My file is too large, not sure how to compress it any further

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I ripped 898 sound effects from Super Paper Mario, and compressed them to a ZIP file. Problem is, I need it to be 20 MB or less, and this is like 25 MB. Not sure how to compress it any further, help would be appreciated. (I'm trying to upload it to MFGG by the way)
 
It's hard to achieve good compression results especially with zip. You can use Winrar to archive the files into a ~20.5 MB RAR file using Best compression mode, the solid archive option, and the lock archive option (the latter options are not available to ZIP files). However, I was unable to compress the file farther.

You can also split the compressed file into multiple volumes, limiting each one to 20 MB. Using the previous methods, I managed to create 2 parts the first being 20.0 MB and the second being 529 KB.

If you are limited to upload the file in ZIP format, I managed to create 2 parts the first being 5.60 MB, and the second being 20 MB.

I'm working on a way to compress the wav files before putting them in an archive.

EDIT: I tried to convert the files first to MP3 format while keeping the quality the same. Then I added them to a ZIP archive. The size became 12.9 MB. I've uploaded the file to MediaFire. Here is the link: https://www.mediafire.com/?7auaj7q1u9opwcl
 
Well, MFGG doesn't seem to accept MP3 files, unfortunately. The choices are IT, MIDI, OGG, SPC, WAV, and XM collections. And ZIP is the only format they'll take for the archive. Is there any way you can convert them to one of those formats? (I would but I'm unsure how to mass-convert files) Or can MP3 files be converted back to smaller WAV files without losing quality?
 
Converting to MP3 already made it loose quality, and converting it back to WAV will result in a file exactly the same size, as WAV encoding is basically not encoded at all.

A way to get WAV's be smaller is lowering the frequency of the sound. Will also lower the quality, but is not very noticeable (neither is MP3, but that's a terrible format for sound clips).
 
Convert it to OGG with Audacity. It lowers file size.
 
http://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_Mario_Super_Sluggers_media

All of these were converted from .wav to .ogg. All sound nearly perfectly. Yeah Audacity does screw up from time to time and makes loud noises, which is why you should double check.

I don't think it supports mass conversion though. If it does, I don't have it yet.
 
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