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Changes
- added advanced configuration based plugin support
- added UI mode when xtool.exe is launched with xtoolui.dll present
- added skip verification mode
- xtool now enforces w15 deflate stream detection by default
- fixed oodle scanner exceptions when incomplete stream is detected
- fixed issue with zlib codec not accepting streams from database plugins
- updated command line syntax
Notes
advanced configuration plugin is a way of writing more complex ini files for stream detection without the need of coding skills or the need of creating a library based plugin.
spidey plugin is an example, regular configuration files could not add support for this game however, advanced configuration allows this and here's an example of how that looks like
Code:
[StreamList1]
Name=lz4
Codec=lz4
BigEndian=0
Signature=0x1000352415344
Structure1=Signature(8),Count(4),Unk1(4),Unk2(16)
StructureN=DPos(8),CPos(8),DSize(4),CSize(4),Unk3(8)
StructureS=Stream
CounterStart1=1
CounterEnd1=Count
CounterStep1=1
StreamPosition=CPos
StreamOffset=0
CompressedSize=CSize
DecompressedSize=DSize
Condition1=
The user interface mode has been added and it's not meant to compete with tools like DiskSpanGUI or other similar programs but it's meant to help newbies operate the program as everything is made as simple as possible. The program can still be useful for regular users too, you can use the user interface mode to get theoretical outputs without doing actual (pre)compression, if you set output to none (leave blank in cli mode) and enable skip verification then essentially, you are performing a scan on the input (similar to what Drop and Scan for Zlib does) but for all supported codecs.
An example is Cyberpunk 2077 as shown below.
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From here, you can find out the output size if you were to do precompression (in about 5 mins or less, all depends on drive speed).
More uses? Well people have a problem deciding how much chunk size to use, you can change the chunk size and see how the stream found or how the size differs to decide what chunk size to use.
The UI is a bit borked at the moment but the next update will improve upon it.
xtool enforces w15 streams because I figured out that this is what causes reflate to produce crc errors because there are more false positives this way. So how does this affect results, it doesn't because 99% of games use w15 anyways except Dishonored 2 and Dishonored Death of the Outsiders (set w10 for them)
Syntax has been updated as per request from Cesar82:
--dedup can also be -dd
--dedup=#, -dd#
--dbase, -db
--diff=#,-df#
--verbose, -v
--skip, -s