Uploaded July 2013 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
A utility I made in C# programming language to extract .WAD files in Insomniac's Spyro the Dragon series. The extraction process is quite long due to the way the utility extracts files. I discovered that loops are not really good to deal with large files. Its also the first utility I made to extract a game file. Also, I need to do some code optimizations to make the extraction process much faster because extract the huge 105Mb WAD file in the root directory of Spyro the Dragon game disc can take up to 10 hours, depending of your computer hardware.
.WAD files in Insomniac's Spyro the Dragon series mostly contains RAW data, thats why extracted files have no meaning names (I used files' number and address in the .WAD file as name) and no file extension (I marked them as .bin for "binary").
A utility I made in C# programming language to extract .WAD files in Insomniac's Spyro the Dragon series. The extraction process is quite long due to the way the utility extracts files. I discovered that loops are not really good to deal with large files. Its also the first utility I made to extract a game file. Also, I need to do some code optimizations to make the extraction process much faster because extract the huge 105Mb WAD file in the root directory of Spyro the Dragon game disc can take up to 10 hours, depending of your computer hardware.
.WAD files in Insomniac's Spyro the Dragon series mostly contains RAW data, thats why extracted files have no meaning names (I used files' number and address in the .WAD file as name) and no file extension (I marked them as .bin for "binary").
