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

[K4miKaZe]

Here are the first two Resident Evil games that are not on the list, they are full without anything ripped. Read notes if you wish to get them lower in sizes.

Title:           Resident Evil 0: HD Remaster
Version:         v1.0 (includes all costume packs dlcs)

PC:              4 Cores 3.9GHz (up to 4.3GHz) + 8GB Ram + SSD

Ripped Files:    Nothing (Read Note to get it up to 1.03GB lower)

Original Size:   11.6 GB
Compressed Size: 5.64 GB

Method:          xZLib+srep:m3f+lolz:d128:mc1023 (Xtool 0.9)
                
Compress Time:   3 hours 27 minutes (12464.60 sec)
Install Time:    6 minutes

CRC Checked:     Yes

Note:
The movies on this game comes duplicated in 720p and 1080p, if you want
to make the total size smaller you have a lot of options here.
1. You can only use the 720p movies located in /nativePC/movie folder
2. Or you can use only the 1080p movies located in /nativePC/movie/pc
3. If you are unsure if you want to play in 1080p or 720p but want to use
only the 720p videos you can just copy and replace the 1080p with the 720p.

This is also great for creating separated bin files with only movies and
installing them as components. Just make a backup and play around.

Title:           Resident Evil: HD Remaster
Version:         v1.0

PC:              4 Cores 3.9GHz (up to 4.3GHz) + 8GB Ram + SSD

Ripped Files:    Nothing (Read Note to get it up to 5.32GB lower)

Original Size:   17.6 GB
Compressed Size: 9.89 GB

Method:          xZLib+srep:m3f+lolz:d128:mc1023 (Xtool 0.9)
                
Compress Time:   5 hours 34 minutes (20087.09 sec)
Install Time:    9 minutes

CRC Checked:     Yes

Note:
Movies on this game are duplicated too as in Resident Evil 0, but on this game
they come in 3 different variations. Read the notes on Resident Evil 0 above
to get a better idea.

/nativePC/movie/00 contains 1080p movies with 20k bitrate (3.73 GB)
/nativePC/movie/01 contains 1080p movies with  8k bitrate (1.59 GB)
/nativePC/movie/02 contains 720p movies with 6k bitrate (785 MB)

As in Resident Evil 0 you have many choices here. The best option i think
is to keep only the 720p videos and copy them to the 00 and 01 folder
so you would not have problems playing at any resolution and safe a lot
of space.

Resident Evil 2&3 coming in a few days, my original Res2 & Res3 games are German versions (bought them 20 years ago when i lived there). The main reason why i dont want to use those versions is because in Germany they are censored, that means without some cutscenes, green blood and much more things due to the German censorship. So i will get first the good versions of those games, this will take me some time. Thinking about that, what makes green blood less in violence than red blood?

[darkwolves]

result is not wrong we didn't even use the same method...
but i am not arguing with anyone nor am i posting anymore repacks due to this same reason...

[Simorq]

Originally Posted by darkwolves

result is not wrong we didn't even use the same method...
but i am not arguing with anyone nor am i posting anymore repacks due to this same reason...

pzlib3+srep:m5f:a1+lolz:dt1:dtp1:dto1:dtm1:dtw1:dtd1:mtt0:mt6:d64m:tt4  h14:fba4096:mc1023:bc8:blr8:bm

I tested it exactly the result was above 4 gigabytes.

Anyway, it does not matter.

[darkwolves]

you are right it does not but..... i have warned against people picking my repacks apart or i would remove them all...so.....

[K4miKaZe]

Originally Posted by darkwolves

you are right it does not but..... i have warned against people picking my repacks apart or i would remove them all...so.....

I don´t know what happened in the past but i dont think that Simorq told that with bad intentions. Sometimes we get things wrong due to our basic english knowledge, we can even offend without intention (at least in my case).What im not finding nice is the removing of the posts giving JustFun now a lot of work to clean up the index.

[Grumpy]

Originally Posted by K4miKaZe

Sometimes we get things wrong due to our basic english knowledge, we can even offend without intention (at least in my case). What im not finding nice is the removing of the posts giving JustFun now a lot of work to clean up the index.

^^ Exactly this

@darkwolves
I can still see all your posts, I have read through a lot of them, I can see you have helped a lot of people and I can also see that a lot of people have helped you.

I have quoted a few of your posts to highlite a few things you have previously said on the forum .....

Originally Posted by darkwolves

oh it won't you can be honest and not be disrespectful at the same time
and people should be mindful about what they say about others
you never know that could be the only person around at the time that can help you..
with problems you may be having with tools
and they likley won't if they do not like you

Originally Posted by darkwolves

i am aways calm nothing i have said was said with malcontent
just being honest is all

What you see as 'critics' and 'criticism' is people being honest.

Originally Posted by darkwolves

wow... looking at all the games and people always wondering....
this should have been done alot sooner this is going to be helpful to so many people

^ and now you have removed that help.

Originally Posted by darkwolves

its cool there is no reason for anything to escalate into a war we are all here for the same reasons

^ this is very important to remember and to heed your own advice.

Originally Posted by darkwolves

really brings me back that one was from my beginning repack days when i didn't know any better lol

Originally Posted by darkwolves

changes made to need for speed rivals

http://fileforums.com/showpost.php?p...&postcount=364

it was brought to my attention something was not right about the game repack
level i investigated and discoverd it was an early crappy incomplete 3dm version
have repacked the full version of the game game different ratio on it now can you please change it to the new info...

^if people didnt 'criticise' your work then you would not have learnt new methods and learnt simpler better ways of doing things.
Dont take things to heart, people are not here to disrespect your work, they are here to learn, as you yourself said 'we are all here for the same reason'.

'JustFun' has put a lot of time and effort into the Index and I'm sure he is very proud of his work and would be disappointed to now see some of it has been a waste of time, just like everyone who puts a lot of time and effort into creating the 'Best Compression Methods'

Please rethink the deletion of your posts and think about allowing me to 'restore' them all, I can do that quite easily.

[darkwolves]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

^^ Exactly this

@darkwolves
I can still see all your posts, I have read through a lot of them, I can see you have helped a lot of people and I can also see that a lot of people have helped you.

I have quoted a few of your posts to highlite a few things you have previously said on the forum .....




What you see as 'critics' and 'criticism' is people being honest.



^ and now you have removed that help.


^ this is very important to remember and to heed your own advice.




^if people didnt 'criticise' your work then you would not have learnt new methods and learnt simpler better ways of doing things.
Dont take things to heart, people are not here to disrespect your work, they are here to learn, as you yourself said 'we are all here for the same reason'.

'JustFun' has put a lot of time and effort into the Index and I'm sure he is very proud of his work and would be disappointed to now see some of it has been a waste of time, just like everyone who puts a lot of time and effort into creating the 'Best Compression Methods'

Please rethink the deletion of your posts and think about allowing me to 'restore' them all, I can do that quite easily.

very well you can restore them but i will not post any more in the future

[darkwolves]

Originally Posted by K4miKaZe

I don´t know what happened in the past but i dont think that Simorq told that with bad intentions. Sometimes we get things wrong due to our basic english knowledge, we can even offend without intention (at least in my case).What im not finding nice is the removing of the posts giving JustFun now a lot of work to clean up the index.

i am not being dishonest about that repack it really is that size i am looking at it now what i don;t understand is why mine is smaller

[K4miKaZe]

Originally Posted by darkwolves

i am not being dishonest about that repack it really is that size i am looking at it now what i don;t understand is why mine is smaller

At first, thanks for letting Grumpy restore the posts.

Different sizes could be so many things, maybe you have ripped some files? Also from my little experience, lolz should not give so hugh differences and not always higher means better (got some games on lolz with some mb less on low settings then on higher settings, strange...). I think the best thing is to know first how much GB the game has after installing, this way you know if your total game size matches Simorqs one, if not it could be dlcs, language files, etc..

I dont think that nobody here was saying that you were dishonest, simorq only said that it was wrong because he tested it too, i think he used your method and said that something was wrong, sometimes we can have even a typing error (3 is next to 4 on the keyboard). I dont have any of the Devil May Cry games, so i cant look to it too, never liked those games hehehe.

Do you actually check for crc on compressions? Sometimes it can happen that ultraarc doesnt include all files without giving error. I usually do a sfv file from the original install and check it on the repack (it tells if there are bad or missing files).