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

Masquerade · #11 08-01-2023, 03:25

Watch_Dogs

Full game will ALL languages and ALL DLC content.

Redists and UPlay installer ripped - they are completely unneeded if NoCD is applied.

Requires latest XTool with Watch_Dogs Database and XCompress Plugin thanks to Razor12911.

Requires QuickBMS thanks to Luigi Auriemma and Dunia Engine script.

Thanks to Nicolas Comerci for precomp stdio fork.

Do not use Oggre on the vorbis audio. Encoding is fine, but the decoder will crash.

Conversion Structure:

Archive 1: *.DAT (all except sound.dat, language dats and videos.dat)
Archive 2: All remaining files (binaries and misc documents, *.FAT except language fats)
Archive 3: Bink Videos listed below (pre-packed with BPK)
Archive 4: Videos.dat with BPK compatible videos removed
Archive 5: Sound.dat + English FATs/DATs
Remaining Language Archives: FATs/DATs for extra Non-English languages.

Compress with the following:

Archive 1:
Code:
```
xtool_mwatchdogs_dedup5+lolz
```
Archive 2:
Code:
```
precomps+srep+lolz
```

Archive 3:

Extract the videos.dat with QuickBMS. Use XTool erase command to erase the following videos from the dat:

Code:

0000000000000000.kb2
0000000000000001.kb2
0000000000000003.kb2
0000000000000005.kb2
0000000000000007.kb2
000000000000000a.kb2
000000000000000b.kb2
000000000000000d.kb2
000000000000000f.kb2
0000000000000012.kb2
0000000000000018.kb2
000000000000001a.kb2
000000000000001c.kb2
000000000000001d.kb2
000000000000001f.kb2
0000000000000021.kb2
0000000000000022.kb2
0000000000000026.kb2
0000000000000028.kb2
0000000000000029.kb2
000000000000002b.kb2
000000000000002c.kb2
000000000000002e.kb2
0000000000000033.kb2
0000000000000035.kb2
0000000000000038.kb2
000000000000003b.kb2
000000000000003e.kb2
000000000000003f.kb2
0000000000000040.kb2
0000000000000041.kb2
0000000000000042.kb2
0000000000000045.kb2
0000000000000048.kb2
0000000000000049.kb2
000000000000004a.kb2
000000000000004b.kb2
000000000000004c.kb2
000000000000004d.kb2
000000000000004e.kb2
0000000000000051.kb2
0000000000000052.kb2
0000000000000053.kb2
0000000000000054.kb2
0000000000000055.kb2
0000000000000057.kb2
000000000000005e.kb2
000000000000005f.kb2
0000000000000060.kb2
0000000000000061.kb2
000000000000006b.kb2
000000000000006c.kb2
0000000000000072.kb2
0000000000000073.kb2
0000000000000075.kb2
0000000000000076.kb2
0000000000000078.kb2
000000000000007b.kb2
000000000000007e.kb2
0000000000000080.kb2
0000000000000081.kb2
0000000000000084.kb2
0000000000000086.kb2
0000000000000087.kb2
0000000000000089.kb2
000000000000008b.kb2
000000000000008e.kb2
0000000000000094.kb2
0000000000000095.kb2
0000000000000096.kb2
000000000000009a.kb2
000000000000009b.kb2
00000000000000a2.kb2
00000000000000a5.kb2
00000000000000a8.kb2
00000000000000aa.kb2
00000000000000ad.kb2
00000000000000ae.kb2
00000000000000b0.kb2
00000000000000b6.kb2
00000000000000b7.kb2
00000000000000b8.kb2
00000000000000ba.kb2
00000000000000bb.kb2
00000000000000bd.kb2
00000000000000c0.kb2
00000000000000c2.kb2
00000000000000c3.kb2
00000000000000ca.kb2
00000000000000cc.kb2
00000000000000cf.kb2
00000000000000d3.kb2
00000000000000d5.kb2
00000000000000d7.kb2
00000000000000d8.kb2
00000000000000da.kb2
00000000000000db.kb2
00000000000000dc.kb2
00000000000000e5.kb2
00000000000000e9.kb2
00000000000000ea.kb2
00000000000000eb.kb2
00000000000000ec.kb2
00000000000000f1.kb2
00000000000000f2.kb2
00000000000000f3.kb2
00000000000000f6.kb2
00000000000000fa.kb2
00000000000000fd.kb2
00000000000000fe.kb2
0000000000000101.kb2
0000000000000102.kb2
0000000000000104.kb2
000000000000010c.kb2
000000000000010d.kb2

Pack those videos with BPK (use CLS if you want, I used BPK executable version since I could MT it with mparallel). Those above videos don't require patching. The other videos from the dat get motion_data warning upon packing so packing those is impossible.
Pack Archive 3 with srep.

Archive 4:
Code:
```
srep+LZMA2
```
Archive 5:
Code:
```
rz
```

Remaining Language Archives:

Code:

xtool_mwatchdogs+rz

(don't use xtool dedup since rz has built in dedup)

Final Size

Code:

-------------------------
| Original Size: 28.9GB |
-------------------------
| Game + EN   | 12.12GB |
-------------------------
|      + DE   | +1.21GB |
|                       |
|      + ES   | +1.21GB |
|                       |
|      + FR   | +1.25GB |
|                       |
|      + IT   | +1.20GB |
|                       |
|      + JP   | +1.32GB |
|                       |
|      + PTBR | +1.20GB |
|                       |
|      + RU   | +1.21GB |
| ----------------------|
| TOTAL       | 20.72GB |
-------------------------

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