Pleaasseee don't delete me! I'm too pretty to die!

Okay - I'll get to working out which files are compressed and which aren't.

Thanks for your help, both of you. I greatly appreciated it. I just guess I'll have to stop being a lazy student bum now, eh?

So... I'm going to have to find out via trial-and-error what parts are packed and what aren't before I run the extractor? That's gonna take awhile

I just did a search for all things in the .dpk that when Species\Inventions\UEF (as the 2 files from before were in there) and it crashed on me - but I noticed that it crashed on files in Species\Inventions\UEF\Restore which contains 8 .SPEC and 5 .obj files - each about 1KB big. Those 2 files from ...

Okay, I used the "dpk" BMS and as usual it stopped, told me it couldn't decompress (not sure what files cause it to trip up) and then mc32 gives me "runtime error 5".

Anyhow - log included and I appreciate the help

The problem with Starmageddon (I'll use this name as it was the Amercanized one and thus prolly the most well-known) is that it is all one big-ass .DPK I know somewhat about file formats - I just wasn't paying very much attention when I was opening files from inside the MultiEx window so I couldn't ...

Hey there, I'm been trying to extract the Project Earth (Starmageddon) .DPK file for awhile and stumbled across these forums and found a relavant post: ( here ) Which is great - very useful. Except that MultiEx crashes when extracting unless I use only the dpk_com.bms - and once extracted the files ...