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It's pretty popular in more casual circles. I'm pretty sure it's still the chosen format for videogame mods and the like
by japanoise 7y ago
It's pretty popular in more casual circles. I'm pretty sure it's still the chosen format for videogame mods and the like
- flatiron 7y agoIt’s the default for piracy too
- sneakernets 7y agoOff the top of my head: * Some VGM formats (game music) are compressed with rar * Certain 90s game mods are compressed with rar * Lots of pirated/cracked games are compressed with rar The main reason I've been told as to why this is seems to be the extensive error correction, which was a big deal with large game files back in the Dial-Up/ISDN days where a corrupted download was more common than now, and old habits die hard.
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