You can extract and watch the movies in Myst III: Exile without playing the game. To do this, first download and install the following tools:
- FMV-Extractor 1.2 (0.5 MB) – www.necrotech.de (available for Windows only — sorry, Mac folks!)
- RAD Video Tools (1.2 MB) – www.radgametools.com
Then follow these steps:
- Insert an Exile CD into the CD-ROM drive. If the Exile startup window appears, click Quit.
- Start FMV-Extractor.
- Clear all check boxes except for “Bink Video”. (This speeds up the extraction process.)
- On the Source menu, click “Select Source File”. In the Look In box, select the Exile CD. Then open the Data folder and double-click a file with the extension “m3a”.
- On the Source menu, click “Start Analysis”. FMV-Extractor displays all the movies that it finds.
- Double-click an entry to view it.
The help file for FMV-Extractor explains how to save movies to your hard disk.