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

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Could you send me a sample of this bk2 file?

I messaged you but I'm not sure how I can see if it sent or not so here's the link just in case.

https://letsupload.co/3yy0f/BK2.7z - 300mb

There's varying sizes of files in there so you can get an idea of what came with the game. In total, there's 1.7GB of bk2 video.

[Masquerade]

Total unpacked size: 9.22GB

Compression as follows:

• *.bsa =
  

  pZlib3:e+srep:m3f:l512+lolz:dt:dtb1:dtw1:dtm1:dto1:dtd1:mtt1:mt4:d64m:fba4096

• *.bik =
  

  bpk

• *.wav =
  

  msc:wav=1:tak=9+srep:m3f:l512+lolz:dt:dtb1:dtw1:dtm1:dto1:dtd1:mtt1:mt4:d64m:fba409

• *.mp3 =
  

  msc:wav=1:tak=9+srep:m3f:l512+lolz:dt:dtb1:dtw1:dtm1:dto1:dtd1:mtt1:mt4:d64m:fba409

• Everything else:
  

  srep:m3f:l512+razor

Total packed size using above methods: 5.41GB

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

I messaged you but I'm not sure how I can see if it sent or not so here's the link just in case.

https://letsupload.co/3yy0f/BK2.7z - 300mb

There's varying sizes of files in there so you can get an idea of what came with the game. In total, there's 1.7GB of bk2 video.

Thanks.

I was able to pack them into a archive using binkpack, but the problem is that the ratio is always 100%. I looked through file headers and they are fine. So maybe some special codec or something, if it's even possible with binkvideo.

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Thanks.

I was able to pack them into a archive using binkpack, but the problem is that the ratio is always 100%. I looked through file headers and they are fine. So maybe some special codec or something, if it's even possible with binkvideo.

Good to know I'm not going insane (yet)!

It's strange, because it's the only Saints Row game in the series that uses Bink2 instead of Bink. Maybe that's just because Bink2 wasn't around when the other games were made, but then why not make all of the video Bink2? There's still old Bink files in the game (2 .bik files).