---
name: "unmass"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "unmass"
version: "0.9-8"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/unmass"
---

# unmass(1)

extract game archive files

## NAME

unmass - extract game archive files

## SYNOPSIS

**unmass** \[*options*\] *file* \

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **unmass** command.

**unmass** is a tool to extract game archives. It supports the following archive types: Crismon Land, Baldur's Gate 2, Civilization 4, Doom (WADs), Dune 2, Etherlords 2, Final Fantasy 7 and 8, Flashpoint, Knights of Xentar, Metal Gear Solid (DARs), Moorhuhn 2 and 3, Megaman Legends, Oni, Operation Flashpoint, Princess Maker 2, Quake 1, RollCage, Swine, Unreal Tournament umods, Virtua Fighter bitmaps, MEA exe's, some economy file format.

## OPTIONS

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-e \<archive file\> \<file name\> \[...\<file name\>\]**

  Opens the archive and extract files.

- **--modules**

  Prints out list of modules for archive loading.

- **--list \<archive file\>**

  Opens the archive and prints list of the files inside.

## EXAMPLES

Display list of files contained inside archive 'battle.lgp'

- unmass -list battle.lgp

  - Opens 'battle.lgp' and extracts file 'aabc.txt' and all files ending

  with 'dat' into current directory

- unmass -e battle.lgp aabc.txt \*dat

  ## SEE ALSO

[**pak**(1)](/pak/1.md).\

## AUTHOR

unmass was written by Miro Janosik.

This manual page was written by Gürkan Myczko \<gurkan@phys.ethz.ch\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).