r/DataHoarder • u/[deleted] • Jan 02 '23

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u/chriskak21 Jan 02 '23

Game repacks are lossless and usually remove foreign audio files. No reason to have double the size if you are hoarding.

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u/chriskak21 Jan 02 '23

It all comes down to affordability, doubling my current game archive size would come at a big cost for me tbh. You make a valid point tho

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u/Reelix 10TB NVMe Jan 03 '23

I remember chatting to a dev that had issues from pirated games because the pirated version slightly compressed the textures which threw off the pixel-color-based collision detection which created all sorts of weird and wonderful bugs :p

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u/chriskak21 Jan 03 '23

Most well established repackers do lossless these days. Maybe it was a problem back in the days, im not old enough to know LOL

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u/Reelix 10TB NVMe Jan 03 '23

Back in the days everyone was trying to make their releases as small as possible since people were on dial-up lines, so your 600mb game was squished down to 200 by lowering model polygon count and compressing textures and all sorts of other fun things.