I am using WinMPQ currently to open MPQ archives—as I'm sure many of you all are too—but the program doesn't recognize the common.MPQ as a file it can read. Anyone else having this problem and what's in that huge 3.5+ gig file?
Ya I think that's the issue, there was a similar issue with the patch MPQ's in TBC that I remember. We had to use mpqtool and something else for those.
in common.MPQ are textures, models, terrain data, sound files.
I've build an simple mpqViewer in C# on .NET 2.0 using the MpqTool lib, so there shouldn't be any limitation to archive size
you can get it from here:
http://ck-develop.pytalhost.com/mpqViewer.zip
the filter works like you know it from filesystem search, add * at the beginning of the string and we will look for this string at the end of the file names.
e.g. *.blp will show you all .blp files in the archive
to start filtering just press enter
I will delete it in few days, someone may add it to the wow tools on sourcepeek wiki
Didn't have the .Net Framework 2.0 installed but once I did got it working. Thanks!
BTW, only found 85, or so, DBC files total in all the archives. Has the data been consolidated or become obsolete or, perhaps, just server-side only now?
Been a few months since I dabbled in this and seems there's a lot changed! =)
I'm going to get the FTP fixed here sometime in the near future, so that we can start hosting the files here again. Maggi if you'd like throw that link up on the WoW tools page as I'm sure you'll find a lot of thanks :)