Mechcommander Gold open PAK files

Mechcommander data files are compressed using a customized PAK format. This tutorial is based off of CMunsta’s command line extraction tool. Some PAK files have been fully extracted in the MCGExtracted GitHub project. You can read more about the project in the Mechcommander Gold extracted post.

1. Download the PAK file extraction tool pakextract.exe
   Download link 1 <– Cmunsta
   Download link 2 <– GitHub mirror
2. Place your pakextract.exe file into the directory containing the .PAK file.
3. Open up cmd and navigate to the directory containing the .PAK  and pakextract.exe
4. Extract the file at the index in the .PAK file you would like to. Data in .PAK files is ordered by indices which you’ll have to look up if you want to extract a specific file. For example if you’d like to extract the data for the Atlas mech, into a file called atlas.txt you would execute:
   pakextract.exe OBJECT2.PAK 51 atlas.txt

Once again, if you need the fully extracted source for a specific PAK file, some PAK files have been fully extracted in the MCGExtracted GitHub project. There are also scripts you can run yourself located in the extraction_tools directory of the MCGExtracted project. For more information about extracting specific PAK files see the sections below.

OBJECT2.PAK
There are 1189 indices in the OBJECT2.PAK file. Mech data is located at the indices listed in this spreadsheet.