Best Compression Methods for 'Specific' Games. Q&A

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Unfortunately I cannot actually run XTool kraken with this game, even with c64m and lm, I run out of memory (64GB ram). Strange, I know.

E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:martha data.arc "pack\*.pak"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 22 files, 17,081,159,054 => 41,484,322,538 bytes. Ratio 242.87%
Compression time: cpu 20.36 sec/real 3523.12 sec = 1%. Speed 4.85 mB/s
All OK


E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -moo2reck data.arc "pack\*.pak"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 22 files, 17,081,159,054 => 40,296,161,641 bytes. Ratio 235.91%
Compression time: cpu 18.69 sec/real 3810.50 sec = 0%. Speed 4.48 mB/s
All OK

Both are slow af but xtool performs a bit better