Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself

Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:29PM (#18453564)

There was one game (I think one of the really old Unreal Tournament games) that had all the sound files as .wav files, which made the game huge. Many people were still on dialup at the time, so pirating it would have taken over a week to download it.

Well, one pirate group compressed all the .wav files into MP3s and wrote a quick batch script to decompress them all back into the .wav's. Turned a 700 megabyte download into a little under 100 megabytes.

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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by nullify88 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:26PM (#18455255)

Jeez that takes me back. CORE, CLS... Some games were compressed with UHARC or ACE which performed better than other compressors at the time. mp3unpack or WAVE injector would also run to decompress the mp3s or recombine them back in to large solid files. All that while having some banging chip tune and a snazzy animation play. CLASS!

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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by lacker on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:45PM (#18466491)

At that time it might also have been illegal to distribute an mp3 decoder without paying royalties.

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