XTool (2020) 0.8.9

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Changes

- updated library support
- updated command line parser
- included x86 build
- fixed depthing issues

Notes

I have added 32-bit build as requested but you'll have to use x86 libraries or find a matching pair of x86/x64 libraries. You can get these from github of a project under the releases section.
The versioning is brought back to the format of 1.0.0 instead of the build number as requested.

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Changes

- added library support
- added compress, decompress, encrypt, decrypt, hash, delta functions (used by library)
- added lzo codec placeholders
- fixed oodle bug
- fixed lz4 bug
- removed libdunia codec

To everyone

This is the final major update of xtool, this is a tiresome project and from now onwards it will only be getting minor updates and bug fixes. If you're worried about support for games released in future which xtool has no support of, I have added 3 ways of adding plugins to xtool and that's either by a database, a configuration or a plugin that is written in Delphi or C++ (a well written documentation that explains how these work is underway).

I removed libdunia because this codec is not suppose to be part of xtool, I added it become some scene groups were on the roll in bypassing Denuvo so I thought they have this one in the bag but turns out people have to wait a little longer which gave me time to finish library support. Library support is basically dlls written to add additional support to xtool without updating the main project. Think of it like the CLS of Xtool so be sure to check Plugins thread for the separate plugin.

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- added oo2ext* dll support
- updated search support

To everyone

If you left a post and I didn't reply to or acknowledge, I'm a bit busy and I spend way less time on forum.

Regarding the project. I don't plan on making a 2021 release of xtool, the 2020 is more of a final release and it will only receive minor updates and bug fixes with no new features. If there is a game that requires support, you need to check the plugins that are designed for xtool. I'll be focusing more on this. For the next few days I shall be giving out updates until Christmas so if there is a major feature that you need to be added in xtool leave a post and I'll probably add it.

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Changes

- added temporary libdunia codec (thanks ProFrager and FitGirl)

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- fixed search/config support bug (thanks dixen)

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Changes

- updated search/config support

Notes

You can now use database files (*.xtl) posted in this thread to precompress games which the program does not have a native support for.

An example is Far Cry 5, the game is lz4 compressed and as there is no universal scanner for these streams, you can use a generated database to precompress the game.

Results on farcry5.dat:
Tested 1 file, 16,292,024,225 => 11,422,856,623 bytes. Ratio 142.63%
Testing time: cpu 11.25 sec/real 111.17 sec = 10%. Speed 102.75 mB/s

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Changes

- added database search
- updated zlib scanner
- fixed reflate bug
- fixed 2GB memory limit

Notes
Database search is a feature similar to configuration support, a demonstration on Far Cry 5 and Watch Dogs Legion will be posted to show how it works.

Updated zlib scanner to eliminate some pesky false positives that cause reflate bugs, verification of reflate removed and should work faster now.

2010_R2 update broke reflate, not sure if you noticed but it's now fixed.

Report made by Kaktor on some file that gave outrageous ratios.
https://fileforums.com/showpost.php?...&postcount=559
Turns out the issue was caused by this
https://community.idera.com/develope...ream-2gb-limit

So I created a custom TMemoryStream that can handle more than 2GB data in x64

Код:

Compressed 1 file, 26,336,816 => 3,013,659,460 bytes. Ratio 11442.76%
Compression time: cpu 0.19 sec/real 11.60 sec = 2%. Speed 2.27 mB/s

Tested 1 file, 3,013,659,460 => 26,336,816 bytes. Ratio 11442.76%
Testing time: cpu 0.09 sec/real 3.05 sec = 3%. Speed 8.62 mB/s

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Changes

- added zstd codec
- added lz4, lz4hc, lzna, mermaid, selkie, hydra, leviathan codec placeholders
- added configuration support
- added xdelta support to handle crc mismatch streams

Notes

Configuration support is basically telling xtool how to find streams via an ini file. An example is included (-msr3remaster), I'll document its usage in the next release.
The oodle precompressor in xtool is still inferior to the side project, I'll work on it in the next release.

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Changes

- added kraken codec
- fixed depthing issues

Notes

This doesn't detect kraken streams as the side project because I opted for speed but this will change in future once I figure out how to properly deal with the codec

Kraken comes with a level option which is used like this "-mkraken:l4" this is only if you know what level was used to speed up the process but if you don't know what level, you can just use kraken plainly like this "-mkraken" and xtool will try all possible levels until it gets the right one. If two levels were used then the method should look like this "-mkraken:l4,l5"

the deduplication applies to all codecs xtool has so if a game was compressed using kraken and it has many repeated streams, that should give you more speed.

the oodle in xtool doesn't require you to rename the dll therefore if "oo2core_9_win64.dll" ever gets released, xtool should be able to support it.

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Changes

- added reflate forced verification
- updated deflate scanner
- fixed depthing issues
- fixed low memory mode issues
- fixed hanging issues when encoding