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Hello! I am snafuPop. I used to frequently work on the Dungeon Fighter Online Wiki. However, as an active Shadower on Kronos, I now intend to help contribute to the new MapleStory wiki.

Sandbox

As part of an effort to update certain pages marked in need of construction or reorganization, preliminary changes will be staged here first as a courtesy.

• User:SnafuPop/EquipSandbox
• User:SnafuPop/Servers
• User:Snafupop/Guide:Heroic Progression

Extracting .wz Files

When it comes to grabbing in-game images for use on the wiki, there's no better place to source it than directly from the game files. However, all of the game's resources are saved as .wz files, so we'll need to unpack them into .png files that we can view and upload onto the wiki. With great power comes great responsibility! I've written out a step-by-step guide here for the benefit of other wiki contributors—do not abuse this!

Things You'll Need

WZ-Dumper

A utility used to convert .wz into .png and .mp3 files published by Xterminatorz. The code is open-source and hosted on GitHub. To download, click on Releases on the right and download the latest version. It'll be downloaded as a .zip archive, so extract it to wherever you want to keep it.

MapleStory

Of course, you'll need the game downloaded to extract its contents.

Steps

1. Make a copy of the .wz file you want to extract.
   • Although the program will not manipulate the .wz file in anyway, to be completely safe I would highly recommend making a copy of the .wz files you would like to look at, then only ever mess with the copy instead of dealing with the original files from the game. This should also let you safely browse the files while also in-game if you need to go back and forth as a reference.
   • To make things easy, you can simply make a copy of the game's entire filesystem and only keep the folder structure and .wz files. If you are comfortable with command-line operations, you can run one of the following commands according to your operating system:
     • Windows Terminal: robocopy path\to\MapleStory\ output_dir *.wz /s
     • MacOS/Linux Terminal: rsync --include"*/" --include"*.wz" --exclude"*" path/to/MapleStory/ output_dir
2. In WZ-Dumper in the Input section, click on Select File and choose the .wz file you want to extract. You can also choose Select Folder instead to browse an entire folder.
3. In the Output section, select the folder you want to place all extracted files to.
4. Tick the checkmark box next to Include Images and MP3s.
5. Click the Dump button. When you check the folder you chose in step 3, you should be able to see .png files that were found within the selected .wz file(s).