Game Repacking Resources
A collection of resources for learning game repacking, compression and installer creation. If you're new, start with the basics tutorial below, then move on to the newbie Q&A thread. The rest are for when you need specific settings, tools, or advanced guides.
Repacking Tutorial: The Basics
A great starting point for beginners, written by Spinneret. This step by step guide covers the essential tools (Xtool, LOLZ, Srep, etc.) and how to compress games made in Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot, plus custom engines.
Data Dumps
Another project by Spinneret covering data compression, audio codecs, file headers, archive formats, and reverse-engineering notes. Good for understanding the technical side of things.
Newbie Question Thread
Informal Q&A for beginners learning to compress and repack games. You can ask about workflows, tools, installer creation, precompression or anything else. Basic questions are fine.
DiskSpan GUI - ALL in one tool for newbies
An all in one compression and installer tool that handles everything for you, good for beginners.
Mini Compressor
An alternative to DiskSpan GUI, aimed at beginners, but a bit more complex to handle.
How to Use Diskspan GUI v2 Thread for newbies
A step by step walkthrough for setting up and using DiskSpan GUI v2. Read this if you're just starting out with the tool.
Ready Made Installer Templates and a few compressors too
A collection of pre made installer templates and compressors. Saves you from building one from scratch.
Inno Troubleshoot Questions thread
The community helps troubleshoot installer scripts and compilation issues here. Ask here if you have any errors with Inno Setup.
Tools for Repacking
An index of compression and repacking tools: FreeArc compressors, precompressors (XTool, pZlib, OodleRec), multithreading wrappers, patching tools, archive extractors and other utilities.
Bunch of Useful Programs
A big collection of programs and utillities shared by the community. Great for finding extra stuff beyond just compression.
Best Compression Method Index
A useful index for the game specific Q&A thread below. Use this to see if your game has already been discussed.
Best Compression Methods for 'Specific' Games Q&A
The community maintains this. Repackers post the best compression method for individual games, so you'll find game specific recipes using pZlib, srep, LZMA, XTool and other chains.
Conversion Tutorial Index
The main index of conversion and repacking tutorials and the best place to learn the full workflow. It links to guides on speeding up compression, DiskSpan, Inno Setup, Installer Creator, UltraARC, CLS plugins and custom installer scripts, plus dozens of related tools.
Other Resources
- Krinkles - Another data compression forum
- Encode.su - Another data compression forum
- Zenhax - Archived File extraction forum, but it has some very useful infos
- Reshax - Same purpose as zenhax but active
- XeNTaX - Original one died this is backup
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Huge thanks to Spinneret for all the help, couldn't have made this without you! :D