Extracting game data

All of the data that is used by the game is stored under the \DATA directory. Take a look there now. You will there a bunch of files. Quite a few are unpacked - these are of no interest for now. The ones that are packed are the ones with .BIF file extention. The BIF files are containers that hold most of the game data - this is what you want to extract. BIF files alone are useless, you need the accompanying KEY files, because the BIF files are indexed by KEY files - this whole irrelevant mumbo-jumbo is described on the KEY BIF V1.1 Format page.

At moment, there are no official tool to extract these files, so we are going to rely on home-made tools. These tools are listed on the bottom of the KEY BIF V1.1 Format page. Pick one of them, and use it to extract any BIF file you want.

Make sure that the extracted files are not under the \DATA directory, or any of its sub-directories. If that was the case, the game would load them, wasting resources and confusing you with non-working modification.