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TradeMark
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Find hidden treasure -game

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http://modinfo.unknown-files.net/advent ... er_game.7z

Do you think you are elite enough? Oh yes... you are just a little noob... You really think you can find the hidden treasure... Only true elites can find it...

Or... is that right?

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Lindir The Green
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Post by Lindir The Green »

If I knew what the treasure was I'd be able to find it...
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TradeMark
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Post by TradeMark »

Oh yes... only true elites finds it....
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Peet
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Post by Peet »

Oh, must be speedmetal then.
SuB-ZeuZ
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Post by SuB-ZeuZ »

yay

YOU FOUND THE LOLLIPOP! - 93bytes :P

Wasn't that hard to find... just extract it with winrar, then repack it with winrar and excluding all the folders: et voila, you have it.
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TradeMark
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Post by TradeMark »

We have found elites...
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Maelstrom
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Post by Maelstrom »

Done, whats this next mission thing?
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Post by kuqa »

SuB-ZeuZ wrote:yay

YOU FOUND THE LOLLIPOP! - 93bytes :P

Wasn't that hard to find... just extract it with winrar, then repack it with winrar and excluding all the folders: et voila, you have it.
True elite? :D

Just extract it excluding folder paths ;)

Dont try to make everything as complicated as possible :P
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rattle
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Post by rattle »

"Find the lost supernoob"
Nah I'd rather get rid of 16^4-2 folders.

Yeah extract that stuff and do a search for files >0 bytes.
You should have put some 1-byte repetition 20 gig file in it to prevent people from extracting.
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Post by Dragon45 »

My strategy was to extract the files twice in the same place. the second time it asked me whether or not I wanted to overwrrite the file 8)
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Post by LathanStanley »

rattle wrote:"Find the lost supernoob"
Nah I'd rather get rid of 16^4-2 folders.

Yeah extract that stuff and do a search for files >0 bytes.
You should have put some 1-byte repetition 20 gig file in it to prevent people from extracting.
no you see, winrar, and zip and stuff make a "library" and refer to it by 16 bit (or more) hex code...

usually the libraries are 32-64 bit each...

thus, if you can break an archive that is say, 5 megs into 64 bit chunks, and then refer to them by 16 bit chunks, (allbeit probably only 1/4 of the data will fit into those chunks) you effectivy take that 5 megs into:
5*.25 = 1.25meg (will be compressed) at 1/4 size (64/16) = .3125 megs
leaving a filesize of 3.75+.3125 = 4.0625 megs... + the library files for the archive refrences 64bit *x number refrences, about 1/5 the compressed data, sooo 4.0625+1.25/5 = 4.0625+.25
which yeilds the total archive size of 4.3125 megs. (a reduction of .6875 megs or about 15%)

to take a single byte, in each folder and attempt a librarical compression, is well, impossible.. not to mention that every folder's data will be represented by 1 byte of data as well... :lol: it'd actually make the damn thing BIGGER!..

now, say if you put a 67108864 bit hex in each folder and they were all IDENTICAL, you could theoretically reduce a file from Y*x+x*8+x*8+Y bits of data down to x+Y+x*8+x*8+(header) bits of data, where x is the # of folders, and the first 8 is the filename of each folder and the second 8 is the root directory of each folder and Y is equal to the bit hex file in each folder, and teh (header) is the data of the file that denotes the archive and its compression method, approx 1 kilobyte or 2048 bits....


say there is 4096 folders used, (that is ALOT)

the filesize uncompressed is 67108864*4096+4096*8+4096*8+67108864 = 274877972480 bits (2 bits to a byte soo...) = 137,438,986,240 bytes.... uncompressed (128.0000 Gb)

or compressed at 4096+67108864+4096*8+4096*8+2048 = 67180544 bits or 33,590,272 bytes. (32.0342 Mb)

the other option is a smaller file, and about 10 times as many folders...
say you use a "common" 65536 byte file, (131072 bits) and 65536 folders.

This yeilds: (after lots of calculations)
Uncompressed:
8591114240bits or 4295557120bytes or (4.000 Gb)
compressed it is :
1247232bits or 623616 bytes or (609 kb)

to push more folders would reduce the compression ratio to an even worse extreme, and to increase the filesize would help more.... but meh, there's a different equation to maximize them both, but I'm tired of thinking...

oh well...

you get my point though, 1 byte, would phail! but >30,000 bytes within >65536 folders..., would, eff someone up who has to compress/uncompress it :wink: :lol:
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Post by TradeMark »

What the hell are you talking about... i didn read a shit of it, but still...
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Post by Comp1337 »

tl;dr
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