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File Limit for Project ZIP

A topic by fpdb created 34 days ago Views: 188 Replies: 10
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Hello,

I'd like to raise my file limit to upload my RPG maker project to my page. I've trimmed down the project as much as possible, but I have still around 1800 files which I cannot delete since they're all used.

I have tried uploading with the butler but it seems that the project gets converted to a zip automatically, even with the butler.

What's the size of your game? The current limit is 1GB.

I think it refers to a web game, where there is a limit of 1000 files.

RPG maker runs well using sprite sheets, so you could gather several images in sprite sheets to lower the file count and keep all the asset you need.

You'd better tell that to the OP, I'm just answering and I don't use RPG Maker.

Around 150MB, but the limitation for the Web player from itch isn't about file size, rather number of files inside the project.

If you can't reduce the number of files to less than 1000, you'll have to do without the web version and leave the game only in download mode, where you don't have that problem.

That's a shame, since the game isn't actually that big (around 150MB). I think the problem isn't so much joining all the sprites into single spreadsheets, since my game doesn't have that many sprites. The problem is that RPG Maker checks and requires default image and audio assets even if they're not used.

Also Itch claims my zip contains 1053 files even though I am certain it has only 999. No hidden files. How can this be?

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I am certain it has

Computers don't make those kinds of errors. If the server counts 1053, it's 100% certain that the ZIP file contains 1053 files.

The error must be happening when you create the ZIP file (either manually or using Butter). You might be adding an extra folder, or perhaps they're part of the RPG Maker executables that are added to your game files.

Try extracting the ZIP file and see what's different compared to your game folder. That's how you'll find out why there are 54 extra files.

If you need further assistance, you'll need to share the ZIP file so I can analyze it.

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There were no extra files, the regular Windows file compressor tool and 7-Zip were adding empty folders as file entries in the zip, which the Itch web player was counting as files somehow. Using a custom .bat to zip the files gave me the correct number of file entries.