halflife.wad Created 20 years ago2004-06-23 17:19:33 UTC by alexizzle

please help me... i just started doing this and i cannot figure out where to find halflife.wad. i looked in the steam folder EVERYWHERE, (including in valve) and i reinstalled steam and it is still nowhere to be found. i googled it to see if i could download it somewhere else and i;ve had no luck. if anyone knows where to find it whether is be on the internet or on my computer, please help. thank you

Steam stores it's files in some sort of pak files although they have a different extension. You'll need a browser for these files and probably you'll need to unpack these files.

However, since I don't use Steam I can't tell you what program you need and such. There are some guys around here that do know, though. Just wait for their replies.

alright thanks, i'm waiting.... lol

You need GCFscape. It opens GCF's, which are those equivalents of PAK files for steam. I think Snarkpit had a link. I have no idea where to look in your GCFs as I don't use Steam, either, but they're somewhere in there.

You can get GCFScape here. Open SteamSteamAppshalf-life.gcf in it, then go to /valve in the GCF (it's like a ZIP archive).

Right-click halflife.wad on the right-hand side, then click Extract. Point it where you want it to go, and voila

I'm going to write a tutorial about mapping for Steam.

Good idea on steam mapping, I've seen lots of questions (not here): "OMG HOW DO I SET UP HAMMER FOR STEAM!?!?!?"

Seventh: actually-fix0red

Its a bug in the software (GCFscape). Find a new version? Or a different prog.

i needed to download a fix for the prog when i got it (many moons)

if you have half-life previous to steam (retail or otherwise) you can simply use the halflife.wad from that. copy it to ya vhe folder or summat.

i think alot of ppl only got hl cause they needed a key for steam (as i did) didnt bother wasting the space installing it (again) on my drive... but is it possable to get it fro the CD?? anyways i love the idea bout steam mappin tutorial since a majority plays on steam and have possably gotten rid of won to save space...

the wad files are in GCF files. get gcf-scape.

Get rid of WON? No way. I can't play bshift then! It only takes up a small percentage of my disk anyways.

Anonymous fella: don't use "Shell execute". Right-click -> Extract. Does something similar to me otherwise.

That sounds right. Just open the GCFScape.exe file.

Then File -> Open, and then find half-life.gcf or counter-strike.gcf or whatever (in SteamSteamApps). Then... navigate it and right-click the file you want.

I guess you need .NET framework.