Wednesday, October 8th, 2008, 8:03 pm | Computer, Download, Gaming, Hacking, Tutorials

Extracting media (music, videos, images) from many games!

Today I want to show you how to extract media like ingame music, videos, images and textures from many common games. It’s useful if you want to listen to the sound track of your favourite game even when you’re not playing.

Extracting the media should be legal as long as you own the original game!

Search your game in the game index, navigate to the path specified in your Windows Explorer, then use the application given to extract your music. Good Luck!

If you have any questions, or want more games to be added, please comment!

Game index for music:

  • Age of Empires II:

    Paths:
    Age of Empires II/Taunt for taunts
    Age of Empires II/SOUND/scenario for ingame speeches
    Age of Empires II/SOUND/STREAM for ingame music
    Age of Empires II/DATA/sounds.drs
    You don’t need a program for all sounds except the last path. You can use DRS Explorer to extract the sounds from the DRS file.

  • Age of Empires III:

    Path: Age of Empires III/Sound/music/standard
    For Age of Empires III, there is no need to extract any music! It’s given as MP3 file.

  • Battlefield 1942:

    Path: Battlefield 1942/Mods/bf1942/Music
    Filetype: *.bik

  • Battlefield Vietnam:

    Menu Music:
    Path: Battlefield Vietnam/Mods/BfVietnam/Music
    Filetype: *.bik

    Ingame Music:
    Path: Battlefield Vietnam/Mods/BfVietnam/Archives/music.rfa
    Filetype: *.rfa

  • Call of Duty:

    Path: Call of Duty/Main/pak2.pk3
    Filetype: *.pk3
    When you opened the file, you have to navigate to /sound/music.

  • Call of Duty United Offensive:

    Path: Call of Duty/uo/pakuo02.pk3
    Filetype: *.pk3

  • Call of Duty 2:

    Path: Call of Duty2/main/iw_05.iwd
    Filetype: *.iwd

  • Conflict Global Storm:

    Path:  Conflict Global Storm/Data/FMV
    Filetype: *.bik

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth

    Path: The Battle for Middle-earth/Music.big
    Filetype: *.big
    Inside the file, navigate to data/audio/tracks

Filetype Index:


Filetype: *.rfa
Application: RAT 0.5 [Download]
Usage: Open your game’s *.rfa file with RAT, then click “Extract”.


Filetype: *.bik
Application: RADVideo [Download]
Usage: Select your *.bik file with RAD Video, click “Convert a file”, in the converting window that follows you select what you want (either only video, only audio, or both), then click “Convert”.


Filetype: *.pk3, *.iwd
Application: WinRAR [Download]
Usage: In WinRAR, click File -> Open Archive, then browse to your file’s directory and select “All Files” as filetype, otherwise WinRAR won’t show you the *.pk3/*.iwd file. Open your *.pk3/*.iwd file and extract the media the way you would usually extract *.rar archives with WinRAR


Filetype: *.big
Application: Dragon UnPACKer 5 [Download]
Usage: Open your *.big file with Dragon UnPACKer 5, navigate to the media file you want and rightclick.

Instructions how to extract music from other games not mentioned here, you can use this list!

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8 Responses to “Extracting media (music, videos, images) from many games!”

  1. admin Says:

    please comment if you want me to add more games!

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  2. japser Says:

    Great!

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  3. XR117 Says:

    how about battlefield 2 menu music??

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  4. gamerfreek Says:

    Nice post… But lets say, i want to replace a music with one of my own track and again compile the file back, how do i do it?

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  5. Lennart Moltrecht (admin) Says:

    @gamerfreek:
    Well, this depends on what game you’re trying to do this for. If you tell me the game, I can see whether it’s possible.

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  6. DavaDoups Says:

    any updates coming ?

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  7. DOTHEFACE Says:

    Thanks!

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  8. Jinny Hoeffliger Says:

    any news coming ?

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