Tools for Repacking

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WWise PCK BMS Script

• Unpack WWise PCK archives with QuickBMS. This script extracts with file names and folder paths.

By Nicknine / bnnm

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Northlight Tool

• Extraction utility for the following games:
  • Alan Wake (PC/X360)
  • Alan Wake American Nightmare (PC/X360)
  • Quantum Break (PC, possible XOne)
  • Control (PC, possible XOne/PS4)
  • Alan Wake Remastered (PC, possible XOne/PS4)
• Useful because you can extract Bink videos. For example, I extracted Bink videos from CONTROL and then you can compress them with BPK afair.

https://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=21047
By Evin

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WolvenKit CLI

• Command line extraction utility for REDEngine games (e.g. The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk 2077).
• Example usage, extracting Bink videos from Cyberpunk 2077 - BPK doesn't work for them, but this way you can extract the credits video. Gives file names and paths unlike Aluigi's BMS script.
• CLI version works significantly easier than GUI version.

https://github.com/WolvenKit/Wolvenkit

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HPK Archiver

• HPK Archiver for Haemimont Engine game files.
• Unpacking the archives will remove LZ4 compression and you can make new archives with the ability to XDelta from old ones.

https://github.com/nickelc/hpk

By nickelc

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SOS-FoMT-LZS

• You can use this tool to remove compression from LZS archives, such as game files from Soul Nomad and the World Eaters.

https://github.com/JokerDKha/SOS-FoMT-LZS

By JokerD

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Bincat

• Bincat is a simple tool to join together files in a directory into a single file.
• Limited in some respects because it does not run recursively so you can only concatenate files if they are all in the same folder.
• Very niche tool with very interesting uses. In my repacks, I have used this to join together several decompressed LZ4 streams in the engine used by the WRC games (PPKG files) into one big file. You can then compress the big file with LZ4 and HDiffZ it. Hopefully I will explain here one day the process of extracting the streams, decompressing them and then building the new file with Bincat.

http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz/bincat.zip

By Aluigi

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Gust Tools

• Various tools for modding of Gust engine games (think Koei Tecmo).
• You will be particularly interested in gust_pak.exe because it can extract ecnrypted Koei Tecmo PAK archives leaving a JSON file and decrypted files. You can then use gust_pak.exe to rebuild the archive from the JSON file. They are so similar you can XDelta the new file to make it the old file and have a 100% CRC perfect repack. The delta files are only a few kb in size, so I didn't even bother using HDiffZ in this case. It's not worth the long patch generation time.

https://github.com/VitaSmith/gust_tools

By VitaSmith

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Crysis 3 PAK Decryption Tool

• Decrypt PAK archives for Crysis 3 to Zip files. Please note the game does not run in a decrypted state.

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Dunia Tools

• You can use this to unpack FAT/DAT files from Dunia engine games. The following games are supported:
  • Far Cry 2
  • Far Cry 3
  • Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
  • Far Cry 4
  • Far Cry Primal
  • Watch_Dogs
  • Watch_Dogs 2
• Useful if you want to extract audio or Bink videos to compress them better.

https://www.nexusmods.com/farcryprimal/mods/5/
https://mega.nz/file/M5IgRJLJ#3aOH8_...EFJzOvERhJe7Tw

By L Fino

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Watch Dogs [disrupt-r49_b38_2]

• Tool by Rick Gibbed to unpack and decompress Watch Dogs game archives.

https://mega.nz/file/dhQGUbqB#Y4SEYx...U9RaCIFvigNhms

By Rick Gibbed

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arc_unpacker v0.11-0-gff3b9d9

• Unpacker for all kinds of Visual Novels.

https://github.com/vn-tools/arc_unpacker
https://rawgit.com/vn-tools/arc_unpa...r/GAMELIST.htm

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MagesPack

• Unpacker + repacker for games made in the Mages Engine (Steins;Gate, Chaos;Child).

https://github.com/DanOl98/MagesPack

By DanOl98

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The Duper v1.4.01

• You can use this to remove duplicate files from your game. This means there is less to compress. Makes a handy batch file to re-copy all of the duplicated files.
  

  THE DUPER v 1.4.01
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  This app it's used to compare files and the result it's a 2 .bat files
  -Dupe.bat y remove.bat
  
  How to use:
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  Unpack this zip in a folder and copy the 3 .exe where you want analiyze the files, and execute dcmp.exe and wait, when the program finish you found 2 .bat files
  
  If you Execute remove.bat, in this case you delete the duped files
  When you removed the duped files in the installation program make a "call" to the file dupe.bat and you recover the files
  
  Don't forgett to delete the files list_tmp.txt ref_tmp.txt, both are a temps from the analisys
  
  
  This program it's under license FREEWARE. DON'T PAY FOR THAT
  AT NO MOMENT ONE TAKES RESPONSIBILITY OF ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER, OR HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE, LIKE ANY LOST ONE OF DATA

By KapitalSin

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Tools for Yakuza PAR archives

• Used to unpack .par files.

• Creation of .par files with specifed files.

• Supports SLLZ compression (Including SLLZ V2 used in Yakuza Kiwami 2).

https://github.com/Kaplas80/ParManager

By Kaplas80 &
SutandoTsukai181

I don't know if i can post too, delete this if not.

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All contributions are appreciated

I held off on posting this because the par structure of Yakuza games is slightly complex in that there's par archives within par archives so it's not an easy one to recompress.

@all Please feel free to add anything to this thread you think is useful, the whole purpose of this thread is to encourage everyone to learn a bit more about how to compress even smaller.