How to save various old versions of the lol clients with minimal disk occupation to replay different versions of playback files?

[JerryLiew]

First of all, the question I want to ask is, what folders/files are required in the lol client if I want to replay the rofl? and then lets discuss how to minimize the Required files. then we can store all of the old version of lol client and rofl files with minimal disk occupation , and we can reply it everytime even after a long time. thanks a lot.

( by the way, I'm very happy to find this tool. I like to save all my game records for future viewing, but I used to do it by recording the screen. It's really cumbersome and takes up a lot of hard disk. LOL ,i will share this toold with my friends, and i am also a programer, hope i can make my contribution for this tool in the future. appreciate)

[ChronoBrake]

Welcome to Riot Games. It's not a Valve with CS:GO where you can replay any recorded file.

[fraxiinus]

I haven't done sufficient testing to know what exact files are required. I do know that you only need the "GAME" folder, you don't need the client.

I haven't been able to try it yet, but this project: preyneyv/league-vcs aims to reduce file sizes of backups by only saving the difference between patches. Maybe give it a shot?

[fraxiinus]

it would require a lot of changes to replaybook, if you could link your C# implementation of league-vcs I can take a look. Or maybe add it as a project to ReplayBook.sln and create a PR

[JerryLiew]

I have found some rules to reduce the patch size between two different version. but I only tested between 12.23 and 12.24. More test in different versions are required for making sure the rules correct. so i have to wait for the game updates, and test again.

[JerryLiew]

hi, lol client has been updated today.so i tested my tool again, it worked well. In my tests which based on three consecutive chinese special edition patches, it can reduce about 37% size of a whole client.but i dont know how it performes in other area's version. by the way, the whole VCS tool was created with about only 100 lines of code. i wrote a winform program to do that. if it possible, maybe you can give it a shot to test the english version, i will upload the souce code to github tomorrow.

[JerryLiew]

https://github.com/JerryLiew/LOL-VCS/tree/master

[fraxiinus]

Thanks for sharing, I'll give it a shot and then try integration

[fraxiinus]

You can track the progress of League-VCS support at this issue: #160

If you have suggestions on how it should work, or features you would like, please post in the issue.

[JerryLiew]

i will, thanks for your working.

[JerryLiew]

Hi, finally I implemented a new tool to do this after a long time,Now it's possible to save client files in a smaller size
[LeagueBackuppper]https://github.com/JerryLiew/LeagueBackupper

[fraxiinus]

Amazing! The file size reduction is really impressive!