Compressing and encrypting game seems messed up?

• Sometimes the process of compressing and packaging the game into the .exe stalls very frequently. When this happens, if I try to run the .exe to extract the files back again will stall after a while with the "Game.rgssad" file.
• Other times I get a warning popup saying "????????". The files seem to have extracted correctly, but when I try to play the extracted game, anytime the game wants to prompt up a message, it crashes with the error: "Marshal data too small". I can't provide a screenshot since I haven't been able to reproduce this at this time.
• One time, when I removed the Battlers graphics from the original project in order to reduce the compressed .exe (about 68MB). This time the warning popup didn't appear, but the error from the game keeps appearing.

Note that RPG Maker XP may corrupt a compressed game if it is over 128MB in size. In this case, you should reduce the size of the project before you compress it. The easiest way to do this is to remove the Audio folder from the project folder beforehand, since typically music/audio is the largest part of a game. Afterwards, add the Audio folder back to the collection of files produced by the created .exe file.

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ptisnjunk95 said:

The rgssad file is where your encripted files (Graphics and Data folders) are stored. It takes a while to encrypt the file you have to wait... You mustn't remove the battlers folder, because the RMXP compress those files to the rgssad file.

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ptisnjunk95 said:

Try to compress without these files.

The ones in red should be deleted and the green ones just move out the folder and then paste it after compress and decompress

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Why don't you get a fresh .rxproj? All you need to do really is just grab the scripting .rxdata, the Database, and all the maps .rxdata . Maybe a specific file of the data is corrupting the whole project, and therefore you should experiment which one is corrupting. Once you find that file (or those files), try and emulate a new version of them...

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yonicstudios said:

Somehow it made it worse. Most of the graphics have disappeared, except for some random tiles, though the audio can be heard. The game still suffers from the marshal data too short error.
I noticed that the size of the .exe is still 128MB (131,154 KB to be precise), even after doing it again by removing the stock battlers from Essentials which I used as a backup. I also noticed that a few extra files, from Test.002 to Test.008, have appeared. The first files weight 127MB, while the Test.008 one has a size of 22.2MB

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TheKojo said:

I'm responding a bit late but I ran into a similar issue. With 16.1 something with the trainer data files seems to mess up encryption and I couldn't get the game to load a previously made save file without crashing with a "marshal data too short" error after encrypting it (yes, even with clean essentials). I had to end up messing around by taking most of the compiler script from 15.1 (since I could encrypt with that just fine) and merging it with some of 16.1 so it could still read some the new PBS file formats properly.

If anyone is having similar issues this is the compiler script I used to get around it: http://pastebin.com/f1xKjupU

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Telemetius said:

Thank you for sharing this, have you encountered any compatibility issues after editing the compiler with pieces of the old one? Just asking if it's 100% safe for the project.

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Maruno said:

It would be helpful if you had a look to see what had been changed that might cause your problem. Aside from the tweaks you also have in your code (adding the "Incense" property to Pokémon, etc.), I think all I've done is rearrange the methods in Compiler, which I can't imagine would cause any problems.

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TheKojo said:

When I have time I'll try and get more specifics.

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Maruno said:

That would help. I'd prefer it if you started with the v16.1 scripts, and made whatever changes to them in order to fix the problem, rather than make your own updates to v15 code. If your suspicion that it's caused by the skill codes is correct, you'd only need to modify one script accordingly (as few as a couple of lines).

I've had a hard look, and I can't see how they'd be a problem, though. For some reason I can't open compressed/encrypted files made by RMXP, so I can't test this error myself.

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def gender
    ret=2   # 2 = gender unknown
    pbRgssOpen("Data/trainertypes.dat","rb"){|f|
       trainertypes=Marshal.load(f)
       if !trainertypes[@trainertype]
         ret=2
       else
         ret=trainertypes[@trainertype][7]
         ret=2 if !ret
       end
    }
    return ret
  end

  def gender
    ret=2   # 2 = gender unknown
    #pbRgssOpen("Data/trainertypes.dat","rb"){|f|
    #   trainertypes=Marshal.load(f)
    #   if !trainertypes[@trainertype]
    #     ret=2
    #   else
    #     ret=trainertypes[@trainertype][7]
    #     ret=2 if !ret
    #   end
    #}
    return ret
  end