What is this project?

Alternatives

• StormLib is the most widely used reader and writer for MPQ files.
• StormLibSharp is a .NET wrapper for StormLib.

MPQ File Format Specifications

The following sources were used to understand the MPQ format and develop this library.

• http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/mpqformat.html
• https://github.com/ladislav-zezula/StormLib

Unsupported Features

The following features are not currently supported, but I could support in the future if needed.

• Using the value of Locale in HashTable.
• Compressed HET & BET tables.
• Searching from HET & BET tables.
• Part Archives and Patches.
• Archives that do not start with UserData.
• Imploded files.
• Files (within the archive) larger than 4GB
• Anything to do with (attributes), (signature) and (user data) special files.