About

Deba2 is an explorer-style application used to open/extract assets from Bethesda's BA2 and BSA archive formats. 

Features

• Multi-select support, including Control and Shift modifiers 
• Right-click menu to extract selected, or all files in an archive
• Open a file, using your set default application for a format (if available) - by either double-clicking, or selecting "Open" from the context menu
• Makes use of the Registry to automatically load associated icons for known file types
• Options to set the default "root" folder for extraction, as well as to preserve paths when extracting.
• Persistent user settings to keep track of your last used ba2 folder, your root folder for extraction, and whether or not you want to preserve archive folder paths.
  

Requirements

• .NET v4.5.2
• Visual C++ 2013
  

Background

The main source of inspiration for the UI design was from the Java-based app "Fallout 3 Archive Utility". So this app will behave similarly, yet I've made changes where I felt improvements could be made.

Installation

Extract from the zip, and put it wherever you wish. This application will create a folder in your AppData/Roaming folder, named Deba2, where it will store user settings, as well as the .dll for the library created to open and extract from BA2 files. This means the app is essentially portable, as it will create anything it needs when it's run. 

Known Issues

* Attempting to open a game file will fail, and the "Open" option will be disabled upon opening a second archive. This will be fixed in an update, shortly.

Changelog

• v1.1.0.0 - Added support for BSA format (The archive format used for Skyrim and older titles). 
• v1.0.3.0 - Disabled associated Icon feature, until a more reliable solution can be found, as it was causing crashes. 
• v1.0.2.0 - Fixed an issue where attempting to extract a file, after cancelling a previous extraction, would cause a crash. Added crash logging.  
• v1.0.1.0 - Addressed an issue that caused the application to crash when attempting to choose the Destination Root for some users.
• v1.0.0.0 - Initial Release
  

Technical Details

The UI is written in C#/WPF, using a CLI/C++ library based off of, and including small portions of, the source code for F4SE's Ba2extract. Per the conditions of using said source, this library's source can be found here.