As for "Forspoken" bink2 videos, you can use a chunk size as 981mb, as the biggest file is 981mb

Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart

For the movie files you can use bink2 plugin with a chunk size like c1gb. The videos are just stored as plain text. You can see the bink2 file headers "KB2j" with HxD but I don't know how big the biggest file is actually. However I guess c1gb should be enough.

I guess you can find out the biggest file chunk using xtool verbose mode with the bk2 plugin, but not sure.

Hello

Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart I want to compress game
DiskSpan_GUI help with files needed for the filesystem for compression

I want to reencode music and videos in some of my old games but all those files are encrypted and if i run ffmpeg on them it will not give me any good results as the enryption is stopping the files to be modified. Any tool to break this encryption in games

At present i am testing on thug 1,2 and THPS 4

All the compression tools are already present in diskspan gui you just need to select input and output folder and select one of the preset methods[make sure your system has good processing power when you select a high resource consuming method otherwise it may throw an error in between]

Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart
v1.727

Bink2 video information

The soundbanks contain wem files. It is possible to use WemTool on extracted wem files. The same goes for the other wem archives. However some of them are truncated, whatever this means. I have attached the first file from wem00 file.

Good morning! I've tried to compress "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order". In installation process something got wrong: unarc error -12 during .bk2 files installation. Even bink_pack didn't recognize .bk2 file as standard file.
So I've tried to compress .bk2 files in another way, with no good results.
So, are these .bk2 files different? Do I need a specific tool for those? Which one?
Thanks in advance!

Send sample

Edit: According to the file list, this game does not contain any bink2 files, just mp4.

I'll send a sample as soon as i come back home. Anyway, in the deluxe version there are four movies: DDV_1.bk2, DDV_2.bk2, DDV_3.bk2 and DDV_4.bk2.

I see.

Edit: It is a legit KB2j file and should work. However the first part of the file does not belong to a standard bink2 file format. Maybe deleting this part and patching it back again after unpacking do the trick.

https://i.imgur.com/jE5nG3v.png

Bink2 header is "4B 42 32" and the next letter indicates the version and/or codec used. Starting with "n" or later letters are not compatible with binkpack. This way you can always see right off from the start if using binkpack is possible or not.

Edit 2: It works with XTool bink plugin. Normal BPK just failes on extracting.
Steps:

1. Open the bk2 files with HxD and search for the first bink2 header and delete the whole part starting from the beginning of the bink2 header "KB2j" to the start of the file and save the file so "KB2j" is on the very beginning of the file (HxD will make a BAK file as backup).
2. Use XTool bink video plugin
3. Make patches from Original and Cutted files
4. After extracting, patch the files back to original with xdelta or hdiff (patch files should be very small)

Hello
DiskSpan_GUI I want to get help
I request your support about adding XTool 2020 Plugins DiskSpan_GUI about compressing games
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart I want to compress

First of all, THANK YOU for your support.
The only issue I have is how to decompress .bin file using Xtool bink. I think I have to use files i can find in "COMPRESSOR\Resources\TOOLS\Bink" from DiskSpan, but how?

https://i.imgur.com/mkrTTHV.png

Set XTool chunk size like c1gb, should be enough.

Hello

Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart I want to compress game
DiskSpan_GUI help with files needed for the filesystem for compression

My test with xtool v 0.77 + oodle 2.9.5

Sorry I forgot to edit that...
After Razor updated xtool (or plugin), everything works fine :D

Hello everyone!
Does anyone know how to fix these errors? (Xtool&UnityPlugin latest versions)
Game: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (Build 11836620)
Dir: Bundle folder (34 gb)
xtool.exe run as administrator
Game folder not in read only
https://i.ibb.co/njNL95L/231226.png

Someone tried to precompress Baldur's Gate 3?

Sample (Textures_2.pak):

Another sample:

I guess they using the same engine as in Divinity 2, I bet they still use lz4. Maybe try to use the lspk bms script and make a xtl plugin.

I don't looked at the files so I cannot say anything atm. I am at work lol

I didn't try to create the database but I already tried with quickbms and that script. It can't unpack the game files.

Help Me - How to repack game Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
 

How to repack game Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
What Tools ?
I want a video explanation

ultimate Marvel vs capcom 3
method used ztool zlib streams
pzlib+srep:m5f:a1+lolz:dt1:dtp1:dto1:dtm1:dtw1:dtd 1:mtt1:mt6:d100m:tt4
initial size 3.53 gb
Repack size 1.75 gb

How do I use this

You can use this tool to compress your files with your method

I already told you what tools you need to use in your other topic.

Not ztool. It's old. XTool, srep, lolz and oggre.

Nobody will make a video.

I made a quick modification to the lspk script, I'm no expert when it comes to bms scripting but eh...

Shared.pak
via bg3.xtl (generated using bms2xtl)

bms2xtl.ini
use liblz4.dll that comes with xtool attachment

Note that on multi pak files, the script will fail that's why safemode is on, for the streams in multi pak files, you have to make sure that freearc captures these files in sequence else the streams will be left behind.

I don't have this game and I can't add support for multi pak files so hope that this approach works.

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy
 

xtool:mkraken:8+srep_new+lolz

Grand Theft Auto III: The Definitive Edition - 3.17GB
Grand Theft Auto Vice City: The Definitive Edition - 6.8GB
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas: The Definitive Edition - 14.2GB

So, I have a question here:

The problem with kraken compressor is that it takes a lot of CPU memory and takes lot of time to extract.

So, while trying to compress GTA Trilogy using kraken:8, it takes around 45 mins to install all three games on average PC. Is there anyway to speed up the extraction process by adding a pre-compressor to the algo?

thanks bro

The Oodle family of compression algorithms are very CPU intensive. You can't speed it up.

XTool or Oodlereck, which processes the kraken streams, is the precompressor. Precompressors decompress data and compress it back during installation.

it doesn't seems to work
FreeArc is correctly sorted files
Textures.pak
Textures_1.pak
Textures_2.pak
Textures_3.pak

solid .arc, bg3.xtl made of separated pak's
Compressed 4 files, 13,743,119,215 => 16,734,251,958 bytes. Ratio 121.76%

per file (not solid) .arc, bg3.xtl made of separated pak's
Compressed 4 files, 13,743,119,215 => 16,734,252,036 bytes. Ratio 121.76%
solid .arc, bg3.xtl made of joined pak's
Compressed 4 files, 13,743,119,215 => 16,734,251,958 bytes. Ratio 121.76%

per file (not solid) .arc, bg3.xtl made of joined pak's
Compressed 4 files, 13,743,119,215 => 13,743,127,639 bytes. Ratio 100.00%

so as you can see only first file (Textures.pak) is decompressed
and it's doesn't matter if you join all Textures*.pak to one file and made bg3.xtl from it

Do something! Anything!
 

On Textures.pak, Textures_1.pak, Textures_2.pak and Textures_3.pak
To everyone here plus repackers (I won't say, you know yourselves) who use my tools, I had to set aside time and download 120GB game just so I could tweak a 1KB script by add a few lines (only 6 lines were missing), just simple copy and paste from original script then the script will work.

XTool has so many ways of enabling anyone of any knowledge and skill level to be able to make a plugin that can work on game without requiring the author to every time provide and provide, I thought that making bms2xtl and adding generate feature would at least bridge the gap but it doesn't seem to be case, I spent time on making the documentation, explaining things, I made the source code available but then what's the point? And don't bother replying to this thread (we only post methods here), I'm just venting don't mind me.

I actually hope all games use leviathan level 9 so compressing and repacking games becomes pointless.

Baldurs Gate 3

Bink2 videos just stored as plain text.
https://i.imgur.com/fzQhGm9.png

Unfortunatelly the XTool Bink video plugin will not work here for "GUS_CGI01_Part2.bk2". I tested both versions of the plugin and get extraction errors, not matter what settings I use (c/--diff).
For "GUS_CGI01_Part2.bk2" you can go the old way of manually patching. The diff file is 15.1mb.

You can unpack the file with the above modified bms script. Just make sure you null the entire stream in "Data\Gustav_Video.pak" before making the repack and don't forget to patch the file back after installing with either xtool or quickbms.

So basically extract "GUS_CGI01_Part2.bk2" out of the file and patch the entire stream out. Manually make a diff file for it and for the modified "Gustav_Video.pak" use XTool bink plugin.

As for the audio files, they contain wem's, but wemtool can't do anything here.

Edit:
bg3.xtl
zlib

How big is the original video file?

Please may you set the --diff parameter to 100p to hypothetically see if the XTool plugin version will accept the stream at all? I'm thinking XTool may just be seeing how large the patch is and skipping - from your descriotion, bink pack seems to handle it alright.

The file is 1.08gb (1169576856 bytes).

BPK works but it will break the file on unpacking stage (crc error).

I already tried to set --diff=100p but to no avail, the ratio is just 100% for some reason (STDIO).
The old plugin works but it's the same as normal BPK, it will break the file on unpacking.

Tried different chunk sizes aswell, from c256mb up to c4gb.

Edit: I got some things mixed up, but nevertheless it doesn't work. Here is the full test.

STDIO plugin
Non-STDIO plugin
And it does not matter if I use xtool stdio mode or not
XTool.ini
bk2.ini, bink.exe, binku.exe, xdelta3_dll.dll are present

Btw, with -c2gb I get a access violation error in xtool.exe. I have to write -c2048mb to get the 2gb chunk size.

Edit 2: Sample https://pixeldrain.com/u/bnfw8nDp

The process is similar to Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 (2017)?

Try this for MMLC2:

https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-41735.html

Hey guys, I tried the methods mentioned in the forum to compress Scarlet Nexus, but didn't get the required(smaller) file size. Is there any method to compress?

Did you use the Plugin for Scarlett Nexus.. that will help, it was posted by Masqerade i believe.

ScOOt3r

Use the XTool Unreal Engine 5 plugin by Razor12911, or the Unreal Engine UTOC/UCAS database maker.

I've posted a database in the past but it's probably outdated now.

Baldurs Gate 3

Does anyone know how to correctly uncompress the PAK files in the State of Decay2 game?
Quickbms + SOD2.bms =7.6 gb > ~11 gb
Xtool + lz4hc:l9 + sod2.xtl = 7.6 gb > 8.1 gb

Tested file pakchunk000004-WindowsNoEditor.pak

NOTE.
Applying Xdelta has no effect