Introduction (Early WIP)
This is very very very much a work in progress. Many more sections are planned.
TLDR
This is very very incomplete and only here to serve as a basic guide whilst this is being worked on.
The process is actually fairly simple - provided you have the game on your computer, you could just extract (almost) any game file (yes, the files are actually compressed inside the wad file, sort of like a .zip archive) and browse through its contents. This is done with QuickBMS and a script that iterates through the file decompressing and writing its contents to disk.
Sidenote: Some files may return 'unexistent file' - this is because you're trying to extract a dynamic wad archive and the contents of the file you're trying to extract have not been loaded by the game as it hasn't required it to be loaded - such as housing items you haven't seen yet. You can solve this by downloading directly from the Patcher or extracting non-dynamic wad archives.
Due to the configuration of the Patch server, you are able to "read" files within a directory but not the contents of the Directory itself. You can find a collection of important files in "GameData" below, and the wad files found within %ProgramData%/KingsIsle Entertainment/Wizard101/Data/GameData are also found in the relevant Patcher directory.
You can even see "Data/GameData" on PC.
Here's a video of the process, if that helps.
Introduction
Well, if you're still here, you either missed the message above or want to subject yourself to long paragraphs and messy essays - whatever the case, good to have you here.
LocalPackagesList.txt - The game will use this text file as a list to scan for during patch (you know, the thing that either takes ages or doesn't) - the game will also use this list to avoid downloading files you already have. You can edit this file to force the patcher to download certain wad files or clear it to patch in seconds.
All these files can be obtained from the Patcher at the link above.
FLG#DYN: Content can only be extracted once loaded into the files by the game if the file is not from Patcher
FLG#STA: Content can be accessed regardless of where the file has come from
Patcher Intro
The files are hosted on http://versionec.us.wizard101.com - this houses all the game files for Wizard101. Files are also hosted on patch.us and more recently version.us which is sometimes behind versionec and not used by the game. The current version is necessary (since October 2018) to download files directly from the Patcher. This is necessary if you wish to extract content in some of the larger files that is only 'loaded' when required for use.
You can use whatever you wish though versionec seems to work better. The directory structure is the same - wad files are in the GameData folder. You can find the Patcher at the top of this post.
WizPatcher/V_rXXXXXX.Wizard_1_XXX/LatestBuild/Data/GameData/Root.wad for live
WizPatcher/V_rXXXXXX.WizardDev/LatestBuild/Data/GameData/Root.wad for test.
Dynamic Files
Many of the larger and safe files are dynamic. This means that for the contents of the file to exist in Dynamic files, it has to be downloaded from the Patcher - and as a result when you try to extract files prior to this, the file basically doesn't exist.
A clear example is housing items - when you see boxes, that's the game downloading the chair model and textures compressed data (for example) from the Patcher and writing to the file. In short, you will only extract what you've seen in-game when you try to extract a dynamic file. To avoid this issue, just always download dynamic files from the Patcher, where the game gets the info to begin with.
Here's a list of such files.
TBC.
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