diff --git a/extractscripts.sh b/extractscripts.sh
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+#!/bin/env bash
+
+# All filepaths referenced here are relative to the current working directory. This is to allow the tool to be placed anywhere on $PATH as 
+# long as `installdeps.sh` was able to generate the compilation dependencies folder
+
+DISCFILESPATH="./GQSE78"
+deps/gcm extract GSQE78.iso $DISCFILESPATH  #extract files from disc
+
+DATAPATH="$DISCFILESPATH/DATA/"
+DECOMPATH="./DATA-decompressed/"
+SCRIPPATH="./DATA-levelscripts/"
+
+DecompylePycFiles() {
+	for k in $(ls $1); do
+		echo -n "| Decompiling $1$k >>> ${1//$DECOMPATH/$SCRIPPATH}${k//.PYC/.py} ... "
+		mkdir -p "${1//$DECOMPATH/$SCRIPPATH}"
+		dd if=$1$k of=tmp.pyc bs=1 skip=4 2>/dev/null # remove first 4 bytes of file (random garbage?) Will be changed if needed.
+		rm $1$k
+		mv tmp.pyc $1$k
+		pycdc -c $1$k -v 2.1 -o ${1//$DECOMPATH/$SCRIPPATH}${k//.PYC/.py} #decompile pyc file to the human readable .py format
+		if (echo $? >/dev/null); then
+			echo "Success"
+		fi
+	done
+}
+
+ExtractArchives() {
+	for j in $(ls $1*.NGC | awk -F'/' '{print $NF}' | awk -F'.' '{print $1}'); do
+		OUTPATH=${1//$DATAPATH/$DECOMPATH}$j
+		echo -n "Extracting $1$j.*GC >>> $OUTPATH/ ... "
+		deps/chumcli extract $1$j.NGC $1$j.DGC $OUTPATH/ --replace --ngc #extract NGC and DGC archive to decompressed files dir
+
+		if [ -d "$OUTPATH/SCRIPTS" ]; then
+			DecompylePycFiles $OUTPATH/SCRIPTS/$j/PYTHON/ #run decompiler on the newly compressed scripts
+			DecompylePycFiles $OUTPATH/PYTHON/
+		fi
+	done
+}
+
+#actual program start (the above is defining the functions that will be run)
+
+ExtractArchives $DATAPATH
+
+for i in $(ls -d $DATAPATH*/); do
+	ExtractArchives $i
+done
diff --git a/installdeps.sh b/installdeps.sh
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+#!/bin/env bash
+
+if (command -v git >/dev/null); then echo -n ""; else
+	echo "Git is not installed. Please use your system"
+	echo "  package manager to install git."
+	echo "  e.g. \`sudo apt install git\` on ubuntu"
+	echo "  or \`sudo pacman -S git\` on arch."
+	exit 1
+fi
+if (command -v cargo >/dev/null); then echo -n ""; else
+	echo "Cargo is not installed. Please use your system"
+	echo "  package manager to install cargo."
+	echo "  e.g. \`sudo apt install cargo\` on ubuntu"
+	echo "  or \`sudo pacman -S cargo\` on arch."
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+mkdir deps
+cd deps
+echo "preparing to compile chumcli (extracts files from NGC/DGC and NPC/DPC archives)..."
+git clone -n https://github.com/Jellonator/chum-world.git
+cd chum-world
+git checkout -q afdb15845eec18ee964b1ebea7019ff45a0dce66 #last commit before a breaking change was made to chumlib
+cd chumcli
+cargo build
+cp target/debug/chumcli ../../
+cd ../../
+rm -rf chum-world
+echo "compiling chumcli complete."
+echo "preparing to compile gc-gcm (extracts files from gcm disc image (gamecube disc))"
+PATH=./bin:$PATH CARGO_INSTALL_ROOT=./ cargo install gc-gcm --features=bin 
+mv ./bin/gcm .
+rmdir bin
+rm .crates.toml .crates2.json
+echo "compiling gc-gcm complete."
+
+if (command -v pycdc >/dev/null) then echo -n ""; else
+	echo "pycdc is not installed. Please use your system"
+	echo "  package manager to install pycdc."
+	echo "  e.g. \`snap install pycdc\` on ubuntu"
+	echo "  or install it from the aur on arch:"
+	echo "    \`git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pycdc-git.git\`"
+	echo "    \`cd pycdc                                         \`"
+	echo "    \`makepkg -sic                                     \`"
+fi
+
+echo "downloading python 2.1 from https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.1.3/Python-2.1.3.exe"
+curl -o "./python-2.1.exe" "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.1.3/Python-2.1.3.exe"
+echo "download complete."
+
+if (command -v wine >/dev/null) then echo -n ""; else
+	echo "Wine is not installed. Please use your system"
+	echo "  package manager to install wine."
+	echo "  e.g. \`sudo apt install wine\` on ubuntu"
+	echo "  or \`sudo pacman -S wine\` on arch."
+fi