libmpq is a library for manipulating MPQ (MoPaQ) archives. It is part of the mpq-tools project.
MPQ, or MoPaQ, is a proprietary archive format created by Mike O'Brien, the man hailed as Blizzard's multiplayer engine genius, back in 1996 as a general purpose archive for use with Diablo, and named narcissistically for its creator - "Mike O'brien PaCK". The copyrights to it, however, are held by Havas Interactive, Blizzard's parent company. The archive format is used by many Blizzard titles like Diablo, Diablo 2, Starcraft, Warcraft 2: BNE or a newer version in Warcraft 3.
Installation:
1. Download libmpq-0.x.x.tar.gz
2. tar xzf libmpq-0.x.x.tar.gz && cd libmpq-0.x.x
3. ./configure && make && make install
What's New in This Release:
· This release includes several major improvements.
· Full extraction support for protected Warcraft 3 maps was added.
· Full support for MPQ archive version 2 (used in World of Warcraft - The Burning Crusade) was added.
· Support for extracting BZIP2 compressed data was added.
· This release can handle files inside archives larger than 2 GB, and Python bindings were added.
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· This release includes several major improvements.
· Full extraction support for protected Warcraft 3 maps was added.
· Full support for MPQ archive version 2 (used in World of Warcraft - The Burning Crusade) was added.
· Support for extracting BZIP2 compressed data was added.
· This release can handle files inside archives larger than 2 GB, and Python bindings were added.
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