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

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xtool (0.3.21) + srep + lolz

42.26 GiB >>> 19.4 GiB

Ripped: Non-Eng. Loc., ~10 MiB of startup videos

Note: the entire "sfpaks" folder can be deleted, I'm surprised others that have tackled this title don't seem to know it just contains CRC-perfect duplicates of data contained within the 2 primary "*.pak" archives. In my conversion I unpacked the archives to remove the need for oodle pre-compression, honestly there are only ~200 MiB of zlib/reflate streams (See Figure 1) to be processed which only results in a ~60 MiB improvement (See Figure 2) over just sticking with srep + lolz. In this form there are only ~6 MiB of Oodle streams to be processed.

Interestingly enough I found on my system, when testing for ~1hr to make sure everything worked properly, I encountered fewer stutters during game-play when using the unpacked files.

Figure 1


Figure 2