A byte-level measurement of a live Steam installation of Final Fantasy XI: 66,192 files, 15.15 GB. The .DAT chunk chain derived and closed on 48,757 files, the 22-character manifest checksum broken (MD5 in a permuted base64 alphabet, 126,865/126,865), the audio decoded, and nine ROM indexes shown to be a partition and not a stack.
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