[Gothicnewbie]

I googled a bit and found http://www.bendlins.de but bitdefender traffic light ([Bild: attachment.php?s=3931226fbeee687575d2999e9cb7d6ef&attachmentid=50044&d=1610521250&thumb=1]) reckons the site is infected. And clicking on it anyways(maybe bitdefender is wrong? - why did I even bother installing it if I would later pass its 2nd opinion over anyways?), because everyone seems to be linking to this site with the only way to extract audio files from the gothic games but nothing happens.....maybe the site's broken? Or hacked....might explain why bitdefender reckons its not good...

Is there any other places to get G3Pak and GothicVDFS which are supposedly the only programs that can open and extract said files from all 6 games of the series? Anyone got a mirror that isnt inside an infected or broken site?

[Lehona]

Nico's site has had trouble with false positives in the past, so it's not too surprising that bitdefender doesn't like it. He has gotten it "reapproved" in the past, but I figure he might've gotten tired of playing whack-a-mole with it. Be assured that the site is trustworthy. It should display a simple directory structure where you can download the necessary tools. For Gothic 1 and 2 that would be GothicVDFS (because all assets in G1 and G2 are stored in Gothic/data/*.vdfs), no idea about newer games.

[MadFaTal]

On WorldOfGothic are the tools also available:

NicoVDFS

For Gothic3 (FG):
G3PakDir
G3PAKWorker
Gothic III - PAK Packer-Unpacker
Gothic3 Clean Up

[Gothicnewbie]

Sorry for late reply, forgot to come back here.

Nico's site has had trouble with false positives in the past, so it's not too surprising that bitdefender doesn't like it. He has gotten it "reapproved" in the past, but I figure he might've gotten tired of playing whack-a-mole with it. Be assured that the site is trustworthy. It should display a simple directory structure where you can download the necessary tools. For Gothic 1 and 2 that would be GothicVDFS (because all assets in G1 and G2 are stored in Gothic/data/*.vdfs), no idea about newer games.

Oh I see.

On WorldOfGothic are the tools also available:

NicoVDFS

For Gothic3 (FG):
G3PakDir
G3PAKWorker
Gothic III - PAK Packer-Unpacker
Gothic3 Clean Up

Oh thanks, what about Gothic 4 Arcania and fall of setarrif?

[Gothicnewbie]

ok, so I opened up sound.VDF with NicoVDFS but that only had sound effects, no music except for the extremo one or whatever its called. Where the music files at??

[Milky-Way]

ok, so I opened up sound.VDF with NicoVDFS but that only had sound effects, no music except for the extremo one or whatever its called. Where the music files at??

_work\data\music
In files that you can read with the direct music producer

[MadFaTal]

Oh thanks, what about Gothic 4 Arcania and fall of setarrif?

I never tried, but it sounds helpfull for Arancaia:
ArcaniA Unpacker

[Gothicnewbie]

_work\data\music
In files that you can read with the direct music producer

Oh thanks.

I used version 9 and some of the tracks have short timeline but when played on repeat, it sounds like there is more to the timeline but the program does not show it so I don't know how long each track is supposed to be so I can record it. Maybe this is because of the missing instruments bug I've been hearing? I read the older version 8.1 might be better but no idea where to get that (since the music was designed in 8.1)?

[Gothicnewbie]

I never tried, but it sounds helpfull for Arancaia:
ArcaniA Unpacker

Seems to open and convert all the files I need except the music.pak file which spits out audio_streaming_chunk_x.pak files where x is a number between 0 and 89. Got anything to unpack those files? It just says

[06/23/21 17:35:29] Warning: Warning: Could not convert C:\Documents and Settings\Z\Desktop\ArcaniA Unpacker\Arcania Unpacker 0.3\musicstreamingchunks\audio_streaming_chunk_0.pak - Invalid header
[06/23/21 17:35:29] Warning: Converting file C:\Documents and Settings\Z\Desktop\ArcaniA Unpacker\Arcania Unpacker 0.3\musicstreamingchunks\audio_streaming_chunk_0.pak to C:\Documents and Settings\Z\Desktop\ArcaniA Unpacker\Arcania Unpacker 0.3\musicstreamingchunks\audio_streaming_chunk_0
[06/23/21 17:35:29] Warning: Warning: File already exists C:\Documents and Settings\Z\Desktop\ArcaniA Unpacker\Arcania Unpacker 0.3\musicstreamingchunks\audio_streaming_chunk_0
[06/23/21 17:35:29] Warning: Converting C:\Documents and Settings\Z\Desktop\ArcaniA Unpacker\Arcania Unpacker 0.3\musicstreamingchunks\audio_streaming_chunk_0.pak
[06/23/21 17:35:29] Warning: Conversion failed!
Check the log file for more info

Nevermind, found a way with this.