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

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by Andu21

-bpk+lolz:d512m:mc1023:ldmf1:ldl5:lde0:ldc0
-Try mp31 or mp32, also srep before/after and lolz at the end.
-msc0065a2:frog9:bmp0+lolz
-oggre:dd+lolz:d512m:mc1023:ldmf1:ldl5:lde0:ldc0
-precomp/lepton(PA)
-precomp+4x4:b16mb:bcm:b32mb

I will test bpk+lolz but I can't imagine there should be any benefit from it.
oggre:dd is even bigger output (without dd option it is smaller).

What is lepton actually?

I don't like to use MSC too much (only use for wav and bmp files actually).

I tested further with mpz and with srep before mpz it is even smaller output with MD5 perfect after unpacking + it made the archive solid (mpz can't made archive solid for some reason (packmp3 is not compatible with srep for some reason)). I made some comparisons.

mpz
Compressed 54 files, 276,552,632 => 234,232,753 bytes. Ratio 84.70%
Compression time: cpu 0.47 sec/real 129.96 sec = 0%. Speed 2.13 mB/s
All OK

srep+mpz
Compressed 54 files, 276,552,632 => 182,162,764 bytes. Ratio 65.87%
Compression time: cpu 0.30 sec/real 109.99 sec = 0%. Speed 2.51 mB/s
All OK

mpz+srep
Compressed 54 files, 276,552,632 => 234,237,165 bytes. Ratio 84.70%
Compression time: cpu 0.66 sec/real 172.05 sec = 0%. Speed 1.61 mB/s
All OK

I will test a bit more.

[Andu21]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

I will test bpk+lolz but I can't imagine there should be any benefit from it.

Considering you mention srep not improving compression, this might be one of those cases that lolz:ldmf1 or RAZOR won't do much.

oggre:dd is even bigger output (without dd option it is smaller).

Same as above then.

What is lepton actually?

Lepton. You can get it from Panker's Masked Compression v3.0.

I don't like to use MSC too much (only use for wav and bmp files actually).

I tested further with mpz and with srep before mpz it is even smaller output with MD5 perfect after unpacking + it made the archive solid (mpz can't made archive solid for some reason (packmp3 is not compatible with srep for some reason)).

If i remember correctly, srep+msc:mp32 can give ratios closer or superior in some cases to mpz, only drawback is that raw1 is disabled. Regarding BMP compression, i think lolz performs better than packBMF, might be wrong though.