diff --git a/engine/src/tools/jme3tools/savegame/SaveGame.java b/engine/src/tools/jme3tools/savegame/SaveGame.java
index 189934606..5f3477f51 100644
--- a/engine/src/tools/jme3tools/savegame/SaveGame.java
+++ b/engine/src/tools/jme3tools/savegame/SaveGame.java
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ import com.jme3.export.binary.BinaryImporter;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 import java.util.prefs.Preferences;
-import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
-import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
-import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
+import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
+import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;
 import sun.misc.UUDecoder;
 import sun.misc.UUEncoder;
 
@@ -36,12 +36,9 @@ public class SaveGame {
         Preferences prefs = Preferences.userRoot().node(gamePath);
         BinaryExporter ex = BinaryExporter.getInstance();
         ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-        ZipOutputStream zos = new ZipOutputStream(out);
-        zos.setLevel(9);
         try {
-            zos.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(dataName));
+            GZIPOutputStream zos = new GZIPOutputStream(out);
             ex.save(data, zos);
-            zos.closeEntry();
             zos.close();
         } catch (IOException ex1) {
             Logger.getLogger(SaveGame.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, "Error saving data: {0}", ex1);
@@ -49,6 +46,7 @@ public class SaveGame {
         }
         UUEncoder enc = new UUEncoder();
         String dataString = enc.encodeBuffer(out.toByteArray());
+        System.out.println(dataString);
         if (dataString.length() > Preferences.MAX_VALUE_LENGTH) {
             throw new IllegalStateException("SaveGame dataset too large");
         }
@@ -75,12 +73,11 @@ public class SaveGame {
     public static Savable loadGame(String gamePath, String dataName, AssetManager manager) {
         Preferences prefs = Preferences.userRoot().node(gamePath);
         String data = prefs.get(dataName, "");
-        ZipInputStream is = null;
+        InputStream is = null;
         Savable sav = null;
         UUDecoder dec = new UUDecoder();
         try {
-            is = new ZipInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(dec.decodeBuffer(data)));
-            is.getNextEntry();
+            is = new GZIPInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(dec.decodeBuffer(data)));
             BinaryImporter imp = BinaryImporter.getInstance();
             if (manager != null) {
                 imp.setAssetManager(manager);