diff --git a/zip_nes_roms.pl b/zip_nes_roms.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+#
+# this script conpress all *.nes files in current dir' subdirs with zip
+#
+
+use strict;
+use warnings "all";
+use IO::Compress::Zip qw(:all);
+
+sub zlist(@);
+my $L1;
+opendir($L1, ".") || die;
+my @L1DIR = readdir($L1);
+closedir($L1);
+undef $L1;
+
+foreach my $l1dir (@L1DIR) {
+	next if($l1dir eq ".");
+	next if($l1dir eq "..");
+
+	if (-d $l1dir) {
+		chdir ($l1dir);
+		my @list;
+		opendir DIR, "." || die;
+
+		while (readdir(DIR)){
+			if ((-f $_) and (($_ =~ /nes$/) or ($_ =~ /unf$/))){ push @list, $_; }
+		}
+
+		closedir (DIR);
+		zlist(@list);
+		@list = -1; undef @list;
+		chdir("..");
+	}
+}
+
+exit 0;
+
+sub zlist(@){
+	my @list = @_;
+	my $item;
+
+	foreach $item (@list) {
+		printf ("zipping: %s to %s.zip", $item, $item);
+		zip [$item] => "$item.zip", -Level => Z_BEST_COMPRESSION, Minimal => 1, TextFlag => 1;
+
+		if(length($ZipError) > 0){
+			printf ("Warning: unable to zip %s - %s\n", $item, $ZipError);
+		}else{
+			printf (" and deleting source file\n");
+			unlink($item);
+		}
+
+	}
+}
+