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

[KaktoR]

Assassins Creed Valhalla

oo2recm + oo2core_7_win64.dll (only forge files)

Compressed 54 files, 44,889,374,720 => 95,540,304,795 bytes. Ratio 212.84%
Compression time: cpu 258.61 sec/real 13491.23 sec = 2%. Speed 3.33 mB/s
All OK

oo2recm is slow af. I will post final results in the next days if I get some free time (pretty busy atm).

Thanks to my friend Masquerade

[Masquerade]

^^
So basically, this game engine no longer uses LZO which means AFR is useless.

Now this engine uses oodle, and Valhalla has managed to use it without the oodle plugin.

Ubisoft use a different variant of this oodle 7 plugin, which only appears in one game AFAIK. This was probably released as the first iteration of their engine change. I think Valhalla is the first Oodle game that doesn't contain a plugin.

This plugin appears in Ghost Recon Breakpoint, and works on Valhalla as demonstrated above.

Here's the oodle 7 core you must use:

[Snapppr6]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

^^
So basically, this game engine no longer uses LZO which means AFR is useless.

Now this engine uses oodle mermaid, and Valhalla has managed to use it without the oodle plugin.

Ubisoft use a different variant of this oodle 7 plugin, which only appears in one game AFAIK. This was probably released as the first iteration of their engine change. I think Valhalla is the first Oodle game that doesn't contain a plugin.

This plugin appears in Ghost Recon Breakpoint, and works on Valhalla as demonstrated above.

Here's the oodle 7 core you must use:

this game not have no cd dvd (ck)
what the porpose to repack it

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by Snapppr6

this game not have no cd dvd (ck)
what the porpose to repack it

For my own purpose bro. Imagine there are still some people buying games

[Hota]

Based On: Steam Version
Game Version: 4.2.0 (Delux Edition)
Original Size: 2.87 GB
Compressed Size: 687 MB
Method,

*.mp3 - msc

Other Files - xzlib+srep:m3f:a16+lolz:dtb1:d128:mtt1:mt4:mc1023

[xzlib] -mzlib+reflate -c32mb -t100p-1

XTOOL - 2010_R5 (x64)
SREP - 3.92 (x64)
LOLZ - 22c4b (x64)
MSC - 0.0.6.5 alpha2 + pack_TAK v2.3.1.0

Note - Nothing Ripped.

Decompression (Using 4 CPU Threads)

FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) extracting archive: Data_01.bin
Extracted 13,430 files, 716,311,282 => 3,066,831,773 bytes. Ratio 23.36%
Extraction time: cpu 28.80 sec/real 304.68 sec = 9%. Speed 10.07 mB/s
All OK

Install Started  - 12:04:31.74
Install Finished - 12:09:37.20

[Hota]

Based On: Steam Version
Game Version: 1.5.4 (Ultimate Edition + All Languages + All DLCs)
Original Size: 98.0 GB
Compressed Size: 52.8 GB
Method,

*.forge - afr:a2+srep:m3f:a16+lolz:dtb1:d128:mtt1:mt4:mc1023

*.bk2 - bpk+srep:m3f:a16+lolz:dtb1:d128:mtt1:mt4:mc1023

Other Files - srep:m3f:a16+lolz:dtb1:d128:mtt1:mt4:mc1023

AFR - 0.0.2.0a7 (x64) + AFR Patch By Razor
SREP - 3.92 (x64)
LOLZ - 22c4b (x64)
FAZIP - 0.3 (x86)

Data_EN.bin - 2.46 GB (3.21 GB --> 2.46 GB)
7 Other Languages - 5.17 GB (9.34 GB --> 5.17 GB)
All Other Files (85.3 --> 45.1 GB)

Note - Nothing Ripped.

Decompression (Using 4 CPU Threads)

 Install Started  - 14:30:48.42
 Install Finished - 21:21:29.08

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by Ele

how do I download Lolz? I couldn't find any website or download link.

LOLZ library is hosted on Krinkels forum, they changed theur rules so you must contribute to the forum in order to download files.

Because I can't download it and reupload it here (you can get banned for that) you will need to download a "pre made" compressor tool like UltraArc and take lolz_x64.exe from there. CLS-LOLZ (the unpacker) you can get from ASIS script. Then you are sorted.

[Hota]

Based On: Steam Version
Game Version: 2.2.10F
Original Size: 14.9 GB
Compressed Size: 5.07 GB
Method,

All Files - xzlib+srep:m3f:a16+lolz:dtb1:d128:mtt1:mt4:mc1023

[xzlib] -mzlib+reflate -c32mb -t100p-1

XTOOL - 2011_R1 (x64)
SREP - 3.92 (x64)
LOLZ - 22c4b (x64)

Data_01.bin - 11.3 GB (5.12 GB --> 1.58 GB)
Data_02.bin - 4.20 GB (4.87 GB --> 1.66 GB)
Data_03.bin - 13.1 GB (4.94 GB --> 1.82 GB)

Note - Nothing Ripped. There are some *.ogg files, but there was no difference using OGGRE.

Decompression (Using 4 CPU Threads)

FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) extracting archive: Data_01.nano
Extracted 214 files, 1,698,668,663 => 5,121,610,745 bytes. Ratio 33.17%
Extraction time: cpu 33.59 sec/real 149.50 sec = 22%. Speed 34.26 mB/s
All OK

FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) extracting archive: Data_02.nano
Extracted 37,258 files, 1,783,062,442 => 4,877,679,739 bytes. Ratio 36.56%
Extraction time: cpu 50.72 sec/real 423.52 sec = 12%. Speed 11.52 mB/s
All OK

FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) extracting archive: Data_03.nano
Extracted 51,888 files, 1,963,190,702 => 4,942,682,557 bytes. Ratio 39.72%
Extraction time: cpu 60.48 sec/real 391.47 sec = 15%. Speed 12.63 mB/s
All OK

Install Started  - 10:52:27.61
Install Finished - 11:08:40.68

[KaktoR]

I use a different library (998KB) and it works too.

[samadrahman74]

Assassins Creed 3 Remastered (+Liberation) V1.0.3

srep+lolz

20:39:03 - Conversion Initialized at Thu 11/26/2020.
20:39:03 - Starting "Data1.bin" Archive Creation.
02:32:38 - Archive "Data1.bin" Creation Complete.
02:32:38 - Sorting Storage Directories Started.
02:32:39 - Sorting Storage Directories Complete.
02:32:40 - Conversion Finished at Fri 11/27/2020.
------------------------------------------------------------
02:32:40 - Input Size: 39.23 GB.
02:32:41 - Output Size: 16.72 GB.
02:32:41 - DiskSpan LOG finalized.
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[Hexagon123]

Total start size: 29.7GB

Compress with the following:

• .STZ
  

  XTool:c16m,t75p,dm2:zlib+srep:m3f:a2:l256+lolz:mc8:tt4:mt4:mtb512m:d128m:fba4096:dto0:dm00:pc2:bm4:blr4:bll8:blo8:lm0:bc4:cm1:mc256

• .pck (StreamsMulti.pck)
  

  msc+srep:m3f:a2:l256+mcm:t9

• .sp2
  

  srep:m3f:a2:l256+lolz:mc8:tt4:mt4:mtb512m:d128m:fba4096:dto0:dm00:pc2:bm4:blr4:bll8:blo8:lm0:bc4:cm1:mc256

• Rest of the Files
  

  srep:m3f:a2:l256+mcm:t9

Total packed size: 6.4GB

[hwang4]

HI! suggestion for the best method to compress "Twin Mirror"!thx!

[dixen]

Originally Posted by hwang4

HI! suggestion for the best method to compress "Twin Mirror"!thx!

ue4dt+xZlib+srep+lolz

[External compressor:ue4dt]
header = 0
packcmd = ue4dt e -m2 -c512m -b512 0x5ACB2CE4AAD0B4182FA568CBED4C9C1D8C1ECCF06770A26D 8D9015F78B0B067E <stdin> <stdout>

[Masquerade]

This is a fun one! Read the steps carefully!

• This is not MD5 perfect, but completely lossless.
• This works on version v1.10 - but could change on newer versions! I checked the key using at0mos key dumper and it matches with the key in the current build of the below tool.

Part 1 - Decrypt the files:

1. Go here.

2. Download the zip and extract it. You need pakdecrypt.exe.

3. Go to your Wolcen folder, go into "Game".

4. Paste pakdecrypt here and make a new batch file.

5. In the batch file, paste this command:

for %%f in (*.pak) do pakdecrypt %%f %%f.zip

6. Run the bat file (do not run as administrator) and wait for the process to complete.

Part 2 - Preparing the files:

1. Copy all of the old pak files to a separate folder, since we no longer need them BUT it's always good to have a backup of the original copy.

2. Make a new batch file and paste this command:

ren *.zip *.

(this is to restore the .pak extension to the files)

3. Move / Delete the 2 batch files and pakdecrypt.exe (no longer needed)

Part 3 - Compression:

1. Make first archive using these files:

Sounds_MISC.pak
Sounds-WEM.pak

Compress using:

srep+mtx:c64m:tXXX:rz

(where XXX is your thread count)

2. Make the next archive with every other files:

xzlib+srep+lolz

Total Compressed size: 12.09GB

[78372]

Removed:

1. Sound files except english
2. Multiplayer files
3. Support files

Bink files(Output\win32\movies\*): bpk 277MB>>230MB

Everything else: 2.64GB
xtool > zlib+preflate > c256mb : 4.57GB
srep > m3f > l1024 : 3.06GB(Probably, can't remember exact size)
Method 1: 4x4:lzma:64mb:normal:bt4:273:mc1000:lc8 = 1.7GB
Method 2: lolz:dmo0:dto0:mc32:d16m:mtb16m:mt4:mtt1:tt1:fba40 96 = 1.63GB

Total: 1.93GB/1.86GB