Suggestion to Add an Option To Find Identical Files Between the JP and EN Versions and Symlink Them to Save Space

[Home-Rowed]

Suggestion to add an optional feature to find identical files between the JP and EN versions and Symbolic Link them to save space. This would be especially useful on Steam Deck running Windows as it would only have up to 512GB, but most would likely dedicate at least half of that to SteamOS, if not more. And loading off an SD card doesn't seem to work well, it always hangs in the NGS loading screen for minutes, and sometimes the connection times out, base PSO2 works from SD though. So the only way to reasonably have both JP and EN versions on Steam Deck, would be to combine the ~80GBs of common files between the two versions. If Tweaker already has a database of file hashes from both versions, it seems feasible to implement such a feature, delete the identical files from one of the versions, then Symbolic Link version that was kept to the other location. Then, if a file later gets updated to be different between regions, then have Tweaker identify the file, delete the Symlink, and download the file from that version. Of course, if the hashes still match between file updates, then keep the Symlink.

I know I've already asked this on Discord before, but I thought I'd make an official request. If it's rejected, that is fair, and I'll stop asking about this.