Compressing files

[leo_s_smith]

is there a program or a tutorial or something about the way people compress their files in riped games?i want to compress some really big files.please help!

[robo989]

I dunno mate,

I do know that a few years back the groups used to encode the audio in mp3 for games. You would then run a program that would decompress all the tracks into PCM as what the game would use...

A game called Anno 1602 did this, it was about 50MB and then nearer 400mb when decompressed.

But I don't download that sort of thing anymore ...few years older and richer so....

I wouldn't bother trying any of that anyway since its a lossy format + its only for pcm audio, all stuff these days is already compressed...

You could try a program called "7-Zip" it attains the highest compression ratios (better than ACE\RAR\ZIP\etc). Its CPU heavy but you won't find a better program, + its free

[leo_s_smith]

im currently using kgb archiever which is the best.achieved almost 45% ratio in applications and even better in documents but i need more =(

[wildwing]

uharc

[DABhand]

I can see this thread being closed.

[Joe Forster/STA]

No idea what "really big files" means, I don't think I've ever seen files larger than 4 gigabytes (file size limit for usual 32-bit applications). However, RAR can process (uncompressed) files and (compressed) archives up to 8 exabytes (64-bit file sizes). That should be enough for a few decades or centuries!

[leo_s_smith]

i already tryied uharc but with no success any tutorials?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Unm, like reading the UHArc documentation first? uharc a <archive name> <file name pattern> [<options>] or similar syntax for adding files into an archive. Beware, it will take a lot of time; if I'm not mistaken, even much more than with RAR, which is also very slow at maximum compression mode!

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by leo_s_smith

the way people compress their files in riped games?

Joe your slacking a bit :P

[Joe Forster/STA]

I rip my games, too. Install, backup main game files (EXE's and DLL's), apply latest official update, backup (new) main game files, apply crack, extract registry entries and RAR the whole thing with maximum compression. And keep applying official updates (and reRAR'ing stuff), as they are released. What's the problem with that?

[DABhand]

Its ok if its for yourself.


But if hes asking how do others do it ala rips, which is a warez issue :P


Either way hes got a rip of something sometime from someone or somewhere and now wants to do the same.


As Grumpy said in another thread, tis a fine line.

[Grumpy]

@Dabhand
Yes it is a fine line, but if people dont specifically say they 'downloaded' something then they are within the rules.
Technically he could have seen the files anyway, at a friends house, at school or work etc.
So until they are silly enough to dob themselves in we really have to give them them the benifit of doubt and take their questions as being legit, even if we feel they may have infact downloaded it.

[leo_s_smith]

i didnt download anything i just want to send big files like home made videos or trainers and games I MAKE to friends and i cant compress them enough.i tryied kgb which compresses to 25% ratio applications but it's really slow for a laptop