The crunched version is compressed,furthermore while Im not aware what method the official versions us to compress I highly doubt it goes beyond simple picture minimization and with that should absolutely have no impact on the DM patch(outside of the patch obviously having higher quality pics in comparision).
Fair enough then why am I getting repeated crashes for this then of the type
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\EcchiSensei-Week_1\renpy\execution.py", line 798, in predict
for n in node.predict():
File "D:\EcchiSensei-Week_1\renpy\ast.py", line 1437, in predict
return [ renpy.game.context().predict_call(label, self.next.name) ]
File "D:\EcchiSensei-Week_1\renpy\execution.py", line 733, in predict_call
return renpy.game.script.lookup(label)
File "D:\EcchiSensei-Week_1\renpy\script.py", line 886, in lookup
raise ScriptError("could not find label '%s'." % str(original))
ScriptError: could not find label 'before_main_menu'.
While predicting images.