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

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

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No harm in learning, you need wind your neck in!! You too had to start somewhere and I don't see anyone else making frequent contribution to thread!

It's true there's no harm in learning, but posting sub-optimal results (in such large numbers to boot) is hardly worthy of commendation. Contributions of that nature shouldn't be encouraged in my mind, lest you wish to breed and normalise a culture of sub-par work.

[Masquerade]

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Look in the conversion index and you will see plenty of sub optimal results, why don't you go and correct them all since apparently you are now the judge and jury for what optimal results are?

And don't you dare suggest I encourage sub-par repacking, I take immense pride in the work and those who know me know I hate seeing messy and poor releases by other "repackers". Even I make mistakes from time to time. I also didn't see any commendation in my reply, only telling you to not act like a moron. You don't become a perfect repacker overnight and LILU will learn over time.

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

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Look in the conversion index and you will see plenty of sub optimal results, why don't you go and correct them all since apparently you are now the judge and jury for what optimal results are?

I have made a small impact on these sub-optimal results that you mention, but the truth is there's a disproportionately large number of titles that aren't that interesting to analyse and repack, and I've lacked the interest to tackle them. I'm by no means claiming to be a great repacker, of my current body of publicly available work (recorded at the time of publication for each), only 351/464 (75.64%) are record breakers (using other existing published results, with their choice of components as a base for comparison, and including lossless (if I made a lossy offering) to determine eligibility for record status), 27/464 (5.82%) are determined to be equal as a result of variance due to non-deterministic solutions used. Unfortunately then that leaves a massive 86/464 (18.53%) of published works being sub-optimal (largely due to either avoiding heavy compression, like for oodle titles for the sake of install-time, disproportionate (in regards to the install size of the title) additional read/write operations post-install, or a simple lack of ability to re-compress/decrypt assets) but you sure as heck won't find me posting those sub-optimal results here. I don't post the majority of my work here simply due to the fact there isn't much competition to encourage that sort of posting. I choose to just post the more interesting compressions that require specific tinkering to properly process, since I believe that's the sort of content that would be appreciated.

Originally Posted by Masquerade

And don't you dare suggest I encourage sub-par repacking, I take immense pride in the work and those who know me know I hate seeing messy and poor releases by other "repackers". Even I make mistakes from time to time. I also didn't see any commendation in my reply, only telling you to not act like a moron. You don't become a perfect repacker overnight and LILU will learn over time.

Your defense of his posting, at least to me seems to indicate you're supporting those practices, but hey if I'm misinterpreting that, I'm fine with admitting I'm at fault. In my eyes you can either support or condemn an issue, and I don't interpret this as the latter.

I fully support LILU in learning and striving to be one of the greats, but posting en masse a large swath of unhelpful and sub-optimal approaches for a variety of titles isn't helpful, least of all for future members who wish to learn. Asking specific questions, which might also be of assistance to future members is a much better approach, at least in my opinion.

I'll preface this last point, since you seem to be interpreting my comments as inflammatory that my goal is not to insult you or your friends, I'm just laying out what I see. I know you're part of a collective and I'm sure communication is tricky, but if I, by far a novice repacker is besting recent releases with very little effort, that doesn't indicate to me that you're as focused on achieving as optimal a result as you seem to be claiming to pursue.

Finally can I just ask you cool it with the insults? It's not very productive to conversation, and only results in escalating tensions, which I'm sure nobody wants.