TOOL: TS3 Recompressor
J. M. Pescado:
Like the original TS2 recompressor, we bring you the TS3 recompressor, with more features. Simple drag-and-drop or command-line interface! Fixes busted-ass Store Sims3Packs! Will work with the Jfadetool! Accept no Kewian-based substitutes!
Presently available in Windoze edition, until the designated Mac tester can figure out how to compile it for Mac. Linux edition available on request...although I can't see why someone who isn't me apparently would want it.
s3rc-win.rar
s3rc-lin-x86.tar.gz
J. M. Pescado:
NEW UPDATE
The mystery of bloaty, slow save files is solved: TS3 is saving every craptacular thumbnail and image and dumping it in your save file, which it then compresses, making the entire process slow and clunky.
Running your save file through s3rc -s will now ENSMALLEN these save files by stripping out all the thumbnail and imagecache data (your game will have to regenerate everything), but until the bloat catches up again, YOUR GAME WILL BE ENSMALLENED! Don't do this too often or you will instead see lots of blank thumbnails while the game regenerates them. This is not something you do every save.
diana:
I'm having a bit of a problem using s3Rc. My understanding is you simply drop the files onto the s3Rc and the program does the rest, easy enough. But when I drop my saved game files onto s3Rc I get these types of save files...
sims3.bad and sims3.tmp, the files shrink but they also become unusable. So what am I doing wrong?
Edited to correct typo error.
J. M. Pescado:
Bad files are bad. You don't try to compress bad files.
diana:
I figured out what the tmp files were for, and I thought the compressor was creating the bad files but I'll have to recheck that and get back to you.
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