I found this one place, but it had me downloading 12 individual files in a rar format for one game. It was straight ass at how slow it was, I didn't see anything on the pirate bay or 1337x, where are people finding game dumps?

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well, it may be a hammer and nail thing for me (I work with compression a lot). But different compression algorithms are good at different things. Some solutions do better with text some solutions do better with structured data and some have special features that allow for enhanced compression with better tooling. GZip vs Brotli vs Zstd is a great example. Gzip is good at compressing small, structured data quickly where brotli accells at large text data and zstd is better at structured data and can be enhanced through training on that structure.

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