Masked Compression (Ultimate compression in one go)

[panker1992]

its not the masks that yield problems its tools that arent updated,

precomp refuses to see headerless zlib streams and mad max has them.

you need to use brute force for that to happen


Hello Amsal

[kenzo34]

Hello panker1992.
Your update will be welcome.
nice to see you on your post

[Scanno]

Hi, sorry to do a useless post for many of you but i'm a little confused by so many corrections and fixes that were posted along in this thread

Dunno where in this thread, at some point somebody posted a compressor using this string:

ultral3 = msc_frog+srep+delta+lz77:d800m:fb=273:mf=bt4:mc=10 00000:lc=4:lp=0/$void=srep+zstd/$deflate=reflate+srep+delta+lz77:d800m:fb=273:mf=b t4:mc=1000000:lc=4:lp=0

It went all well, but i could not unpack it because of some msc_frog error.
Also couldn't see which installer package would have worked with that algorithm, noone works from the ones i tested

And then i downloaded from the first post the archive v2.5, but my question is which one is the more updated (first post, or page X for example)?
How many installer scripts are made to support this compression methods?

Thank you Panker1992, you sure made it simple, and i'm eager to start doing my backups



P.S.: I'm beginning this journey to pack games in italian like my steam drm free games to have a backup which doesn't involve any drm...
I also extracted and understood the inner working of many repacking releases like c***x, c**epacks, fitg*** (these are the most complex, and the ones that makes sense among all, i was impressed by bedlam redux release that involved some custom made executables). I'm a first timer, learning for personal scopes, i wish i had some knowledge to share but you all know it better than me

[Gupta]

It went all well, but i could not unpack it because of some msc_frog error.
Also couldn't see which installer package would have worked with that algorithm, noone works from the ones i tested

You can use this:
http://fileforums.com/showpost.php?p...&postcount=541
http://fileforums.com/showpost.php?p...&postcount=553

P.S.: I'm beginning this journey to pack games in italian like my steam drm free games to have a backup which doesn't involve any drm...
I also extracted and understood the inner working of many repacking releases like codex, corepacks, fitgirl (these are the most complex, and the ones that makes sense among all, i was impressed by bedlam redux release that involved some custom made executables). I'm a first timer, learning for personal scopes, i wish i had some knowledge to share but you all know it better than me

Don't take names of warez group, u may get banned, Forum rules

[Scanno]

Oh okay, sorry will never do that again... thanks for the advice
I named them not for the illegal content, rather was curious about what people use most, and i'm of course centered about knowledge in compression and packaging, not warez

I will read those links now

[Scanno]

Hi, sorry to bother again, but i'm unsure if it is a well known bug or just my inexperience with InnoSetup.

I used the blackbox script you suggested me some post before and i found that for some reason if i put some spaces in {#AppName} the window wpSelectDir (with the folder selection) just skips to Tasks selection.

Then i used a name that has no spaces in it, and everything went well...

Then i started to translate the script in italian, and suddenly start skipping again...

To me is unknown why, i started debugging with breakpoints here:

//-------- Second Page --------\\
if CurPageID=wpSelectDir then begin

Then it seems that the pointer CurPageID >SKIPS< the constant wpSelectDir without any good reason (since there no compilation errors).
Are there any requirements that has to be met in order to NOT skip the folder selection screen by default?

Is there any other script released compatible with Masked Compression that use a more linear approach in the windows rather than a stupid pointer and some "if cycle" to hide or show controls?

Or someone has ideas about why this is happening?

NEVERMIND: Using Inno Setup 5 Enhanced Unicode somewhere in this forum seems to have fixed all the problems... thank you for reading anyway

[marwenho]

The compress is done successfully, I built the setup.exe
and move the data1.bin to the "output" directory ... when I run the setup
the game installs without any problem, when i checkout the installation folder
I found all the files of the game + two temp folders ... when i delete them
the game continues to work without any problem ... i want them to not be in the installation folder , so I deleted them from "Mask Data Compression" after moving the data1.bin to output folder (Windows Phone Skin) , now when i install the game , the installation doesn't complete and it shows me an error ' data unpacking error...' something like that

It is my first time using this, I followed the steps mentioned in your video
but it seems there are some parts not mentions and are important
Help!

[EzzEldin16]

panker and razor and fitgirl i learned almost everything about compression and data packaging THANK YOU

[sunnygb]

Thank you @panker1992 for this wonderful tool, I a beginner and this has solved a lot of my compression problems,
The only Thing now that bothers me is File Splitting so that i can put in my media Discs.
Can you help me with Data.bin splitting using Your Mask Compression or Inno Setup Disk Spanning or some other tool? I will be very thankful to you

[MCWRX]

Hi. When using lc / lp / pb parameters I get "write error (disk full?)"

When I remove them from arc.ini, it is OK. Any ideas?

[External compressor:xz]
header = 0
packcmd   = xz a -txz -an -mcrc=0 -m1=lzma2:d400m:fb=273:mf=bt4:mc=1000000:lc=8:lp=0 -mmt=4 -mx9 -si -so <stdin> <stdout>
unpackcmd = dec x -txz -an -y -si -so <stdin> <stdout>

[Gupta]

Originally Posted by MCWRX

Hi. When using lc / lp / pb parameters I get "write error (disk full?)"

When I remove them from arc.ini, it is OK. Any ideas?

[External compressor:xz]
header = 0
packcmd   = xz a -txz -an -mcrc=0 -m1=lzma2:d400m:fb=273:mf=bt4:mc=1000000:lc=8:lp=0 -mmt=4 -mx9 -si -so <stdin> <stdout>
unpackcmd = dec x -txz -an -y -si -so <stdin> <stdout>

for lzma2, lc+lp cannot be larger then 4.

[MCWRX]

Originally Posted by PrinceGupta2000

for lzma2, lc+lp cannot be larger then 4.

thank you.

One more thing, when I try to unpack the archive, I get "Unsupported compression method srep:m3f:a1:l512"

This is my .bat file

-msrep:m3f:a1:l512+delta+xz

And arc.ini

[External compressor:srep]
;options  = l%d (minimal match length, default=512)
header = 0
packcmd   = srep64 {options} $$arcdatafile$$.tmp $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp
unpackcmd = srep64 -d $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp $$arcdatafile$$.tmp

[External compressor:xz]
header = 0
packcmd   = xz a -txz -an -mcrc=0 -m1=lzma2:d200m:fb=273:mf=bt4:mc=1000000 -mmt=4 -mx9 -si -so <stdin> <stdout>
unpackcmd = dec x -txz -an -y -si -so <stdin> <stdout>

I copied dec.exe (for unpacking) to my script folder and defined it inside the script

#define XZ

#ifdef XZ
Source: ISDone\dec.exe; DestDir: {tmp}; Flags: dontcopy
#endif

#ifdef XZ
    ExtractTemporaryFile('dec.exe');
#endif

Thanks in advance.

[Gupta]

One more thing, when I try to unpack the archive, I get "Unsupported compression method srep:m3f:a1:l512"

Copy and extract cls-srep.dll instead

[MCWRX]

Originally Posted by PrinceGupta2000

Copy and extract cls-srep.dll instead

it is there from the beginning. It is not the first time I use srep.

[L0v3craft]

Hi guys, I downloaded the BlackBox_2.5.1 from page 38. It works but there is a little bug in the script !

It creates the desktop shortcut in both these cases:

1. If you don't check the box "Create Desktop Shortcut"

2. If you check the box "Create Desktop Shortcut"

And obviously it must creates the icon only in case number "2." . Can someone solve this bug/problem ? Thanks !