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

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Unfortunately I cannot actually run XTool kraken with this game, even with c64m and lm, I run out of memory (64GB ram). Strange, I know.

E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -mxtool:martha data.arc "pack\*.pak"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 22 files, 17,081,159,054 => 41,484,322,538 bytes. Ratio 242.87%
Compression time: cpu 20.36 sec/real 3523.12 sec = 1%. Speed 4.85 mB/s
All OK


E:\_Compress\#FA_example>arc.exe a -ep1 -r -ed -s; -w.\temp -moo2reck data.arc "pack\*.pak"
FreeArc 0.67 (March 15 2014) creating archive: data.arc
Compressed 22 files, 17,081,159,054 => 40,296,161,641 bytes. Ratio 235.91%
Compression time: cpu 18.69 sec/real 3810.50 sec = 0%. Speed 4.48 mB/s
All OK

Both are slow af but xtool performs a bit better

[KaktoR]

Elden Ring

For bdt files you can use xtool:kraken,l6

For video files just use storing, m1 or whatever. They have a new header (KB2n) which I've never seen before.

[:( Sad8669]

Method : xtool_zlib+srep:m3f:l512+lolz:dtb1:d128m:mt4:mtt0:mc1023
Compression Time : 8 Hours 27 Minutes and 24 seconds
Decompression Time : 5.3 Minutes (4T)
Initial Size : 6.39 GB
Final Size: 3.50 GB

[Masquerade]

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One [v1.04]

Ripped credits video.

xtool[zlib+reflate]+srep+lolz/$mp4=srep+zstd

26.6GB ---> 17.2GB

[Masquerade]

Bravely Default II

xzstd+srep+lolz/$awb=srep+lzma2

Use libzstd v1.4.5 for precompression.

You can rip the movies folder since it's dupe data. Movies are already included in the main game PAK file.

12.6GB ----> 8.1GB

[kuyhaa]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Bravely Default II

xzstd+srep+lolz/$awb=srep+lzma2

.

12.6GB ----> 8.1GB

I use xtool 0.4 srep+lolz got 9.7gb pak file only. Whats wrong ? Need decrypt ? can you share the arc.ini xzstd and file

[Masquerade]

kuyhaa
Use libzstd v1.4.5 as I mentioned.

[Masquerade]

Carto v1.0.7.6

Step 1: Prepare the large bank file to a TMP with DIFFZ patch using this guide.

Step 2: Compress:

srep+lolz/$tmp=oggre

1.9GB ---> 290MB

After archive extraction, follow Step 4 from the linked guide and apply the DIFFZ patch to restore the Master Bank.

[kuyhaa]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

kuyhaa
Use libzstd v1.4.5 as I mentioned.

where i can get libzstd v1.4.5 or know of libzstd ver ? can you share pak ratio of xzstd

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by kuyhaa

where i can get libzstd v1.4.5 or know of libzstd ver ? can you share pak ratio of xzstd

Go to ZSTD github and download the v1.4.5 Win64 zip from the Releases section and extract libzstd.dll.

[kuyhaa]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Go to ZSTD github and download the v1.4.5 Win64 zip from the Releases section and extract libzstd.dll.

found it and solved, thanks

[:( Sad8669]

An update on GOW Soundbanks,


1.01 GB > 0.99 GB, at best.

I will release the tool update later, for those who want to save 20 MB .

that 20 MB might be lost creating delta patches.

A lost cause......

[KaktoR]

Shadow Warrior 3
*.pak - zlib
bpk bugs out on bk2 files

 21:51:45 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1a-01.bin was: xtool:mpreflate+srep+4x4:lzma
 21:51:45 - Selected ARC/DS method for Data1b-01.bin was: srep+4x4:lzma
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 23:14:10 - Overall input size: 23.90 GB
 23:14:10 - Overall output size: 17.83 GB (Ratio 74.58%)
 23:14:10 - Overall conversion time: 01:18:38

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Shadow Warrior 3
*.pak - zlib
bpk bugs out on bk2 files

Also my FMOD method doesn't work on the banks

[pslove]

Hello, what's the best method for Elden Ring? Thanks.