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Imliss' Theme.

To be quite honest, I'll never get over that theme. It's just way too amazing.

author=Liberty
The thing is that when you add in the files that were missing of course the file size is going to get bigger. That can't be helped since you're including the files that need to be in the download to actually work. That makes it so that the players don't have to download both your game and an extra 200MB RTP on top - because you're only adding those particular files the game needs to run.

Without doing this you're game would, to them, be the initial download PLUS the 200MB RTP instead of the much smaller 118MB is currently is. The only way to make it smaller is to remove resources altogether and change everything in the game to not rely on that particular resource.

So it does make sense.
Uh, let me see if I can make this more simple.
Let's say I have a 40MB game, but it requires the RTP to play. That would thus be 240MB.
However, if I only add the files from the RTP that I used, then it might be about 90MB instead, without needing to download the RTP as well. This way my players are only going to have to download one file, which will play whether they have the RTP installed or not and is a lot lighter than if the full RTP was included.

You're adding in the files that you're using from the RTP into the game. That makes it stand-alone but it's also adding MORE to the game files, thus it will be a bigger file to download because there is more in it. It won't be as much as if they had to download it and the RTP though, and will play for anyone on a PC.

Does that make sense?

Ahhh, yeah, it does. Actually, when I added in all of the RTP stuff (110 MB before), it went up to about 80 MB, which is 190 MB in total. I then compressed and encrypted it, going down about 10 MB, which would be 180 MB in total. That would be all you'd have to download instead of downloading an extra 200 MB and wasting an extra 5+ minutes just to play an RPG Maker Game which would probably turn people off, especially those who don't even know what the heck RTP is and just wanna play the game.


Though it IS 190 MB as of now, I wanted or expected it to be something far lower like Dreaming Mary or Legionwood, which are games that have a pretty low file size. (2-digits I believe.)

Oho, looks great! ^^