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Chifuyu Matsuno, posted Wed Aug 18, 2021 1:02 pm (65781)

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Yeah, my question is how to run Games with the unpacked versions for Mods or something. I would like to know how because I wanna edit a thing in a game.

aluigi, posted Sat Aug 21, 2021 8:31 pm (65811)

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Usually the situation is the following:
- the game automatically loads non-archived files if found on disk
- the game automatically loads non-archived files if there is original archive has been removed
- the game can load non-archived files if launched with a particular command-line option (probably rare)
- the game doesn't load non-archived files at all

It depends by the game and the format of the archive, so there is no generic answer.

Usually temporary deleting the original archive, running procmon (sysinternal process monitor) with the file monitoring on the game process, and running the game, may help in knowing if the game tries to load the files.

I suggest you to specify the name of the game and search in other topics.