Something you probably DIDNT know about Game Maker, This'll compress your Engines a LOT

Here's something you probably didn't know about Game Maker. If you've been making your Game for a while, the Engine may be FULL of Fragmented IDs. This, needless to say, increases the Filesize a LOT and slows down the loading time of the Engine, and most likely the EXE too! How do you fix this you may ask? Simple, download the Attached ZIP File, extract the .JAR File called lgm1.5.7.1, which I did not make, and run it. Keep in mind that your Computer MUST support Java for it to work. Now Open your Game, click the Resources Tab, and click Defrag IDs. Click yes and Save your Engine and you've just Compressed your Engine by who knows how much! I have compressed my Engines quite a bit with this method. I even shrank a 178KB GMK File down to 159KB! That may not seem like much, but think about how that Fragmented Space in your Engines can add up after a while, and how small Engines generally are or should be, that's quite a bit. Now, in theory, this will also shrink the size of your EXEs by a little and speed up the loading times, but I haven't tested that yet so I can't be sure.

Attached File ( Number of downloads: 39 )
 Lateral_Game_Maker.zip

I lost 431 KB and now my file size is 1337! (pun intended)

Good find!

EDIT: Except now my file is corrupted!

EDIT 2: Strange, it seems to be fine with other gm6 files. Wonder what's wrong with my first one?

EDIT 3: Uh, it seems like it just can't handle games of large file sizes. That sucks.

This post has been edited by Mason on Jul 3 2008, 08:24 PM

Sorry to burst your bubble but uhh...A couple hundred kilobytes really isn't much at all, so this isn't quite worth it, I don't think.

Nice loss of Filesize, and Lol at it being 1337. Sorry bout the Corruption though. I wonder why it doesn't like large Files... <.<

This post has been edited by OniLink10 on Jul 3 2008, 08:33 PM

Ahem, a Couple Hundred KB of UNEEDED Filesize. Hundreds of Kilobytes is Big for an Engine, Tens of Megabytes are big for an EXE.

Game Maker 6 has a problem with occasionally having its files becoming 'corrupt'.

That was fixed in Game Maker 7. It even reads files marked as 'corrupt' because of the glitch.

Dun dun dun dun. Lol, I forgot about that.

This might be useful, if it was able to open larger files.

Does this work with older versions of game maker?

It should work with GM6.

Also... is this an add-on to GM, or a third-party alternative? If it's the latter, I wonder if Yo Yo Games knows about this...

With gnome 2.0 I opened a new file and imported the old version of gnome to do the same thing, but it's awesome that I don't have to do that anymore =)
This is the same lateral GM that also converts GM6s to GMKs and vice versa, right? If so, I already have it and did not know about this awesome functionality ^^
Thanks.

ya, yoyo games knows about this... they also know about the gm decompileor thats also been floating around and it was made by the same people...

I dont know if they really like it because if you learn how to minipulate game maker to do something its not built to do... then thats how the decompileor was made and yoyo might not like it then... but that just my opinion...

This post has been edited by orange452 on Jul 4 2008, 11:17 AM

1,000kb really isn't that big.

Also was I thought everyone already knew about Lateral Gamemaker

ya, me to.... I onl found out a couple of months ago... but I suspected that many more did too cause there were alot of people on the g-java forms where it was originally posted...

Third-Party Alternative. I believe it was built in Java from Scratch, but designed to have the Same Features as Game Maker. If that's true, then it's completely legal. Also, YoYoGames does know about it, as it's talked about quite a bit on GMC, and none of the topics about it have been locked.

It works with Game Maker 5, 6, and 7.

I think it's the Same. It can also convert to GMDs. :O

The GM Decompiler was made to help YoYoGames improve the Security of GM's EXEs. Then some idiot released it Publically. -_-

It is for an Engine, unless it's the MKF Engine. I bet that's over 1MB right now. <.<

though storing the editable files either verbatim or close enough to be reconstructed as such in the exe wasn't the best idea ever