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

[Danziel123]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

^^
Almost spot on, I would like to make some additions.

The 3GB pak file contains raw WWise audio. This can be packed with msc(tak)+razor.

Most of the game data is stored uncompressed, there is only an incredibly tiny amount of mermaid streams so using any precompressor will have little impact on the end result. These handful of mermaid streams and the start of UCAS archives are becoming more common in Unreal Engine 5 games.

The director's commentary video is KB2i so it can be packed / unpacked with cls-bpk.dll. Little point in using XTool for this task since bpk unpacks the video without data errors and there is no opportunity for multithreading.

The remaining videos are KB2n which is unsupported by bpk (the XTool configuration sutomatically filters these videos). I used the latest BCM (v2.03 at time of writing) by Ilya Muravyov after srep to squeeze a slight bit extra compression.

My size was 12.4GB for:

Primary: srep+lolz
Secondary: msc+razor
Tertiary: srep+bcm
Quaternary: bpk

And the Director's Commentary can be separated to give 10.5GB minimum size.

hello, if you don't mind, could you share the details of what files are included in the first, second and so on lists?

[Masquerade]

^^
Everything you need to know, I have already explained.

[Danziel123]

Maybe someone knows the compression method for the wwe 2k24 game? This is the file for testing
.cak: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bEf...ew?usp=sharing
.pck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iIu...ew?usp=sharing
Thank you

[Hexagon123]

Originally Posted by Danziel123

Maybe someone knows the compression method for the wwe 2k24 game? This is the file for testing
.cak: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bEf...ew?usp=sharing
.pck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iIu...ew?usp=sharing
Thank you

Likely encrypted?

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by Danziel123

Maybe someone knows the compression method for the wwe 2k24 game? This is the file for testing
.cak: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bEf...ew?usp=sharing
.pck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iIu...ew?usp=sharing
Thank you

pck is sound file (riff wavefmt). You can extract with wavextractor or quickbms+wwise.bms, then encode with wemtool (will give you 10mb on this file, 117mb -> 107mb).

cak files hydra/leviathan. xtool plugin is required.

[Masquerade]

Handball 17

srep+lolz/$wav=msc+razor

--------------------------------|-----------
Component                       | Size
--------------------------------|-----------
Game (incl. English Commentary) |   720MB
+ French Commentary             | + 200MB
+ German Commentary             | + 230MB
--------------------------------|-----------
TOTAL                           |   1.1GB
--------------------------------|-----------

[Danziel123]

Maybe someone knows the compression method for the alone in the dark (remake) game? This is the file for testing:
.pak: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUR...ew?usp=sharing
.ucas: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i8s...ew?usp=sharing
.utoc: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Q_...ew?usp=sharing
Thank you

[FitGirl]

Oodle Kraken + Deflate

[Danziel123]

Originally Posted by FitGirl

Oodle Kraken + Deflate

hello, sorry if my question is stupid. Is my compression method correct?

xtool:mkraken:mreflate:dd3+4x4:b64mb:lzma:ultra:bt 4:fb273:lc8:mc1000000:64mb

Thank you

[Masquerade]

^^
Yes.
Banks contain ogg audio.

[Danziel123]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

^^
Yes.
Banks contain ogg audio.

thank you for your answer. Sorry if I ask again, maybe you know the best compression method for Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition? Thank you
here is the example file:
.core: https://drive.google.com/file/d/130A...ew?usp=sharing
.core.stream: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I_K...ew?usp=sharing

[ScOOt3r]

@danziel123
The Method I used for Horizon Forbidden was xtool:kraken+srep+lolz on .core files
@71.8 Compression for a total size of 87.3 GB over 2 data files and 1 optional (digital extras)

-im sure there is a better method but i tried many

it took me several hours to compress as its a HUGE game..

Good Luck

ScOOt3r

[KaktoR]

Use insomniac plugin

I wonder how tf you assume oodle is used...

[IRAQIGHOST]

Horizon Forbidden West

English and Arabic Language

Repack Size: 81 Gb
Final Size: 124 Gb

*.core
*.core.steam

xtool:c32mb:minsomniac+srep_new:393b+LOLZ_ULTRA

I got CRC error with package.00.03.core
I don't know if there are more files get the same error
so I used this method

xtool:c32mb:minsomniac+srep_new:393b+4x4:b96mb:lzm a:ultra:bt4:fb273:lc8:mc1000000:96mb

[Yourname]

Precomp Method for Data_1.bin: • [ xtool:c32mb:mzlib:dd3+srep64:m5f:a16:d1g+delta+exe2+nz64:m16g:br512m:bw512m:p16:t16 ] •

• [ Compressed 39 985 676 945 into 21 599 290 729 in 40m 30.01s, 16 MB/s (4.321 bpb) ] •
• [ Compressed 37 files, 31,702,819,613 => 21,599,290,730 bytes. Ratio 68.13% ] •
• [ Compression time: cpu 382.59 sec/real 3659.56 sec = 10%. Speed 8.66 mB/s ] •

Comp Method for Data_2.bin: • [ msc+srep64:m5f:a16:d1g+delta+exe2+nz64:m16g:br512m:bw512m:p16:t16 ] •

• [ Compressed 625 950 322 into 524 647 451 in 38.03s, 16 MB/s (6.705 bpb) ] •
• [ Compressed 59 files, 668,773,315 => 524,647,452 bytes. Ratio 78.45% ] •
• [ Compression time: cpu 3.53 sec/real 65.00 sec = 5%. Speed 10.29 mB/s ] •

Overall Input Size: • [ 30.15 GB ] •

Overall Output Size: • [ 20.6 GB (Ratio 68.33%) ] •

• [ Data Archiving Files Completed: Total Time: 1:07:48 ] •