It feels strange to release a 1.0, but I feel it’s time for this program to get out the door as a 1.0. There are still a few things that could be better, but overall it’s doing what it’s supposed to do.
MPQ Extractor is a small program that will extract the content of MPQ (MoPaQ) archives. Multiple archives can be opened and processed at the same time, and the extraction process can be cancelled at any moment. If the program is launched by double-clicking an archive or a selection of archives, it will automatically quit once it has extracted that set of archives (and any archive added in-between).
Here’s a screenshot of how the main window looks:
Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Universal Binary, of course.
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Friday, February 23, 2007 at 01:31 PST
Shuu
Do you plan to make a window os version at all?
Friday, February 23, 2007 at 13:54 PST
Jean-François Roy
MPQ Extractor uses the Cocoa and MPQKit frameworks which are Mac OS X only, so unfortunately no I will not.
Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 12:48 PST
cugel
Very, very nice! Thanks!
Friday, March 2, 2007 at 16:33 PST
Pilya
MPQKit, Sparkle, Cocoa greatness…. all makes for a very promising applications. Really… a big thanks.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 02:37 PDT
Tenya
Shuu, do a google search for “mpq editor v 1.8″ or if that doesn’t work, just “MPQ Editor”. I’ve used this without issue under XP but it should work with 98/NT/2K as well.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 10:43 PDT
Ziana
Fantastic! Thanks so much!
Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 13:33 PDT
Jason
Thank you, I’ve been looking all day for exactly this.
Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 10:02 PDT
Angelofmax
I need a Windows Version :S
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 17:00 PDT
David Cramer
I’ve posted up a link to your file on a site I run, great work!
http://www.sourcepeek.com/wiki/MPQ_Extractor_%28Mac%29
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 18:40 PDT
VividDarkness
i had an old school verios MPQ 2000 and it only worked half the time, i downloaded it from Capmaign Creations adn thatnk you for making a mac version i ahve been looking 4 ever and finally found!
Friday, April 13, 2007 at 04:37 PDT
KarlKFI
Hey BZ, do mpqs still have extractable (listfile)’s? I’d love to have a browser for extracting single files…
But these 1gb+ WoW files are a bit of a beast. PTR 2.1.0 patch.MPQ is 1.13gb… and common.MPQ is like 3.57gb now…
Of course that’s more work for you
Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 14:52 PDT
Jean-François Roy
KarlKFI: just grab MPQFS :p
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 04:00 PDT
KarlKFI
Erg, guess that’s what I get for not going to the main page… I suggest a sub page navigation menu!
Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 16:28 PDT
Fer
Very smooth. Except when I use it on Starcraft data files (all I’ve tested it on), it doesn’t extract most of the data. I know from using other MPQ utilities that there are a load of wav files in there, and other things. But this extractor only seems to find about 7MB of the 64MB.
Just tell me if I’m missing something.
If not- work for the next version I guess!
Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 17:06 PDT
Fer
Ah. I guess that’s a list file thing.
MPQFS works very well by the way!
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 20:30 PDT
Jean-François Roy
Listfile integration for known Blizzard files is forthcoming (and improved support in MPQFS).
Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 07:18 PDT
Daniel
It would be nice if we could list the files within the archive and selectively extract specific file(s).
Otherwise - great job - did what I was looking for…
Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 07:19 PDT
Daniel
nevermind I’m an idiot - read prev comments.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 01:09 PDT
MC
WOOO! I TYPED IN MPQ EXTRACTOR NOW AND I GOT IT! FKN HELLZ YEA! FK ROOWOOWOWO!!
Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 18:42 PDT
Sy
Sooooo now I have these .m2 files. What do I do with those? I sure wish there was a tutorial somewhere around here… >_>
Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 17:57 PDT
Weili
Thank you so much for making this! I’ve been looking for a MPQ utility for Mac all day!
Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 14:57 PDT
NagaDark
NEED WINDOWS VISTA VERSION WRITE ONE!
Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 01:23 PDT
Jean-François Roy
No, there are plenty of MPQ utilities for Windows. Search on Google, I’m sure you will find one that suits your needs.
Monday, June 23, 2008 at 03:55 PDT
Kortan
I’m sorry if im braindead, but how does this app work? I clicked open, but it wont open my map files…
Monday, June 23, 2008 at 04:01 PDT
Kortan
they are warcraft 3, frozen throne map files, if that makes a difference
Monday, June 23, 2008 at 12:26 PDT
Jean-François Roy
Are those files protected map files? If so, the current version of MPQ Extractor will not open them. I will be adding support for such files at a later time.
Monday, June 23, 2008 at 21:03 PDT
Kortan
ah, yes they are protected. but even when i try to select one of the standard warcraft maps included when you install warcraft it wont let me.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 15:55 PDT
Jean-François Roy
If by “it won’t let me” you mean you cannot select the file in the open dialog, then that’s a bug and I will address it. In the mean time, you should be able to drag the file on the icon of either MPQ Extractor of mpqfs and it should work.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 21:51 PDT
Kortan
Nope, not only can I not select any of my warcraft maps (stock maps included) in the open dialog, I’m unable to drag the files onto the icons of either MPQ extractor or mpqfs. Dragging them to the icon results in the map being moved from its original place to the folder in which the applications are (in this case the desktop).
I have both the latest version of MacFuse and the latest version of MPQ Kit, although I’m not sure what to do with the MPQKit.framework folder that I get when I extract the file. Maybe that’s the problem?
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 23:19 PDT
Jean-François Roy
You don’t need MPQKit.framework if you’re not going to write an application that wants to access or create MPQ archives.
I’ll look into the bug. Thanks.
Monday, July 21, 2008 at 23:04 PDT
Peter Miller
I hope this extractor is better than the last one I tried, thanks anyway!
Friday, September 5, 2008 at 18:19 PDT
papabear
Great tool. You are to be congratulated on an excellent implementation on your first 1.0.
I just wanted to access the music from the game for the fun of it. Highborn lament is a beautiful piece. Having worked on games I’m curious to see the texture maps and models and how they are constructed so its off to find out how to open these other files.
again, congrats and thank you!
Friday, September 5, 2008 at 22:56 PDT
Jean-François Roy
papabear:
I recommend using mpqfs to browse the large archives of World of Warcraft. It’s much faster and more convenient than extracting them with MPQ Extractor.