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

[KaktoR]

ANNO 1800
Update 18.0

 20:37:16 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1a-01.bin was: xtool:c1500mb:lm:mbk2:df20p+xtool:dd3
 20:37:16 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1b-01.bin was: xtool:mflac,l8+xtool:mzlib:mreflate+xtool:dd3+4x4:lzma
 20:37:16 - Selected ARC/SPLIT method for Data1c-01.bin was: xtool:dd3+4x4:lzma/$mp3pack=7zdll-pm:m0=mp3det:m1=packmp3c/$bpkpack=bpk
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 00:12:23 - Overall input size: 101.44 GB
 00:12:23 - Overall output size: 30.63 GB (Ratio 30.20%)
 00:12:23 - Overall conversion time: 03:34:59

Notes: 
- bpk was used on bink1 files which are located in data3.rda
- You have to use -lm for bk2 plugin if you don't have 64GB RAM
- The following files contain bink videos: data3.rda, data11.rda, data12.rda, data13.rda, data16.rda and data18.rda. Use quickbms with "-f "{}.bk2,{}.bik"" file mask to extracrt just bink1/2 files.
- Use XTool erase to create xtl file and zero the files out of the game archives.
- Use XTool decode + xtl file to patch the files back afterwards.
- Some rda files also contain WEM files. You can use wemtool there.
- The language files also contain WEM files, but they are PCM, so you msc/xtool:flac on them.