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?

Jdownloader2 for the rar packs.

Fmhy for more sites and info

kinda mean you want places but then don't say which place you got

can't help with ps5 places, I get my stuff for ps4 from superpsx

yeah that idiotic rar of a zip of an already compressed pkg is standard on them sites. small price to play to play all the stuff, for free, for ever

edit: forgot to shit on jdownloader, the abomination that shouldn't be let loose on anyone's system. I've had good results with downthemall! for firefox

I'm pretty sure its repack they are trying to find the best way to make it as small as possible.

I'm finding ADM to be fairly useful in handing those BS series of recursively, needlessly packed files, too. 🤙🏼

Also, encrypting a zip/7z/etc. is often one way of avoiding hosts' filters. ☝🏼

IMHO, with the current environment being what it is, private trackers're the most likely forums to find said dumps. Might even check CS for similar, though I'm not a ps5 owner and haven't looked for them myself.

I just searched PS/homebrew old reddit posts one afternoon and figured it out.

Why not just have torrents of the rar files then

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.

This is valuable info, for sure! Thanks! 🤩