Testing, testing:
DAT: Fail.
BIN: Pass.
MGD: Pass.
GRP: Fail.
PAT: Pass.
SMK: Fail.
:: Edit
MGP: Pass.
Isn't pcx an image? It would probably be set to be downloadable and not as a regular image.
ADDITION:
Failed how?
It said the extension was not allowed.
Fixed that... are they downloadable then?
If you have better icons specific to those file types... (if you guys that use them actually care)... attach some
16x16 if you don't want to wait for me to get around to converting it
If it was you, Voyager, don't go poking around in my PAT file.
No, that was me
Okay, then in that case, you already know all about my PAT file.
Seriously? all these extentions.. why not just post a single mpq?
Corbo's right here. Why do we need all these file extensions, when we can just extract them from the MPQ itself?
MPQs aren't allowed, are they? That's another thing you should probably add.
So you people complain if someone posts a zipped map or makes you decompile iscript/aiscript.bin but you don't mind extracting from an MPQ? Okay...
Good. Never had to use .rar, but I'm quite sure it's better then .zip.
compresses 8-15% better, supposedly.
7Zip > RAR (open source AND more flexible AND better compression)
Hey, wait, what about the people that dont have WinRar? How are they supposed to open the .rar files? Can WinZip do it?
I dont have winzip, so i dont know.
ยป 7Zip > RAR
As I said, you will find the results are different every time. The only constant is that ZIP is the biggest.
.gz turns 850mb of text into 127mb... I think that's pretty sweet. I don't care enough to extract the file and test it on other compressions though.
.rar is popular... so it was added... okay... but are we seriously talking about 7zip now? I never even heard of it.
I can agree with .rar because it's number two in popularity to .zip... but, 7zip, while good compression, is used far less often.
.bmp's don't have attachment previews.
Example:
3.bmp ( 13.6k )
Number of downloads: 0bmp's are windows specific and dont have compression (or at least good compression). Basically, use PNG instead of BMP.
.bmp is the filetype used by retrogrp, therefore it is sometimes useful to use that filetype.