Press, press---compress!!!

[techno_geekyguy]

Compressing softs????
Any softies that would compress a games of gbs into mbs(like 3 gb game into 700 mb)...
If not, how do the pirator's do so...
I've seen in shops San Andreas being sold in just a cd nd GTA 4 in 2 DVDs{I didn't jst c, I got them 2}...

[Rahim]

Thats a little hard to achieve. As for pirates, they remove multimedia contents(i may be wrong).

7z gives a better compression ratio than rar/zip but the former is not THAT famous.

[Anorion]

^he's right, there are a number of approaches, but usually they pull tricks like remove the video demos or reduce the quality of all the images and sounds.

[CA50]

game cd generally uses UHARC compressing tool, it is a command line program. you can give it a try.

[Kl@w-24]

1. They resample the videos to a lower quality.
2. Some/all of the audio is removed.
3. Some/all videos are removed.
4. After that, the files are compressed using UHARC (most common).
5. The resulting data is packed into a ZIP/RAR/7z file for release.

[paper_heart_21]

try UHARC...it is most used for compression of data......!!

[comp@ddict]

San Andreas in CD not possible, the best compression-full game has been done by the reputed "KAOS" who got it just at 900MB.

[ico]

Originally Posted by a_rahim

7z gives a better compression ratio than rar/zip but the former is not THAT famous.

7z gives better compression ratio than ZIP, but not RAR.

Originally Posted by Kl@w-24

1. They resample the videos to a lower quality.
2. Some/all of the audio is removed.
3. Some/all videos are removed.
4. After that, the files are compressed using UHARC (most common).
5. The resulting data is packed into a ZIP/RAR/7z file for release.

yup, in simple words. This is known as a "game rip."

[Krow]

Originally Posted by ico

7z gives better compression ratio than ZIP, but not RAR.

Any proof for the same? In my experiments with both the file formats, I have found that on an average, 7z format consumes about 5-20% less space.

[Rahim]

^Even i was speaking from THAT experience (remember that magazine of yours?)
Anyway, maybe the results depend on the type of files/contents to be compressed and is not generic.

[Krow]

WinRAR wins rarely. When it does, it does by a small margin. Not worth the money we have to pay for it IMHO. 7-zip = FOSS and also > WinRAR.

[Dangerous Dave]

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[Tron91]

I once downloaded Hitman Blood Money which takes more than 2 Gigs on uncompress. But download size was about 400 or 500 MB. Mind it though it took me more than 1 hour to uncompress all the files.

The approach was using a mix of UHARC and Class inject files. UHARC works better on multimedia files than other compressors. But you will need a lot of MS-DOS batch files for this.

[techno_geekyguy]

Originally Posted by ico

7z gives better compression ratio than ZIP, but not RAR.


yup, in simple words. This is known as a "game rip."

7z is far better than winrar in matters of compressing

[Raaabo]

^^ True, but I still love WinRAR. And it's bugware, so it doesn't stop working... gotta love it

[pauldmps]

While I actually can't say what the pirates do. But while uncompressing the games, if you look carefully the things happening :

1. They doubly compress files - one time using 7 zip & once using UHARC.

2. They generally delete cut-scene & intro videos which take up a lot of space.

3. They re encode the in-game music into something smaller to pack.

4. They use some sort of "file-injection". I don't know what it is or what it does.

[pagol123]

i saw a cd of 700 mb containing full gta sa when you extract it it become 4 gb. the compression is used mite be winrar

[parthbarot]

UHARC does that, but i think 7-zip is the best. Try both and decide which gives better for your need.