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FitGirl continued to experiment and improve her compression skills, sharing the results in public. However, with larger games, the ‘savings’ easily expand to dozens of gigabytes.Īfter this initial release, many more followed. The game was losslessly compressed from 250 MB down to 69 MB. The first repack was a copy of Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions. Then I decided to continue,” FitGirl says. “I decided to upload my repacks to a few Russian trackers and they were met with sympathy. Being born in Russia, she picked local torrent trackers as a start, and not without success. FitGirl decided to make the leap from being merely a personal archivist to a ‘publisher’ of repacks on pirate sites. However, as time went by FitGirl noticed that some of her own releases were slightly smaller in size than the repacks available in public. FitGirl Goes PublicĪt this point, repacking was still strictly for personal use. But I quickly fixed those and started making repacks on almost a daily basis,” FitGirl recalls. “While my first repack looked pretty much like the current ones, inside it was a mess. Roughly a week later, the first homebrew repack was ready. Instead of relying on 7-Zip, FitGirl became serious about compression and started learning and experimenting. These were much smaller than the ones she had made and that’s when things got started. While FitGirl was building a personal home archive, she (we will use this pronoun) stumbled upon public repacks released on pirate sites. “I was using 7-Zip back then and thought that there was nothing better in terms of compression.”

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“In 2012, probably, when I started making an offline collection for myself,” FitGirl tells us. As the site’s FAQ clearly states that the gender issue is irrelevant, we began at the origins.

To find out more about this largely unknown figure – who uses the likeness of Amélie – we reached out to FitGirl. But whether FitGirl is he or she or they in real-life, our interest was piqued. It’s an intriguing handle in a niche that’s more often associated with chubby guys. When we compiled our list of most visited torrent sites earlier this year, FitGirl Repacks was one of the newcomers. While there are several active repackers, there’s one who has climbed through the ranks like no other – FitGirl. Repacks can be made from legitimately purchased games but, in pirate circles, they come with a crack to remove protection.

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For pirated games, this solution comes in the form of ‘repacks’, which are essentially compressed versions of full games that work just like the real thing.

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This is a problem for people that have bandwidth caps or those who have limited storage or archive space.Įvery problem has a solution, of course, especially in a pirate ecosystem where copyright laws are ignored. However, it does take up digital resources, as some games can be well over 100 gigabytes. Downloading a pirated game doesn’t cost a penny.