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- => Questions & Tutorials => Topic started by: moemudzi on June 23, 2018, 09:27:37 am

Title: How can I extract stuff from a .WAD without a .HED?
Post by: moemudzi on June 23, 2018, 09:27:37 am
I'm trying to open up a music WAD file, but it can't open without the HED for some reason?
Is there a program that does that or am I doing something wrong???
Title: Re: How can I extract stuff from a .WAD without a .HED?
Post by: %.gone. on June 23, 2018, 12:55:41 pm
There has to be another file associated with the .wad
Whether it be a .hed, .dat, .whatever or in the case of thaw sound paks the sfx pak is the 'wad' and the 'hed' data is found in the sfx_dat.qb

The other file stores the entries of each file; checksum, offset and size for each file in the wad.
Unless there is padding between each file in the wad and/or each file in the wad has a fourcc magic number doing this manually would be impossible.
Title: Re: How can I extract stuff from a .WAD without a .HED?
Post by: moemudzi on June 24, 2018, 06:26:18 am
Alright, thanks.