ok I used DATMANLITE to extract the contents of the MASTER.DAT file. It took a VERY VERY VERY long time. So long that I left my computer running the whole night. And I woke up today and it tells me that there isn't enough free space on my drive! I right clicked and choose properties on the folder and its 56.4 GIGS!!!!!! Is there something im doing wrong? or is this how big the MASTER.DAT file really is? I wanna add new areas and towns in fallout 2 but I won't worry about it if the files need to have that much space.