Tutorial on how to Compress & Uncompress LZ77 Data

Major thanks to Nintenlord for his amazing program, NLZ77-- it's literally amazing in it's capabilities.

Compressing Data

1. Open up Nintenlord's LZ77 Compressor.
2. There will be two "browse" buttons. For the first one, select the file you are looking to compress.
For the second one, type in the name of the new file with all the compressed data.
3. Make sure the option on the right is on "Compress" and then hit run. 
4. Wait for it to run a few seconds (if it takes longer, just wait) and then a pop-up should say "Finished". Hit "OK.
5. You are now finished.

Uncompressing Data

1. Open up Nintenlord's LZ77 Compressor.
2. There will be two "browse" buttons. For the first one, select the file you are looking to uncompress.
For the second one, type in the name of the new file with all the uncompressed data.
3. Make sure the option on the right is on "Uncompress" and then hit run. 
4. Wait for it to run a few seconds (if it takes longer, just wait) and then a pop-up should say "Finished". Hit "OK.
5. You are now finished.

Recompressing Data (for use with Character Editor)

1. Open up Nintenlord's LZ77 Compressor.
2. There will be two "browse" buttons. For the first one, select "database.tpl", which is the file with all your changes.
In order for the game to make the changes, it needs to have your new file. But it doesn't like the way your file is now.
So you need to use this program to change it.
3. For the 2nd browse, type in "database.cms"*.
4. Make sure the option on the right is on "compress" and then hit run.
5. Wait for it to run a few seconds (if it takes longer, just wait) and then a pop-up should say "Finished". Hit "OK.
6. You are now finished.

Go along, continue with the other tutorial now. Once you do this once or twice, you'll get the hang of it and it'll happen a lot faster, trust me.

*the .cms can be anything, however I recommend you set it to database.cms, database.lz7, or database.blz,
as it's the LZ77 compression stuff (cms stand for compression, lz = lz77).