I was having second thoughts at first on releasing this early the second version because there are no available installer to support this yet. I will change the order or even take out the older version once tinfoil/lithium is updated.
Why don't you just put all exe files in one release? There is no reason why you shouldn't use NSZ 2.0 for solid compression too. You named the zip "Ryjin 2 A NSZ 2.0 Converter MOD Early Release.zip" so if you extract it on Windows using right click there will be spaces inside the path breaking your script. Please add support for spaces in file paths. I also noted that if python.exe isn't the default start application for .py files it will open the editor instead of python.exe registered inside PATH. Why do you even still require installing python and its libraries for your tool. You could just ship a portable python version with all the libraries installed with your release like I’ve done it for https://nicobosshard.itch.io/floatmotion portable version. There are even tools like https://pypi.org/project/auto-py-to-exe/ or https://pypi.org/project/PyInstaller/ packing everything into a single exe file so a zip wouldn't even be required anymore. Your shortened NSZ 2.0 changelog should better states something like “Block compression technically supports playing compressed games in the future” as otherwise it could be misleading. Other than that, I really like your tool as it simplifies the process of creating solid and block compressed NSZ files a lot.
If it is illegal because it requires a modified sysmodule (I'm assuming this is the case), wouldn't an easy legal way of doing it be to simply dump the needed files from the system and patch them? Could even be automated from something like Hekate. Or are they doing it using official/leaked SDK tools/info?
Or is the problem that they are including game card keys in their firmware? As some past history has shown, leaking encryption keys seems to be legal or at the very least in a gray area where it's unprosecutable, you can still find the DVD encryption key all over the internet to this day and it's even hosted on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy
Companies tried to have it taken down from sites, some complied, others did not, ultimately nothing ever came of it and the sites that didn't comply were unharmed. Their lawyers probably told them they would lose if they went to court over it.
Last edited by The Real Jdbye,
Removed Ryjin 2 for now: I will wait until tinfoil is updated to support the new nsz
Added Ryjin 1.4 see changelog for new features.
Thanks @nicoboss for the tip last night.
I tried packing all the files into one single exe but the problem is it takes more time for the pc to execute the exe everytime the app is used plus the working folder is now bigger 200KB = 16mb. You can feel the effect when you launch Ryjin 1.4. For now it will remain separated so as not to double the execution time.
Added Ryjin 1.4 see changelog for new features.
Thanks @nicoboss for the tip last night.
I tried packing all the files into one single exe but the problem is it takes more time for the pc to execute the exe everytime the app is used plus the working folder is now bigger 200KB = 16mb. You can feel the effect when you launch Ryjin 1.4. For now it will remain separated so as not to double the execution time.
Last edited by GnK23,
It was removed by blawar according to him "It barely helped speeds and hurt compression ratio"
Source: https://github.com/nicoboss/nsz/issues/6
For solid compression you want to achieve multithreading by compressing multiple games at the same time not by multithreaded compressing a single one as zStandard will just internally make independent blocks for each thread lowering compressing ratio. If this behavior is intended block compression should be used instead. It was a mistake to even add solid multithread compression in the first place.
I see... if that's the case then I will stick with pre nsz 2.0 for now. Until nsz block compression is fully adapted with the installers.
It is difficult to convert solid compression without threading especially if im going to convert only one big file.
You shouldn't as it was removed on purpose and would take less than a minute to add it to NSZ 2.0. Solid multithreaded compressed games DON'T have the quality you would get when compressing them single threaded. It's bad enough it was there in the first place and I highly recommend for everybody solid compressed their games with multithreading enabled to recompress without multithreading. If multithreaded solid compression is really required for some users, we could make a warning to inform the user about its disadvantages. It's like block compression but without any of its advantages and all its disadvantages. It's so dumb but if you really want it, I can add it again with a warning. I highly recommend NOT to use it except maybe to temporary compress a game just to transfer over and then deleting the NSZ file.
Last edited by nicoboss,
Yes true I agree and will add it. However it needs to be made very clear the file generated that way are quite dirty and have a worse compression ratio then without multithreading and the only real reason to use them is because current title installers don't support block compressed NSZ files. Once they do there is absolutely no reason for such ugly compressed files to even exist. Please only use that feature for temporary NSZ files as you definitely don't want to long-term store your games in such a format.
Use https://github.com/shchmue/Lockpick_RCM/releases to dump your keys. Just rename the dumped prod.keys to keys.txt
Last edited by nicoboss,
I already have my prod.keys and whenever the program opens all I get is a blank command prompt window.
Probably the blank command prompt is the result of the decompression for the nsz.exe file I place there. Try to wait for the program to finish loading then it will execute the command. Dont close the program.Yes. But still get no results- nevermind, guess I had to wait a while
Is there any kind of framework required to run this? That may be this persons problem.
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