Star Wars The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition 2xDVD9 to 4xDVD5

[SND]

Excellent, thanks.

[SND]

Well, I just noticed that the recoded video files only contain one of the audio tracks. I think I'm going to mix all of the same language audio together(so that the audio actually plays properly - a bug with the game) and figure out what compression ratio I'm going to need to get the files to fit again.

I thought I was done with this conversion, but apparently not.

[Diesel420]

Used DinhOZinhO2 's method and works flawlessly. thanks

[SND]

You will need to read the rest of the thread to get specific changes to the script but here's a quick outline of what hasn't been posted yet.

You can get to 2xDVD5 by:
Recoding the bik files to 60%(extract all audio tracks, combine/mix the proper audio tracks together(use audition or something like it) eg tracks 0-3 for english, 4-7 for french etc and mix them back into the biks as tracks 0,4,8,12, and 16). This is an enormous amount of work but the videos all play with proper sound(sfx+voice+music+bg are all in one track/language). Each added audio track adds about 1 mb to that video file. To be safe you can use 55%(you can probably use none for script compression if you do this)

Replace the ad videos with blanks(aspyr, nvidia, goldguys, and marketingsizzle). If you want to keep these then all the bik files need to be at a lower compression(more than 50% but less than 60% - you can figure this out mathematically)

repack using lzma/fast with the diskslicesize I posted earlier. There will be no space left on the DVDs(well, about 20 MB on each).



3xDVD5 is much easier as all you need to do is recompress the levelpacks folder(took me about 2h30m). There will even be enough space left over for the patch that just came out. You need to use a diskslicesize that will leave a small file on the third disc in order for the levelpacks and other files to run at the end of the install. Set the compression to none(there is very little space gained by this anyway and it will help you figure out what diskslicesize you need easier).


2xDVD5 will take about 2 days to complete, 3xDVD5 will take about 5 hours.


Edit: actually, you could get this game down to 1xDVD5 if you were to replace all the bik files with dummys and compress the levelpacks folder with freearc.

[kyrotech]

Originally Posted by DinhOZinhO2

Star Wars The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition 2xDVD9 to 4xDVD5

Works fine much thanks sir.

[Smurf Stomper]

I'm playing around with this one at the moment. It looks like you can avoid having to fumble with the audio mixing during the .bik re-coding if you select the 'compress audio' option in the compression options. To keep it from sounding bad I put a value of '0' in the field, and leaving the other fields empty/unselected in the 'compress audio' section.

I just did a full compress of the gamedata (everything except the FMV folder) and it came out to 5,580 mb in the inno script with compression=lzma/ultra64, meaning if it's to go on one dvd9 the video would have to be compressed at 40% to packed into the install with no compression. At 40% compression the video looks pretty bad though, especially on my widescreen monitor.

Doing a video compression test, it looks like .bik videos compress at a 90% ratio on average.

So, this means that a video folder of 6.3 gb can be compressed using Rad Video Tools @ 50% down to 3.15gb, which is then compressed using inno's lzma/ultra64 down to 2.8 gb.

2.8gb videos + 5.6 gb gamedata = 8.4gb, fitting on a dvd9

This is all just preliminary testing I did in the last hour or so, so these are all calculations in progress. Just thought I'd share my findings with the community.

[Smurf Stomper]

Well fooey, I can't get it to quite fit on 1x dvd9, at least not without a) compressing the video down so heavily it looks degraded, and b) having an unacceptably long install.

So I've opted to simply spread it out over 2x dvd9's, leaving the .bik's in uncompressed. Using lzma/fast compression on all game files except the .biks (which I used nocompression on) will let them fit nicely on two dvd9's, with enough space leftover for the v1.1 crack and patch on dvd1.

If anyone's interersted in creating their own version of the original install with pretty graphics, etc, feel free to download the attached inno script pack. Credits of course go to perterf, who's script I modified a bit. (Peter, that's quite a lot you put in the [code] section, I'm impressed!)

[tweak]

I don't know if you guys can help me out.my swfu is about 27gigs when I install it and the attachment I downloaded from here doesn't seem to work.my original swfu installer is russian and it is already a repack but I want to make my installer completely english and repack it myself.the gameplay is all in english tho but I want to have my installer in english.please reply

[pakrat2k2]

you tried the one posted directly above your post, or the one by peterf ??

[Stveboss]

Old games but could do with redoing for the 2 games now if possible by anybody.