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

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by fabrieunko

Hello what would be the best method for icarus? please. thanks in advance

srep+lolz/lzma - devs didn't use compression on their paks.

[hwang4]

hi! need a valid unreal key !

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by hwang4

hi! need a valid unreal key !

What do you mean? This game isn't encrypted.

[hwang4]

sorry !thought it was!

[Masquerade]

ARK Survival Evolved

400GB ----> 38.7GB

srep+lolz
mpz on soundtrack

Compression takes almost 40 hours, not for the faint hearted.

[KaktoR]

400GB... I guess this game reaches 1TB soon

[KaktoR]

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade

oodle kraken 7

pakchunk0_s23-WindowsNoEditor.pak

Compressed 1 file, 8,184,822,018 => 8,551,069,519 bytes. Ratio 104.47%
Compression time: cpu 4.52 sec/real 1049.03 sec = 0%. Speed 7.80 mB/s
All OK

Video files are webm videos

[dixen]

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade

pakchunk0_s5-WindowsNoEditor.pak

Compressed 1 file, 2,076,132,806 => 8,448,777,571 bytes. Ratio 406.95%
Compression time: cpu 1.80 sec/real 492.10 sec = 0%. Speed 4.22 mB/s
All OK

Tested 1 file, 8,448,777,571 => 2,076,132,806 bytes. Ratio 406.95%
Testing time: cpu 2.11 sec/real 344.89 sec = 1%. Speed 6.02 mB/s
All OK

XTool v0.39 + oo2core.dll from game folder

[KaktoR]

Anyone knows what's the point for all the different language movie files in FF7 Remake? I guess only lips movement right?

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Anyone knows what's the point for all the different language movie files in FF7 Remake? I guess only lips movement right?

Yes, US files are for EN and all else is for FR/DE/JP - there are some dedicated videos for FR/DE videos (e.g. credits video).

P.S. do not rip any credits videos since the game actually has an ending scene before the credits show. If you rip the credits video, you lose the ending of the game.

[KaktoR]

Ok then I guess you can rip all the lipsync files out of s21 pak and voices from s23 pak

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Ok then I guess you can rip all the lipsync files out of s21 pak and voices from s23 pak

I've already ripped out the FR, DE, JP voices but didn't touch the lipsync. I cannot imagine it would save much space?

[panker1992]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Ok then I guess you can rip all the lipsync files out of s21 pak and voices from s23 pak

how do you unpack those pak files with oodle support ??

do you know the blocks for languages to rip via hex editor ?

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by panker1992

how do you unpack those pak files with oodle support ??

do you know the blocks for languages to rip via hex editor ?

https://anonfiles.com/V9C101q5wb/unr..._4_0.4.25b_bms

quickbms -l "unreal_tournament_4_0.4.25b.bms" pakchunk0_s23-WindowsNoEditor.pak >> pakchunk0_s23-WindowsNoEditor.txt

This lists the contents and the locations of all the files in the pak.

German Block: 2583541977 - 4031342431

French Block: 4031342793 - 5445490559

Japanese Block: 5445490905 - 6823955647

[panker1992]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

https://anonfiles.com/V9C101q5wb/unr..._4_0.4.25b_bms

quickbms -l "unreal_tournament_4_0.4.25b.bms" pakchunk0_s23-WindowsNoEditor.pak >> pakchunk0_s23-WindowsNoEditor.txt

This lists the contents and the locations of all the files in the pak.

German Block: 2583541977 - 4031342431

French Block: 4031342793 - 5445490559

Japanese Block: 5445490905 - 6823955647

This doesn't work at all, it asks for a key!

thanks for blocks