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I wasn't talking about PWLib itself, I was more referring to the Damion Shard Case 1 Demo, (the version that comes with the full PWLib) which is 77,356,030 bytes (~77 megabytes) in size (of course, it contains a fair larger number of graphics than PWLib 1.1 with Graphics pack 2.0 contain, but I think that's mostly due to it having more of the character sprites included. This means that a copy of PWLib that has complete graphics and sounds would actually (probably) be a larger file than that, seeing as how the script file sizes are more or less negligible).
However, I'm not saying that the analogy holds up, as my
failed attempt at making my own game (not really a "game" per se, as stated) does not include any large portion of edited or added graphics, and thus requires less files to be included. In fact, I'm not really sure what point I was trying to make by bringing up file size in the first place, because 80MB is 80MB, regardless of whether it's a zip or an exe.
I guess the main reason I like this is because I find it more aesthetically pleasing, as it reduces the amount of directories with files and more directories in them (although, I think I read something about KSA_Tech eventually wanting to make AIGE use some kind of dat file setup rather than having all the files spread out). I guess that's not much of a basis for promoting this, but it's the way I'm going to do it for now until I find a method I like better.
As far as ROMs are concerned (I don't know a ton on the subject) but they tend to use various types of archiving for files, which allows them to store data in a format that can be read by the DS, but which makes the files more or less useless. For compatibility's sake, converting the images to a universal format (such as PNG) is simply useful and convenient (and to be honest, nowadays, 80MB is like a drop in the ocean). I think the smallest rom I have seen was like 7mb rar'd, so 2mb is a rather impressive sized. Unless you are talking about something completely different, in which case I am an idiot anyway. Correct me if I'm wrong.