip Thank's for the info. I only have like 4-5 iso's in bin/cue format, So that's okay. Deleting cue also works completely fine (never had any issues doing that). Actually never managed figuring out Mame, And find the front-end super annoying and confusing. Cheers 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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