GRF Diet Plan, v1.0.0.0 - last updated 2014/10/05

[Ai4rei 321]

GRF Diet Plan

About
This tool is a feature test of RO Patcher Lite's GRF library. It reduces GRF archive size by eliminating duplicated data, with non-shared palettes giving the best ratios. No client modifications are needed. See readme.txt for more details.

Known Issues
Using the "use best compression" option (off by default) might cause the client being unable to read certain files or degrade performance.

Download & Website
http://nn.ai4rei.net/dev/rotools/

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

Edited April 12, 2020 by Ai4rei

[Brynner 34]

wow thanks for this.

[evilpuncker 503]

another awesome tool by Ai4rei =D thanks!

Edited October 6, 2014 by evilpuncker

[hemagx 69]

that good tool, works fine when i drop my kRO GRF.

however i tried with fRO GRF, saying that it's not supported format O_O.

[Ai4rei 321]

My fRO GRF works fine. When it says, that it's not supported, then the signature "Master of Magic" was not found. Does your fRO GRF actually work?

[hemagx 69]

actually yea, it's works fine and i can play the game with no problems.

i will try later to make fRO out of C, maybe it's problem with reading the file itself cause permissions ? not sure.

[Ai4rei 321]

If the group "Users" has at least read access to the archive (File Properties -> Security Tab), it should be enough to access it. The client might have more permissions, because it is generally elevated.

 

 

Damned NT with it's "security".

 

Edited October 6, 2014 by Ai4rei

[evilpuncker 503]

If the group "Users" has at least read access to the archive (File Properties -> Security Tab), it should be enough to access it. The client might have more permissions, because it is generally elevated.

 

 

Damned NT with it's "security".

 

 

any chance to make it displays which file was not "successfully" read? =D I always wanted to know which file is corrupted in official GRF

[Ai4rei 321]

any chance to make it displays which file was not "successfully" read? =D I always wanted to know which file is corrupted in official GRF

You can use rsu.test for that. Edited January 17, 2016 by Ai4rei

[evilpuncker 503]

 

any chance to make it displays which file was not "successfully" read? =D I always wanted to know which file is corrupted in official GRF

You can use rsu.test for that.

 

seems like there is nothing that you can't do xD btw do you have any plan into making all of those tool together? that would be awesome something like GRF Suite 

[Ai4rei 321]

seems like there is nothing that you can't do xD btw do you have any plan into making all of those tool together? that would be awesome something like GRF Suite

There was something like that, GRF Shell Extension, but it's complexity killed it. There is also something to that effect in development, but I still lack the necessary skills to complete it.