Startool incompatible with StarCraft Best Seller Series edition

[Samuel VISCAPI]

Hi,

Startool seems to be incompatible with StarCraft Best Seller Series Edition:

samuel@portable:~/starcraft/stargus-instdir/bin$ ./startool /media/cdrom0/ /home/samuel/starcraft/data.sg
Extract from "/media/cdrom0/" to "/home/samuel/starcraft/data.sg"
Using mpq list file "/home/samuel/starcraft/data.sg/mpqlist.txt"
Please be patient, the data may take a couple of minutes to extract...
Archive "/media/cdrom0//install.exe"
Can't open /media/cdrom0//install.exe
Could not open archive "/media/cdrom0//install.exe", skipping
Archive "/media/cdrom0//stardat.mpq"
Can't open /media/cdrom0//stardat.mpq
Could not open archive "/media/cdrom0//stardat.mpq", skipping
Fatal error: Cannot extract data

Certainly because files are named differently:

samuel@portable:~$ ls /media/cdrom0
Autorun.inf Installer.ico Installer Tome.mpq StarCraft (Windows).exe

I'm running latest bazaar revisions for both Stratagus and Stargus, on Debian 7.1 64 bits.

Sincerely,

Samuel

[Bradley Clemetson (brad-c6)]

Try taking the Installer Tome.mpq and coping to the your computer and rename it "install.exe". Then point Startool at that directory

[Samuel VISCAPI (samuel-viscapi)]

Hi,

/media/cdrom0

cp Installer\ Tome.mpq /home/samuel/install.exe

mkdir /home/samuel/starcraft/data.sg

cp /home/samuel/starcraft/stargus/mpqlist.txt /home/samuel/starcraft/data.sg

cd /home/samuel/starcraft/stargus/build

./startool /home/samuel /home/samuel/starcraft/data.sg

samuel@portable:~/starcraft/stargus/build$ ./startool /home/samuel /home/samuel/starcraft/data.sg
Extract from "/home/samuel" to "/home/samuel/starcraft/data.sg"
Using mpq list file "/home/samuel/starcraft/data.sg/mpqlist.txt"
Please be patient, the data may take a couple of minutes to extract...
Archive "/home/samuel/install.exe"
Not found: files\stardat.mpq

Bye, Sam

[Bradley Clemetson (brad-c6)]

The internal structure of the MPQ is different from that of the US original edition.
It might be if you extract using MPQExtractor(https://github.com/Kanma/MPQExtractor) the file "Common/Starcraft.mpq" and then change it's name to install.exe that might work

[Electric Prism (electricprism-m-deactivatedaccount)]

After banging my head against the wall I finally was able to generate a data.sg file on Arch Linux.

I first mounted my starcraft backup iso.

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# Startool usage is as follows

$ startool -h
startool V1.0 for Stratagus (c) 2002-2012 by the Stratagus Project.
  Written by Lutz Sammer, Nehal Mistry, and Jimmy Salmon and Pali Rohar.
  https://launchpad.net/stargus
Usage: startool archive-directory [destination-directory] [mpqlist-file]
 -V Show version
 -h Show usage
archive-directory Directory which include the archive install.exe or stardat.mpq...
destination-directory Directory where the extracted files are placed.
mpqlist-file mpqlist.txt file which contains mpq file names

#
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I had to manually specify the 3rd hidden option "mpqlist-file" - once I manually linked to this file it was able to build a data.sg file in my home directory.

startool /run/media/electricprism/StarCraft /home/electricprism/data.sg /usr/share/games/stratagus/stargus/mpqlist.txt

Hope this info helps others out there experiencing the same problem.

[timfelgentreff (timfelgentreff)]

This project was moved to https://github.com/Wargus/stargus. All issues were migrated there.