how do you get the game size as low as possible?

When I gave my project to Shaz to look into a problem he commented on how big it was (it was 2G). So I removed all the dlcs and only added in those things that I was using (which wasn't all that much). But when I compressed it yesterday for some gametesters it still came out at 1.28G or something close to that. 

So I'm wondering, how can I get the file size low or what contributes to it being so large?

The answer is steam.

I have been saying for weeks and weeks now... When you compress a game on steam in includes the RTP TWICE!!

People should really look into this now... Its getting quite silly...

One way ... You could open the compressed file - remove the audio that isnt used and the graphics folder that isnt needed and then re-compress it somehow :)

That will reduce it by a couple hundred MB at least :D

What on earth is making it so big? The music, maybe? MP3s and the like really eat up space.

Or do you perhaps have many large parallax images?

EDIT: I have been NINJA'd by Dekita! What an honor! :guffaw:

I think I have maybe 3 parallex images, no extra music. (though I will add Upbeat Town when I can find it again). 

I have 3 characters that are generated within rpg maker. But it's really only what was already in it. 

Is there already a topic or something on how you can remove the extraneous rtp file?

Does map size have anything to do with it?

There are a few ways you can 'remove' the RTP.

Probably safer using the game.ini method. It has been discussed in the IGMC sub-forum quite a bit in some of the main pinned topics :)

Also - do you have any script that could be creating additional data ? for example - I frequently use Tsukihimes data save script thing - which copies all my game data every time i hit play - in case of system failures etc. But it creates A LOT of excess data that you have to remember to remove :D

I haven't added any scripts. I have about 20 switches now. 

A few parallel processes.

If you have removed all the DLC and are only using a few resources within the default RTP your game shouldnt be anywhere near that large.

Are you sure you havent accidentally added excess audio files or large images ? Or maybe even some other kind of file that you misplaced ? It can happen :p

If not - open your compressed /encrypted game.exe (the blue square) and if it has a graphics folder - delete it. Then look through the audio folder and remove all the audio files you dont need.

Then re-compress it somehow - you could use an installer program or winrar for example.

If when you open the game.exe and there is no graphics folder. I have no idea what it could be.  Maybe someone else will be able to shed additional light on this :)

How about you just right-click on each of your unencrypted game's folders and see which is the biggest? That might help you find the root of the problem.

lmao so simple - yet so elegant.  :D

to have it that large, it will either be a movie file, lots of high res pictures or a number of sound files, especially if it's MP3

the RTP is around 200Mb so even if Steam adds it twice, that will only be around 400-500MB, so you still have about another 700MB to account for (basing on that 1.28GB one)

no movie, 3 extra sound files (they may be mp3, but they're dlc so I think I added them as ogg) and no high res pictures..

I'd give the file to one of you to look over. Cause it's really got me stumped.

graphics is 4,something mb and system is 1,something mb. 

I'd say you do what Solo said first, but make sure to do that on a compressed game...


so compress the game (without encryption), then extract it to your computer too then do what Solo said

apparently, I don't know HOW but there was/is an extra blue cube .exe file IN the blue cube .exe file which was about 0.9 G.

I compressed everything but the extra .exe and it's about 89mb now

Maybe you actually set the compression path into the project's folder path sometime ago so you now have that file in the project's folder, so everytime you compress, it includes that file too