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The PCK Tools are a set of programs to explore and extract files from various game resource files.
System requirements:
- Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or higher
- .NET Framework 2.0 (32-bit version, 64-bit version)
- Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Runtime (32-bit version, 64-bit version)
The version for 32-bit systems is included and does not have to be installed.
Features:
The PCK Tools consist of two applications PCK Explorer and PCK Extractor.
The PCK Explorer allows you to browse, preview, view, extract and open (execute) files within an archive. You can view text and images or listen to sounds stored in the archive. Images can be zoomed for viewing and saved in standard formats like jpg, bmp or png. If you want to work with specific files only you can filter the file list (to view images only for example).
You can open archives within the application, via the command line or via Drag and Drop.
The PCK Extractor is the tool for extracting multiple archives in one go. It is available as GUI and console version. Both versions have a command-line interface.
See below for a list of supported file types.
What's new in version 1.2?
- Included 32-bit C++ runtime that is required for certain parts of the package. On 64-bit systems the C++ runtime must be installed separately. For download links see the system requirements section.
- It is now possible that warnings are issued during file extraction. These do not stop the extraction but may be important enough to be reported. The base extractor issues a warning when an image conversion fails. Other warnings depend on archive plugin implementation.
- New archive formats:
- The Longest Journey BBB File (bbb)
- The Longest Journey TM File (tm)
- Arnie Goes 4 Gold SFX File (sfx)
- Snocka Watten SND File (snd)
- Snocka Watten WBM File (wbm)
- New image formats:
- Most of the archive implementations now use code page 1252 (Windows) for reading file names, alternative charsets such as ISO-8859-1 are used as needed or if specified by the file format.
- DDS (DirectDraw Surface) support enhanced:
- Upgraded image processing code.
- Viewing DDS files is now possible on 64-bit systems.
- ZIP File support enhanced:
- Loading is now faster.
- If invalid timestamps are encountered, the current time is used instead and a warning is issued.
- DTX (LithTech Texture) images are now processed correctly in their actual format. Previously all DTX files were processed as 32-bit images regardless of the actual format. Note: Viewing DTX files is currently not possible on 64-bit systems.
- Changes in the PCK Explorer:
- New feature: Image zooming. For the preview window, there also a new option to keep the zoom locked.
- New feature: Drag and Drop support. Can now open archives that are dropped on an open application window.
- In the dialogs for opening archives the filter for all supported types no longer contains the actual file extensions. This doesn't make sense when there are many file extensions and it looks also funny on Windows Vista. (This change is visible in the PCK Extractor too).
- Changed the text "All files" to "All files in archive" in the extraction dialog to make the meaning clear.
- The file extension filter now treats extensions with different case as the same extension
- When viewing an image, now also the color depth is shown.
- When viewing files with no specific support, it is shown whether it is a text file or a binary file.
- File type names are now correctly displayed on 64-bit systems.
- Introduced an Options menu, moved existing settings to this one
Supported archive formats:
| Name | Extensions | Example games |
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| Arnie Goes 4 Gold SFX File | sfx | Arnie Goes 4 Gold |
| Doom WAD (IWAD) File | wad | Doom, Doom 2, Duke Nukem 3D |
| In The Groove PCK File | pck | In The Groove |
| LithTech Resource File | rez | Blood 2, No One Lives Forever |
| Psychonauts PKG File | pkg | Psychonauts |
| Quake PAK File | pak | Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, Counter-Strike |
| Quake WAD (WAD2/WAD3) File | wad | Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, Counter-Strike |
| Snocka Watten SND File | snd | Snocka Watten |
| Snocka Watten WBM File | wbm | Snocka Watten |
| Steam Game Cache File | gcf | Half-Life 2 |
| Steam No Cache File | ncf | Poker Superstars II |
| Telltale AUD File | aud | Sam & Max Season 1 |
| The Longest Journey BBB File | bbb | The Longest Journey |
| The Longest Journey OVS File | ovs | The Longest Journey |
| The Longest Journey SSS File | sss | The Longest Journey |
| The Longest Journey TM File | tm | The Longest Journey |
| The Longest Journey XARC File | xarc | The Longest Journey |
| WWTBAM AWF File | awf | Who Wants To Be A Millionaire |
| ZIP File | zip, pk3, pk4, pak, crf | Far Cry, Quake 3, Elite Force, System Shock 2 |
Supported image formats:
| Name | Extensions | Operations |
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| DirectDraw Surface | dds | Load |
| Graphics Interchange Format | gif | Load, Save |
| JPEG | jpg, jpeg, jpe, jfif, jif | Load, Save |
| LithTech Texture File | dtx | Load |
| Portable Network Graphics | png | Load, Save |
| The Longest Journey XMG File | xmg | Load |
| TIFF | tif, tiff | Load, Save |
| Truevision TGA | tga | Load |
| Windows Bitmap | bmp, dib | Load, Save |
| ZSoft Paintbrush | pcx | Load |
DDS image code based on the Paint.NET DDS Plugin by Dean Ashton.
DTX image code uses a DTX DLL by BlackAngel Software.
TGA image code based on TGA loader by Lev Povalahev.
Supported sound formats:
| Name | Extensions |
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| Wave File | wav |
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PCK Explorer (compact view)
PCK Explorer (full view)
PCK Extractor GUI
PCK Extractor Console
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