XTool - Successor of ZTool

[Razor12911]

Thanks I'll look into it
I guess those are all the issues

[Razor12911]

can someone bless me with a sample of Dragon Age Inquisition, it's required for development of XTool 2019

[KaktoR]

Lemme download it. I will send you some samples later (if no one else do it).

Did you need any libraries or just archives?

[Razor12911]

The game should be Zlib compressed, I guess only archives. I just need one cas archive, you can run a scanner or something like that to confirm on whether the sample you are uploading does indeed contain zlib streams. If you want to quickly upload the cas file since most definitely they are 1GB, you can really slice the file and give the first 100MB or something like that, I only need it to see the header structure to improve speed for games that use frostbite engine.

[KaktoR]

Ok. Download is on 70% right now.

I have one question: According to the Bethesda BSA extractor, Skyrim Special Edition use lz4 compression, but the game file scanner didn't find anything and I can't find any usefull information about it on the usual sites like xentax etc.

Did you know the trick? Are these archives crypted somehow? Most of the files aren't compressable in the usual way (ratio is always at 99.9%).

[Razor12911]

give sample and the extractor, and I'll take a look at it.

[KaktoR]

Dragon Age Inquisition


Skyrim SE
Skyrim SE BSA extractor

[doofoo24]

@Razor12911 what about encrypted game files like fifa/project car/crysis

[Razor12911]

Originally Posted by doofoo24

@Razor12911 what about encrypted game files like fifa/project car/crysis

https://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=102524
https://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=102461

as for Crysis, if I had an idea as to how it was encrypted, I would have made a tool for it

[doofoo24]

i know the tools for fifa/project car...
i thought the new xtool will work on encrypted files like QuickBMS

[Razor12911]

it could, but as of right now I am busy optimising the code and getting rid of old bugs, main focus is more speed and less cpu/mem usage

[darkwolves]

Originally Posted by FitGirl

Don't expect good ratio, LZNA is the best compression algo in Oodle family.

yes i know this but some compression is better than no compression at all the way i see it

[elit]

Originally Posted by Razor12911

@everyone
I'm now focusing on the main code of XTool 2019, so now it's a good time to mention all the bugs the current xtool has so I can try to avoid as I write the new code from scratch and what new features would you like to be added in the upcoming release.

Perhaps 2 thing's left are lzss and nintendo's yaz0. Very important for some Jap games and especially console roms.
EDIT: also xcompress and endian versatility.

EDIT: Also codecs help is missing, for instance xtool can utilize same :m2, :high, etc. parameters for zlib like ztool does, but I wouldn't know if I was not familiar with ztool from the past.

[amin fear]

Why ZTOOL needs "Visual C++ MSVC**.dll" files for unpacking archives ? is there any workaround for this limitation ?

But XTOOL is standalone & stable.

[deepshit]

Originally Posted by amin fear

Why ZTOOL needs "Visual C++ MSVC**.dll" files for unpacking archives ? is there any workaround for this limitation ?

But XTOOL is standalone & stable.

Xtool needs VC++ 2010.