Tools for Repacking

[kj911]

wrathma: It is KPS—alias KaPiTaLSiN—who writes this software... (there are so many rare PC/RIP tools from the 1990s and 2000s that remain unpublished to this day.)*

You are right that he could test them more thoroughly, identifying and fixing potential bugs in a timely manner. Xtool turned out incredibly fast compared to the original Precomp; anyone needing only ZLIB recompression would choose it over the classic Precomp. True STDIO support is only partial (with the exception of the custom v0.4.8 fork from one of the members here, plus ProFrager’s v0.4.3 package—though the latter is decompression-only). Both Precomp_Zlib and Nitro_NG do have one advantage: they support multithreading. I wonder if the original Precomp’s single-threaded codecs for MP3, SWF, JPG, PDF, GZIP, PNG, Base64, MJPEG, and BZIP2 could somehow be made to run on multiple threads? (Excluding LZMA.) So far, no one has solved this; we’ve only relied on hacks using auxiliary tools like MTX, PMT, and the like.

Nitro_NG Github repo page.

*ex: mp3pack tools, lossily compress many WAV files to single mp3unpack executable.

Lord.Freddy: Many thanks from new MPZ Wrapper.