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Old 27-07-2023, 00:56
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Plugin update available

Changes

- ue3 codec no longer requires m# parameter to work
- ue3 codec supports lzopro streams (requires lzopro executable plugin)
- ue4 codec speed improvement
- ue4 codec improved detection
- ue5 codec minor bug fixes

Notes

This update is primarily made for the next xtool release (0.7.7) but it should work fine for older versions.

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Thanks for the update, although it seems that some streems were skipped for ue3+lzopro

Code:
Streams: 373 / 1776
Time: 00:00:04 (CPU 00:00:01)

Size: 67.2 MB >> 88.9 MB
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Insomniac Engine

Supported games
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Usage
Place insomniac.ini near xtool.exe along with required libraries and use -minsomniac

Notes
Tested on small sample provided by dixen for testing, not sure if it works for the whole game. This is the first advanced configuration plugin so also not sure if this feature in xtool works without bugs.
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Precompression result

Insomniac R2
38.3 gb to 64.5 gb
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Changes

- Updated Unreal Engine plugin
- Fixed hanging issue in PlayStation archive plugin
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Starfield

Supported games
Starfield (requires liblz4.dll)

Usage
Place starfield.dll near xtool.exe along with required libraries and use -mstarfield+reflate (plugin only precompresses lz4 streams)

Notes

liblz4.dll that comes with xtool seems to work just fine (v183).
You will need to use reflate/preflate, the game uses optimised zlib, zlib-ng to be specific and that makes the zlib method not to work.
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lzopro

Supported games

To be used by old anvil and unreal engine 3 games

Notes

I forgot to post this a while ago but here anyways,

Edit xtool.ini and use -anvil for anvil games and -unreal for unreal engine 3 games while specifying compression level, where level 0 uses lzopro_lzo1x_1_14_compress and level 1..10 uses lzopro_lzo1x_99_compress function for compression.

If level 0 and mostly 6..10 does not work on precompression then you should use uelr as the streams are compressed in such a way that they rely on the work memory buffer left behind by the previously compressed stream (to improve on compression). The streams are compressed in sequence, however it's this improvement that makes it impossible for xtool to work with such streams as because xtool breaks this sequence when it precompresses the streams using multiple threads and if you tried to brute force the work memory to work or if you use xdelta to patch the streams, you will get crc errors.
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Old 08-09-2023, 02:12
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Updated Distant Worlds 2 database for game version v1.1.6.7.
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Bink Video
  • XTool plugin adding support for Bink Video compression.
  • This plugin uses Bink Pack library by ProFrager.
  • Thanks to Razor12911 for the little help.
Advantages of using this plugin versus vanilla Bink Pack
  • Multithreading support.
  • No CRC check fail since XTool will patch the videos as they are unpacked.
  • Incompatible Bink 2 videos (KB2n) are automatically ignored.
Special Notes
  • For Bink 2 videos, you may need to make use of the --diff=* parameter as some patches between CRC imperfect videos to the original state can be larger than XTool's default threshold for patches.
  • You may need to use a large chunk size to ensure all videos are processed. See example below.
Example Usage
  • Extract the attached archive to the XTool folder and use -mbik or -mbk2 depending on your data set.
Updated plugin.

Basically the 'MessageBoxA' was patched out and replaced with some other function from User32.dll. On some bink2 inputs you had encountered some error messages like 'MotionData_warn' or 'err'. I have included two samples for which it is the case. You shouldn't receive error messages anymore with this patched plugin. Inputs which would give these types of errors are just ignored but processed still, but not compressed with binkpack.

Thanks to masquerade and Razor12911.
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Old 05-10-2023, 01:18
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Forza Motorsport 2023

This game uses XMemCompress in its paks (as denoted by Method: 21).

I didn't download the full game, but here's how to make your own database:

1. Download the attached archive. This contains bms2xtl config and required script as well as XCompress plugin for XTool.

2. Extract the archive, and place the following files into the Forza Motorsport root folder:
  • bms2xtl.dll
  • bms2xtl.exe
  • bms2xtl.ini
  • quickbms_4gb_files.exe
  • zip.bms

3. Open command prompt in the root of the Forza Motorsport game folder and paste this command:

Code:
for /r %f in (*.zip) do bms2xtl zip.bms "%f" ForzaMotorsport.xtl
4. Once the database is made, use that along with the xcompress plugin supplied to precompress the game data:

Code:
CMD> xtool precomp -mForzaMotorsport body01_forzafaithful.zip

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Streams: 4 / 4
Time: 00:00:05 (CPU 00:00:00)

Size: 17.0 MB >> 32.0 MB
If you make a full database, consider sharing it here.
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The config version for the plugin above

I've included 64-bit version of xmemcompress, I compiled it a while ago but I didn't post it here.

Forza Motorsport\media\base\Cinematics.zip

xmemcompress -mfmzip:
Code:
Compressed 1 file, 260,317,756 => 1,146,247,029 bytes. Ratio 440.33%
Compression time: cpu 0.08 sec/real 37.12 sec = 0%. Speed 7.01 mB/s
xmemcompress64 -mfmzip:
Code:
Compressed 1 file, 260,317,756 => 1,146,247,031 bytes. Ratio 440.33%
Compression time: cpu 0.00 sec/real 28.70 sec = 0%. Speed 9.07 mB/s
It should also work for Forza Motorsport 7,

the older side project can be found here
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2

This only removes the custom encryption used in the game (Not tested)

Drag and drop the game folder and xtool will remove the encryption and give you the decrypted pak files in output folder which will be your new game files, use -mzlib on them for precompression.

Base\Content\Paks\pakchunk1-WindowsNoEditor.pak
Code:
Compressed 1 file, 291,695,622 => 503,712,687 bytes. Ratio 172.68%
Compression time: cpu 0.05 sec/real 2.30 sec = 2%. Speed 126.91 mB/s
This is not tested and will all depend on your luck.
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Test pakchunk6-WindowsNoEditor.pak

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Compressing 1 file, 630,211,718 bytes
Compressing pakchunk6-WindowsNoEditor.pak 58%
Compressing 630,211,718 bytes with xtool1.exe precomp -mthps12+zlib -d3 -c128mb -t100p $$arcdatafile$$.tmp $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp
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Streams: 46582 / 47129
Time: 00:00:14 (CPU 00:01:53)

Size: 601 MB >> 1.40 GB

100%
Errorlevel=0

Compressed 1 file, 630,211,718 => 1,503,292,444 bytes. Ratio 238.54%
Compression time: cpu 0.28 sec/real 20.72 sec = 1%. Speed 30.41 mB/s
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E:\RePack_tools\xtool_0.7.7\Freearc>arc t data.arc
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) testing archive: data.arc
Testing 1 file, 630,211,718 bytes. Processed 99%WARNING: CRC failed in "pakchunk6-WindowsNoEditor.pak". File is broken.
Tested 1 file, 1,503,292,444 => 630,211,718 bytes. Ratio 238.54%
Testing time: cpu 0.20 sec/real 6.08 sec = 3%. Speed 103.62 mB/s
There were 1 warning(s)
With decrypting PAK - game doesn't launch

Last edited by dixen; 08-10-2023 at 09:41.
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Test pakchunk6-WindowsNoEditor.pak
ofc CRC error because this library decrypts paks only, not re-encrypts them. Re-encryption of this game is not possible.
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Asterigos - Anniversary Update

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Asterigos: Curse of the Stars
  • Place asterigos.xtl and asterigos.key in the same folder as XTool, use "-masterigos+preflate -d1".

Masquerade , tried with this one , but cannot get a good compression ratio !thx for help!
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Masquerade , tried with this one , but cannot get a good compression ratio !thx for help!
Looks like this needs an update?
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