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

[Masquerade]

FLACs cannot be losslessly compressed, but you can use ffmpeg to recode them into compressed audio formats like MP3

[adrianskiloses]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

FLACs cannot be losslessly compressed, but you can use ffmpeg to recode them into compressed audio formats like MP3

There is an OST DLC that has both mp3 and FLAC versions. So should I ignore compressing the FLAC entirely in that case?

Also is there any guides for compressing Unity games in general?
Thanks

[IRAQIGHOST]

*.pak
xtool:mzlib:mzstd+srep_new:3+LOLZ_NORMAL

other files
srep_new:3+LZMA-MT*

Repack Size: 42 Gb
Final Size: 57 Gb (Deluxe Edition)

[Junior53]

I extract the DataPC.forge file using quickBMS script and after that i try to put them back into where it was using raw injector but it doesn't work out because the all extracted *.dat files doesn't have the same hexadecimals address so my question is how do i solve this & why blocks are isn't the same?

Trying to find the 87.dat block Start Offset and End Offset in DataPC.forge using HxD
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Og...atcpOML7D/view

But it doesn't work out?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ME-...GABq2mgRJ/view

These are the unpack files
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ova...U1YYmZxn-/view

[KaktoR]

Can someone look at this kind of files and what I can do with them? They have "RIFF8-��WAVEfmt".

Sample as attachment

[Masquerade]

Not sure what it is. VGMStream cannot detect what it is and wwise2ogg will only give a 17kb output.

[Masquerade]

Golf With Your Friends (Build 11145867)

xtool_unity_dd5+lolz

4.6GB ---> 2.3GB

[deepshit]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Can someone look at this kind of files and what I can do with them? They have "RIFF8-��WAVEfmt".

Sample as attachment

This is a custom wwise bnk archive.
It contains multiple wem files.
I converted one of them.

[shazzla]

Hi all !

Frostpunk V1.6.1 - GOTY

Latest XTool : Zero inflation. Any kind of variations of ZLib,Preflate,Reflate -cXXmb ,no success.

But this version inflates the data well !

XTool version 0.9

Created by Razor12911

Commands:
e - encode
d - decode

Operations and codecs available:
precomp - data precompression
zlib : loaded
crilayla : not loaded
lz4 : loaded
zstd : loaded
lzo : loaded
oodle : loaded

Options:
precomp - data precompression
c# : chunk size (default 16mb)
t# : number of threads, use p for percentage
dm#: decoding memory [1(low) .. 3(max)]
dt#: diff tolerance (default 0.1)


Other game's ZLib files are OK.
What am i do wrong ?

[kuyhaa]

Originally Posted by shazzla

Hi all !

Frostpunk V1.6.1 - GOTY
XTool version 0.9

try xtool 0.12

[KaktoR]

^
I can confirm.

Sample should be around 106%

[shazzla]

@kuyhaa : i would like to use the newest version,btw thank you !


Sample from GOTY V1.6.1 :

XTool v0.9 :

arc a -mxprecomp32 e:\animations32.arc e:\animations.dat
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: e:\animations.arc
Compressed 1 file, 29,260,989 => 50,177,682 bytes. Ratio 171.48%
Compression time: cpu 0.02 sec/real 12.71 sec = 0%. Speed 2.30 mB/s
All OK

arc t e:\animations32.arc
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) testing archive: e:\animations32.arc
Tested 1 file, 50,177,682 => 29,260,989 bytes. Ratio 171.48%
Testing time: cpu 0.02 sec/real 0.85 sec = 2%. Speed 34.25 mB/s
All OK

Latest XTool :
Nothing.

Edit:

XTool V0.7.1 : Works fine ! Thank you Razor12911 !

[Masquerade]

Marvels Spiderman Remastered [Build 10619930]

Archive 1 content: All files from asset_archive folder except dag, toc and languages.
Archive 2 content: All remanining files except languages.

Archive 1:

xtool_spidey_dd5+lolz

Archive 2:

xtool_reflate+razor-stdio

Languages:

razor-stdio

Repack

Original Size           |   79GB
--------------------------------
Game                    | 37.5GB
--------------------------------
+ Arabic                | +1.1GB
+ English               | +1.1GB
+ French                | +1.1GB
+ German                | +1.1GB
+ Italian               | +1.1GB
+ Japanese              | +1.1GB
+ Polish                | +1.1GB
+ Portguese             | +1.1GB
+ Portuguese-Brazil     | +1.1GB
+ Russian               | +1.1GB
+ Spanish-Latin-America | +1.1GB
+ Spanish-Spain         | +1.1GB
--------------------------------
TOTAL                   | 50.9GB

Thanks to Razor12911 for XTool, ProFrager for lolz, Bulat Ziganshin for FreeArc and srep.

[Wanterlude]

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun [1.17.38829.471]

kraken+preflate+dedup+lolz

4.38 gb => 2.96 gb

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by Wanterlude

[B][U]Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

You can also use this database I made using bms2xtl:
https://bayfiles.com/D6bdh7taze/Boltgun_xtl