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Juggernaught
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posted 26 November 2001 00:44     Click Here to See the Profile for Juggernaught   Click Here to Email Juggernaught        Reply w/Quote   
I've been modding for quite a few months now and I haven't figured this out. Why would anyone even need MPQview? When I first started I D/Led it but for some reason it wouldn't work right and froze my comp every time I started it. So I just used MPQ2K to do whatever I needed. So why would I need to use MPQView to extract when I can do this using MPQ2K? Does it make it easier or something?

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jbouley
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posted 26 November 2001 00:52     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
I wasn't aware that one could extract files using MPQ2K.

You can see the full list of files, their paths, and all of that? This is news to me...but then again, every day is a day to learn something new.

How did you manage to make MPQ2K do this? Just out of curiosity...

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Juggernaught
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posted 26 November 2001 00:59     Click Here to See the Profile for Juggernaught   Click Here to Email Juggernaught        Reply w/Quote   
Hehe I think someone didn't read the manual and command parameters for MPQ2K.

The command for extract is MPQ2k E

Example: mpq2k e patch_d2.mpq data\etc\etc

You can list all the files in a mpq by using
MPQ2K L

Example: mpq2k l patch_d2.mpq [subdirectory]

The problem I have found with this is if you try to list all the files they will scroll by so fast you can't see them except for the ones at the end when it quits. So I just learned where all the files I needed to use for my modding were at and wrote down the paths

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masakari
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posted 26 November 2001 04:45     Click Here to See the Profile for masakari   Click Here to Email masakari        Reply w/Quote   
I think it is easier to use and more comfortable because you see (mostly) all included files by only open the archive. So i found faster the file i need.

If mpqview doesn't work you could use mpqedit. I've sayed it more than one time in this forum but nobody heard me .

cu Maskari

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mandzo
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posted 26 November 2001 06:06     Click Here to See the Profile for mandzo   Click Here to Email mandzo        Reply w/Quote   Visit mandzo's Homepage!
i still think the best prog for mpqs is cv5
it doesnt need any list files you can just browse the dirs in the mpq and extract what ever you want

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jbouley
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posted 26 November 2001 11:36     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
quote:
Originally posted by Juggernaught:
Hehe I think someone didn't read the manual and command parameters for MPQ2K.

Considering the fact that I didn't even know what a .bat file was before I began modding D2...and the fact I haven't worked with DOS-dependent programs since the days before Windows ever existed...it's a damned wonder I can use MPQ2K, dc6con, and a lot of the others at all...much less learn how to make them do special stuff.

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For my latest mod (for LoD/expansion), download at http://www.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?/planetdiablo/phrozenkeep/mods/sic_beta.zip - Or for old stuff (for classic D2), visit my orignal mod site at www.planetdiablo.com/sanctuary

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FoxBat
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posted 26 November 2001 12:50     Click Here to See the Profile for FoxBat   Click Here to Email FoxBat        Reply w/Quote   
Use MPQ2K to extract a file called (listfile) with the parentheses. Then rename it to a .txt file. That is the listfile that MPQView uses to find stuff, you can look in the text file and see the paths there yourself as well.

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Syntaks
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posted 26 November 2001 12:59     Click Here to See the Profile for Syntaks   Click Here to Email Syntaks        Reply w/Quote   
And the link for CV5 is dead

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mandzo
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posted 26 November 2001 13:29     Click Here to See the Profile for mandzo   Click Here to Email mandzo        Reply w/Quote   Visit mandzo's Homepage!
well the cs.tu-berlin.de server is down for you can try it tomorow or just tell me your e-mail and i will send it to you

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jbouley
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posted 26 November 2001 14:22     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
quote:
Originally posted by Syntaks:
And the link for CV5 is dead


If you mean the one that I posted in the News on the home page of Phrozen Keep...it worked just now for me. I suspect temporary server problems. But the link itself is still good.

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- JEFF
"A hero is no braver than anyone else. He is only brave five minutes longer."
For my latest mod (for LoD/expansion), download at http://www.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?/planetdiablo/phrozenkeep/mods/sic_beta.zip - Or for old stuff (for classic D2), visit my orignal mod site at www.planetdiablo.com/sanctuary

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Dr Slue
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posted 27 November 2001 03:28     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
Definately put cV5 up on the site j. It doesnt require that annoyingly out of date d2dataexp.txt file. And you can see everything there. As well as view them!
Very easy to use too. For beginners or nay.

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54x
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posted 27 November 2001 04:24     Click Here to See the Profile for 54x   Click Here to Email 54x        Reply w/Quote   Visit 54x's Homepage!
cv5 and me have a very bad relationship. I wuv MPQview

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jbouley
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posted 27 November 2001 11:25     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
Dr. Slue:

I plan to...just need to send an e-mail to the CV5 folks and make sure I'm not stepping on their toes by uploading it.

If they're OK with it, the program will probably be up in my next weekly update. I myself plan to stick with MPQView because I'm comfortable with it...but I like to make sure people have options.

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"A hero is no braver than anyone else. He is only brave five minutes longer."
For my latest mod (for LoD/expansion), download at http://www.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?/planetdiablo/phrozenkeep/mods/sic_beta.zip - Or for old stuff (for classic D2), visit my orignal mod site at www.planetdiablo.com/sanctuary

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