Is there a mac program that will extract .pak files?

If you feel up to it, you could get an application like "Synalize It!" from teh App Store and use it to develop a .pak grammar, which you could then use to read .pak files...It's also possible the game uses one of the format for which a grammar is already available from the developer's site.

Otherwise, I doubt you'll find anything.

I'm also in search of ".pak" advice.

I've got a movie file from roughly '97 that bears that suffix. It was probably created by (old) Media 100 software and exported for playback on Macs that didn't have their software. In other words, it might be a variant of a Quicktime codec, but current QT won't open it.

What do you think, might it be worth my considerable effort to dig out and boot up an old system (running System 8.x or 9.x, for example) and see whether it'll fly?

Thanks in advance for any guidance…

That's totally different.

You have a Cinepak movie file. As far as I know, there is no Cinepak Codec for current versions of QuickTimeX. It may have been supported in QuickTime 7.6, which may still be available (certainly beter than trying to find a Classic system).

You may also be able to convert it to another format with video software based on FFMPEG.

There is no standard .pak file format. What application created these files?

My goodness, look at that: QuickTime Player 7 -- which I'd kept around IN LION -- likes it!

Quicktime Player 10.1 does not.

Go figure.

Thanks! You've saved me untold hours.