It is. Take "Lords of the Fallen" as an example, where the key looks funny aswell
With that key you will get almost all streams and output is better than without. I was surprised aswell.

Furthermore if using DSG, you have to set correct oodle library as parameter (which is just a fake parameter for xtool). In this case the correct parameter should be as follow:
But I said you have to use the other v2.9.10 library, and even in this case there is a fake parameter possible, namely
which just tells DSG which library to copy near xtool.exe for compressing/decompressing (in this case "oo2core_9_win64_2.dll", which will be renamed to "oo2core_9_win64.dll" from "core_2.9.10" folder).

Edit: I still prefer to run multiple instances for xtool for different codecs because sometimes things will get broken if you use -d1 option and more than one or two methods, at least with current public xtool version and my testing (archive data corrupted and things like that). But honestly I don't know if this has anything to do with xtool or srep or DSG.

In this case I would use something like this for DSG
Edit 2:
mermaid+kraken / ue5<key>+mermaid+kraken
Did not tested with zlib

Wrong GAME name on this one needs redoing.

Don't know what you talking about, but fixed.

@Kaktor
Some of my files for Starfield .ba2 keeps erroring out during decompression. Can you help?

Like: Starfield - Terrain01.ba2, Starfield - Textures01.ba2, etc.
I use DSG 2.0.2.0
Method: mstarfield+mreflate+dd+lolz

Should I be compressing them separately?

Do not compress them separately, as you will miss many duplicates.

Use starfield+zlib+reflate instead. All streams which cannot be processed by zlib will processed by reflate instead so "wrong" streams will processed with the correct method.

However in those cases always make testing with a single file, just don't waste your time. If you get errors on a specific file than take that "Starfield - Terrain01.ba2" file to some folder and use starfield+reflate and on a second test starfield+zlib+reflate and test decompression.

I could go even further and tell you to see what specific stream is making problems and extract it from the file, then test things with that specific stream but this would go a bit far for this case I guess.

I'm using the plugin on the DSG, and verified that it already has zlib dll. Should i use that same plugin and external zlib dll too?
Like: mstarfield (this already has zlib) + mzlib + mreflate?

Whatever you said I'll try and DM tomorrow in case of help.

Yes, for DSG it is "xtool:mstarfield+xtool:mzlib:mreflate:dd[1..5]" then.

@kaktor

For file: Starfield - LODTextures.ba2
The compression method with xtool:mstarfield plugin is failing.
Should I be compressing it with zlib+preflate only? Or seperately?

What exact method you are using? Works fine here

hello
I've got some question, its about "terminator dark fate"
the is a file called "basis.pak".
I'ts a PKZIP file (zip 2.0 with a password)
this file contains several files (animation,textures,sound ect)

In this file I extracted with sfk/partcopy a block from byte 882682388 to 4507627948.

I obtain a new file called sound.pak with is aroung 3.7Go.
it's again a PKZIP file with the same password of the big file...

I would like to know how to compress it , my first idea was to use xtool/flac or msc, but seems to not working (probably because password and packed)

I think the right way is to uncompress/decode compress then during installation use batch with sfk to re inject sound in basis.pak ...

thanks for your help

password
Thanks to masquerade

PS: The password is stored as plain text in trm.exe
https://i.imgur.com/fF5pLvn.png

yes I have already found the password.
Now I try to find a way to compress/decompress the separate pak files

I need to unpack zip, compress with arc then make a batch to rebuild files likes on the game inital structure ?

I would try to compress the files with zip with same zip settings and password, then make diff patch to patch files back to original. Not sure if this will work, could be difficult because of the password protection.

yes it's more or less what I tried

In fact this file, basis.pak was uses as a mounted drive/partition
There is a structure like if they done an usb/harddrive image.

I'm starting a test, maybe the game do not check the crc of this file.
in this case probably I may unpack/repack without problem

I'll give an update this evening

Game runs with unpacked data.

Ok, it works
it's not a realy nice way to pack/unpack but it works
I think the problem is when use zip with password, it introduce some random number in header and data of the final zip
So there is no easy way to use xdelta or hdiff to rebuild original file

what i've done for v1.04.987:
uncompress basis.pak in a temporary folder
uncompress patch_003.pak in temporary folder
uncompress patch_005.pak in temporary folder
remove basis.pak patch_003.pak patch_005.pak

pack with diskspangui

then in my unpack batch, in the temporary folder :
.\7z.exe -mx5 -tzip -spe -poKoo$]bnGTKJLMNBA9A a patch_003.pak .\patch_003\*
.\7z.exe -mx5 -tzip -spe -poKoo$]bnGTKJLMNBA9A a patch_005.pak .\patch_005\*
.\7z.exe -mx5 -tzip -spe -poKoo$]bnGTKJLMNBA9A a basis.pak .\basis\*
move basis.pak ..\
move patch_005.pak ..\
move patch_003.pak ..\
delete temporay folder

I'm around 10go compressed game with setup.exe
game works without issue

Sker Ritual v 1.0.2.20980

Hello everyone, maybe someone knows the compression method for the Crime Boss Rockay City game? this is an example file:
Ucas: https://drive.google.com/file/d/141x...usp=drive_link
Pak: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P7Q...usp=drive_link
Thank you:)

HORROR TALES: The Beggar v 14729589

zlib

zlib+reflate gives slightly better ratio:

I did a deep check today and found out there are at least 1 wav file which will crash using msc or flac.

This file will cause a crash:
PS: I can't edit my previous post because forum software is bugged.

yes in fact there are something like 12 wav files that can crash msc/flac
that's why I switched to wavpack which does 100% wav conversions

There's another little trick
If you make a batch script to automate file creation before compression.
some files have names in Cyrillic
So I added this command to my batch file:

I can post my batch files if you want
it's not really optimized I've started to try conversion something like 2 month ago...

TRAIL OUT v 3.03

Thank you for telling me, but why is the compression process always stuck here? I've been waiting for 4 hours and it hasn't finished
http://i.ibb.co.com/1R3NDjh/Crime.png

See if srep.exe is in use (taskmanager)

Would be good for general information for other users, so if you want just post it ;)

It doesn't work (down to 0) and I've tried using srep as well as stuck, can you help me analyze this game?

Use only mzlib and see what happens

still the same, have tried from mzlib to xt_zlib still stuck:confused:
http://i.ibb.co.com/DVYBZz6/Crime-boss.png
maybe someone can help?

Here it works fine

Try compressing using the method

I see srep64. See if srep is working normally. Otherwise try with +srep+ instead of :dd3

I've tried using srep new but it's still stuck, should I use it lolz?

Must be something on your end. Works fine here

I've tried moving it to another drive and trying to compress using: xtool:mzlib:mreflate:dd3+4x4:b64mb:lzma:ultra:bt4: fb273:lc8:mc1000000:64mb and it's still stuck and tried your method and it managed to compress to completion but When you want to test install an error appears with code -11:(

Edit: Finally, changing from xtool:mzlib to xt_zlib can also be installed until it's finished

hello daniel , it's for what game ?
I've got some free time tonight to try

i think its for Crime Boss Rockay City