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

[Masquerade]

Martha Is Dead - Oodle Kraken

Compressing 1 file, 2,233,109 bytes
  Compressing pakchunk9-WindowsNoEditor.pak
Compressed 1 file, 2,233,109 => 25,558,801 bytes. Ratio 1144.54%
Compression time: cpu 0.03 sec/real 18.54 sec = 0%. Speed 0.12 mB/s
All OK

Use oodlerec, if you try and use xtool, be prepared to perish

https://bayfiles.com/T2weYdJ9xa/oo2core_8_win64_7z

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Martha Is Dead - Oodle Kraken

Compressing 1 file, 2,233,109 bytes
  Compressing pakchunk9-WindowsNoEditor.pak
Compressed 1 file, 2,233,109 => 25,558,801 bytes. Ratio 1144.54%
Compression time: cpu 0.03 sec/real 18.54 sec = 0%. Speed 0.12 mB/s
All OK

Use oodlerec, if you try and use xtool, be prepared to perish

https://bayfiles.com/T2weYdJ9xa/oo2core_8_win64_7z

E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -moo2reck data.arc "pack\*"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 1 file, 81,670,760 => 113,485,432 bytes. Ratio 138.95%
Compression time: cpu 0.08 sec/real 9.48 sec = 1%. Speed 8.62 mB/s
All OK

E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:martha data.arc "pack\*"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 1 file, 81,670,760 => 113,764,077 bytes. Ratio 139.30%
Compression time: cpu 0.06 sec/real 9.43 sec = 1%. Speed 8.66 mB/s
All OK

Do me a favour and test with this custom xtool db (use -mxtool:martha) and compare with oo2reck. Unfortunatelly I don't have enough free disk space left

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Do me a favour and test with this custom xtool db (use -mxtool:martha) and compare with oo2reck. Unfortunatelly I don't have enough free disk space left

Unfortunately I cannot actually run XTool kraken with this game, even with c64m and lm, I run out of memory (64GB ram). Strange, I know.

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Unfortunately I cannot actually run XTool kraken with this game, even with c64m and lm, I run out of memory (64GB ram). Strange, I know.

E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:martha data.arc "pack\*.pak"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 22 files, 17,081,159,054 => 41,484,322,538 bytes. Ratio 242.87%
Compression time: cpu 20.36 sec/real 3523.12 sec = 1%. Speed 4.85 mB/s
All OK


E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -moo2reck data.arc "pack\*.pak"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 22 files, 17,081,159,054 => 40,296,161,641 bytes. Ratio 235.91%
Compression time: cpu 18.69 sec/real 3810.50 sec = 0%. Speed 4.48 mB/s
All OK

Both are slow af but xtool performs a bit better

[Masquerade]

Carto v1.0.7.6

Step 1: Prepare the large bank file to a TMP with DIFFZ patch using this guide.

Step 2: Compress:

srep+lolz/$tmp=oggre

1.9GB ---> 290MB

After archive extraction, follow Step 4 from the linked guide and apply the DIFFZ patch to restore the Master Bank.