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Old 10-05-2025, 11:19
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Originally Posted by FitGirl View Post
There is a heavy chance that the extractor you use for DAT is actually not simply extracting wav files, but converts them from something like ADPCM encryped wavs to simple PCM wavs, hence the inflated size after final compressor. ADPCM was pretty popular in Mafia 1 times.

And thanks for pointing to bzip3, will include it into my bruteforcing queue.
maybe, who knows... it would be strange, not to say bizarre, but the inflated size can also be explained by its own proprietary compression. since there is this same compression in the other files that bloat when extracted

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