PakViewer

Cross-platform Lineage 1 PAK file editor.

Installation

Windows

Download *-win-x64.zip from Releases, extract and run PakViewer.exe.

macOS

Download *-osx-universal.zip from Releases.

Note: The application is not signed with an Apple Developer certificate. You need to bypass Gatekeeper:

# After extracting, remove the quarantine attribute
xattr -cr PakViewer

# Or right-click the app and select "Open", then click "Open" in the dialog

Alternatively, go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General and click "Open Anyway" after the first blocked launch attempt.

Linux

Download *-linux-x64.zip from Releases.

# Extract and set executable permission
unzip PakViewer-*-linux-x64.zip
chmod +x PakViewer
./PakViewer

Features

GUI Mode

Support pak file operations:

1. Add file
2. Read content
3. Update content in application
4. Delete file
5. Search and filter files
6. Edit text files with encoding-aware save
7. SPR sprite preview with animation
8. TIL tile map viewer
9. Gallery browsing mode with thumbnails
10. Multi-IDX browsing (All IDX mode)

CLI Mode

Run with -cli flag for command-line operations:

PakViewer -cli <command> [arguments]

Commands

list - List files in PAK

PakViewer -cli list <idx_file> [filter]

Example:

PakViewer -cli list Text.idx
PakViewer -cli list Text.idx html

read - Read and display file content

PakViewer -cli read <idx_file> <filename> [encoding]

Example:

PakViewer -cli read Text.idx 07bearNPC-c.html

export - Export file from PAK to disk

PakViewer -cli export <idx_file> <filename> <output_file> [encoding]

Example:

PakViewer -cli export Text.idx 07bearNPC-c.html output.html

import - Import file from disk into PAK

PakViewer -cli import <idx_file> <filename> <input_file> [encoding]

Note: File must be same size as original.

Example:

PakViewer -cli import Text.idx 07bearNPC-c.html modified.html

info - Show PAK file information

PakViewer -cli info <idx_file>

Encodings

Supported encodings: big5, euc-kr, shift_jis, gb2312, utf-8

Auto-detection by filename:

• -c. suffix: Big5 (Traditional Chinese)
• -k. suffix: EUC-KR (Korean)
• -j. suffix: Shift_JIS (Japanese)
• -h. suffix: GB2312 (Simplified Chinese)

Third-Party Libraries

• oxipng v10.0.0 - Lossless PNG compression tool (MIT License)
  • Used for optimizing PNG files without quality loss
  • Embedded as a resource and extracted on first use

Credits

Original project was from 99net's moore.