Dragon Unpacker

[grieve[Q2C]]

Every real mapper feels sometimes the urge to rip the resources of other games and use them for his own game, right ?

There is a bunch of programs I have used, like GFE. Good little program, but rather old and no longer updated, supports older game file formats. Not sure if it can be still found on the net.
XWE supports a wide range of formats, but it's a really crappy and buggy program. It does the job, but it sucks.

www.doomworld.com/xwe/

Other stuff like UTX-Viewer is limited to a special game file format (Unreal).

But all this seems to be obsolete. I think I found the best game file extractor program.

This one is really leet. It's freeware, but looks like professional software.
It supports these games and formats.


       The 11th Hour .GJD
Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings .DRS
Age of Empires 3 .BAR
Age of Mythology .BAR
Alien vs Predator .FFL
Alien vs Predator 2 .REZ
American McGee Alice .PK3
Armored Fist 3 .PFF
Battlefield 1942 .RFA
Black & White .SAD
Black & White 2 .LUG .STUFF
Blood .ART
Blood 2 .REZ
Bloodrayne .POD
Breackneck .SYN
Civilization 4 .FPK
Comanche 4 .PFF
Command & Conquer: Generals .BIG
Commandos 3 .PCK
Conflict: Freespace .VP
Cyberbykes .BIN
Daikatana .PAK
Dark Forces .GOB
Darkstone .MTF
Delta Force .PFF
Delta Force 2 .PFF
Delta Force: Land Warrior .PFF
Descent .HOG
Descent 2 .HOG
Descent 3 .HOG .MN3
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive .PAC
Deus Ex .UAX .UMX .UTX
Dig It! .XRS
Doom 3 .PK4
Duke Nukem 3D .ART .GRP
Dune 2 .PAK
Dungeon Keeper 2 .WAD .SDT
Earth Siege 2 .VOL
Electranoid .RES
Emperor: Battle for Dune .BAG .RFD
Empires: Dawn of the modern world .SSA
Eve Online .STUFF
Evil Island .RES
Excessive Speed .SYN
F22 Lightning 3 .PFF
Fable: The Lost Chapters .LUG
F.E.A.R. .ARCH00
Freedom Fighters .TEX
Freespace 2 .VP
Fuzzy's World of Miniature Space Golf .RES
Giants: Citizen Kabuto .GZP
GTA3 .IMG/.DIR
GTA: Vice City .ADF
Gunlok .DAT
Half Life .PAK
Hands of Fate .PAK .TLK
Harbinger .SQH
Harry Potter .UAX .UMX .UTX
Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.2 .PAK
Heretic 2 .PAK
Hexen 2 .PAK
Hidden & Dangerous .DTA/.CNT
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin .TEX .PRM
Hitman: Contrats .TEX .PRM
Hooligans .X13
Hot Rod American Street Drag .ROD
Indiana Jones 3D .GOB
Interstate '76 .ZFS
Interstate '82 .ZFS
Jagged Alliance 2 .SLF
James Bond 007: NightFire .007
Lands of Lore .PAK .TLK
Laser Light .RES
LEGO Star Wars .DAT
Leisure Suite Larry: Magna Cum Laude .JAM
Lemmings Revolution .BOX
Line of Sight: Vietnam .ZA
Master of Orion 3 .MOB
MDK .SNI
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault .PK3
Metal Gear Solid .MGZ
Monkey Island 3 .BUN
Mortyr .HAL
Moto Racer .BKF
Myst IV: Revelation .M4B
N.I.C.E. 2 .SYN
Nascar Racing .DAT
No One Lives for Ever .REZ
No One Lives for Ever 2 .REZ
Nocturne .POD
NoX .BAG/IDX
Operation Flashpoint .PBO
Painkiller .PAK
Patrician II .CPR
Port Royale .CPR
Postal .SAK
Purge .REZ
Quake .PAK .WAD
Quake 2 .PAK .WAD
Quake 3 Arena .PK3
Quake 4 .PK4
Qui veut gagner des millions .AWF
Rage of Mages .RES
Rage of Mages 2 .RES
realMyst 3D .DNI
Revenant .RVI .RVM .RVR
Rune .UAX .UMS .UTX
Sanity Aiken's Artifact .REZ
Serious Sam .GRO
Serious Sam 2 .GRO
Shadow Warrior .GRP
Shogo .REZ
Sin .SIN
Spellforce .PAK
Star Crusader .GL;.PAK
System Shock 2 .CRF
Terminal Velocity .POD
The Lord of the Rings: Battle for the Middle Earth .BIG
The Movies .BIG .LUG
The Sims .FAR
Theme Park World .WAD .SDT
Thief .CRF
Thief 2 .CRF
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 .PAK
Total Annihilation .HPI .UFO
Total Annihilation: Counter-Strike .CCX
Tribes .VOL
Tribes 2 .VL2
Trickstyle .PAK
Tron 2.0 .REZ
Undying .UAX .UTX
Unreal .UAX .UMX .UTX
Unreal 2 .UAX .UTX
Unreal: Return to Na Pali .UAX .UMX .UTX
Unreal Tournament .UAX .UMX .UTX
Unreal Tournament 2003 .UAX .UTX
Vampire: The Masquerade .NOB
Warlords Battlecry .XCR
Warlords Battlecry 2 .XCR
Who wants to be a millionaire .AWF
Xatax .RES
Zanzarah .PAK


Thought I'll share, if you don't know it.
Here is the homepage.

www.elberethzone.net/index.php?page=dup5&language=en

[grieve[Q2C]]

I made a quick count ... that's only 142 games on the list.

We Quakers are used to our PAK files, but most game developers decide to invent their own container file formats for their games.
One tool for all of them ..... seems useful to me.

With this program you can open the container files of 142 games and extract the bitmaps and wav files and whatever else you think is of interest, then convert it and use it in Quake 2.

Imagine all the stuff which is out there .... to my knowledge noone has ever used textures of UT2003/2004 in Q2 yet, and that's only one example.

If you own any of the games on that list and also map for Q2, you may try out this little toy.

[Derimok]

You would have to get permission of course to use the content you extract :)

[grieve[Q2C]]

;D

not sure, kold.
I think when you call or mail a gaming company to request permission for using their textures in Q2 DM map, they will just laugh at you. they will see you as a Don Quixote - like figure.

using textures, commercial or non-commercial ones, in a free community map shall be part of the creative freedom we have.

I would rather ask the creator of a freeware texure set for his permission if he demands something like this in the textfile that comes with his set.
just to pay him the due respect.

but asking a gaming company .... nah.
who has ever done something like that ?

is planetquake not the keeper of legality in the Quake scene ? and were not also maps LOTW which used textures of other games ?

somehow I'm pretty sure the authors did not call the developers to ask for permission.

to use textures of other games is a mere nothing and should be considered as such.

[Derimok]

I guess so, but there have actually been problems in the past with q2 mod projects being shutdown by id software for using textures from their other games. I think they dont really care too much about the odd mp map using them now through...