XTool 2020 (Main Project)

[elit]

So I was dealing with crilayla in Persona 5 cpk's. Normally for these I just use bms but for the first time I got errors in some archives. So i tried your older xtool that still had it(in fact that's why I kept it). And man.. this thing is fantastic! I bring it because you said you dropped it because of speed. Well I don't know if I can change your mind but let me try.

I tested 4.4gb cpk with :t4 on my 4960k 4.2ghz, which is pretty normal today. Inflating took about 16min and re-encoding about 14min. This gives the speed of around 4.5-5.5mb\s. Look, this is not bad at all! There are lot of crazy people out there abusing lzma/lolz with outright stupid settings like mc1000+ that can slow you to crawl with no benefits, yet unlike those this tool is extremely beneficial.

Maybe you meant that for decompression its too slow. Well, repacking cpk back with single threaded bms is just as slow if not more + all the work around it, I did it this way till now. I even had to use xdelta because bms compressor write something into header that I have not seen in single game yet(other than zeroes, I think it was offset 16 and ~6 bytes long string).

So your cri xtool is excellent, work well and have reasonable speed including de/compression - considering alternatives. Also future CPU cores are only going to be more, not less.

This is my 2 cents, of course you do what you feel like. But there is no other cri tool like this and compression is probably used second most often after deflate. There already are plenty of deflate tools and libraries, even original ztool is just perfectly fine for this. Its those other codecs that would be beneficial. Crilayla, maybe also lzss and certainly yaz0 to name few.

In fact you already completed the work, why abandon it? So for the love of god I beg you, put it back in latest version!

PS(Zstd and lz4 are temporary and will stop working after time because of their retarded design. Not sure about lzo(that is actually a question, why is standard lzo not working in dunia and unreal engines and need special treatment? I thought its a stable design like zlib?). But crilayla, lzss, yaz0 and such should remain compatible.