Originally posted by L'araldo ucraino:

I put that in a folder with base.scs and try to open it the extractor immediately closes and nothing happens. Is the extractor currently bugged?

• Create a new folder for your work with extracted game asset files. In this example, I create a new folder 'SCS' in drive C: and I create a sub-folder under 'SCS' calles 'extracted' to store all extracted files. So now we have two folder path as follow:
  ● C:\SCS
  ● C:\SCS\extracted
  
  
• I don't like SCS Extractor. Other tool from SCS called 'SCS Packer' is much better because it support both extract and pack operation and accept source/target path argument for that operation. Download SCS Packer here:
  https://modding.scssoft.com/wiki/Documentation/Tools/Game_Archive_Packer#Download
  
  
• Once downloaded, open the ZIP and extract 'scs_packer.exe' to 'C:\SCS' folder.
  
  
• Create a new blank text document file (.txt) inside 'C:\SCS' folder (or location must be the same as with 'scs_packer.exe').
  
  
• Open that text document file (.txt) with Windows Notepad and copy/paste the following batch script:
  
  @echo off set TARGET_PATH=C:\SCS\extracted set SOURCE_PATH=%~1 set SOURCE_FILE=%~nx1 cls echo; if "%SOURCE_PATH%"=="" goto INVALID_ARGS if not exist "%SOURCE_PATH%" goto FILE_NOT_EXIST if not exist "%TARGET_PATH%\" goto DIR_NOT_EXIST echo PRECAUTION: echo Extracting large SCS asset file may takes time. Please DO NOT close this dialog echo window or kill the app process during extraction. The sh***y SCS extractor does echo not show any sign of progress during extracting. echo; echo File to extract: %SOURCE_FILE% echo; echo + Hit Y key to start extraction. echo - Hit N key to cancel and exit. choice /C YNXQ /N /M "? Your choice: " if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="1" goto DO_EXTRACT goto BATCH_EXIT :INVALID_ARGS echo ERROR: echo Need one argument pointing to a path of SCS file to be extracted. goto BATCH_DONE :FILE_NOT_EXIST echo ERROR: Source file does not exist. echo %SOURCE_PATH% goto BATCH_DONE :DIR_NOT_EXIST echo ERROR: Target folder does not exist. echo %TARGET_PATH% goto BATCH_DONE :DO_EXTRACT cls echo; echo Extracting %SOURCE_FILE% echo Please wait ... echo; scs_packer.exe extract "%SOURCE_PATH%" -root "%TARGET_PATH%" echo; echo Process has been completed. Extracted files stored in: echo %TARGET_PATH% :BATCH_DONE echo; echo Press any key to terminate and close this window ... pause>nul :BATCH_EXIT
• Save the text document. Now rename the text document file (select the whole file name!) into: scs_packer_batch.cmd
  Confirm the change on Windows dialog prompt.
  
  
• Create a new shortcut on your Windows Desktop and select C:\SCS\scs_packer_batch.cmd file as target path. Rename the shortcut at your will e.g. "SCS Extract". Make it fancy by changing the icon, etc ... :)
  
  
• Profit.