Newbie Question Thread

[murphy78]

Hi, I've been very curious about repacking games. I'm not interested in spreading my own repacks or anything like that. I am just obsessive about archiving the latest versions of my games when I download them and I want to take up very little space.

I've played with a couple tools like xtool and diskspan_GUI and they work a bit but I don't really grasp everything very well. I would like to know if it is generally a good idea to reflate, srep, and then compress the files. Could someone help me with some advice and maybe a small basic packer and unpacker script? I saw another person's example but it only had the arc/lolz combination. I admit I don't really know much about lolz. I've read a comment from someone saying that the tool was old and that people mostly stopped using it.

Thanks for any help people could give in advance.