Hey, so there's a collection of ps1 roms on archive.org, for archiving.
https://archive.org/download/psx-roms-archive
But, some of the RAR files can't be extracted by Windows 11, and give an error.
But they can be extracted by 7zip.
And when I try to re-compress the files with a single-threaded solid-block level-9 LZMA with a 3GB dictionary into a 7z... The file size is noticably bigger than the RAR which couldn't be extracted with Windows 11 natively.
I can't think of how to make my own compression any harsher, yet it still loses out.
What's going on?
- What has happened to compress some of these ps1 games beyond my comprehension?
I really wanted to have native windows 11 extract support for archives I keep for myself. It isn't a dealbreaker, but what has gone wrong or right here to make these RARs so compressed but also not easy to extract?