Find the file. Copy it out. Leave the archive untouched.
AuroraForge NT100 reads the selected archive and uses the Oodle library already included with your installed game. It does not bundle game files or write back into a CAK.
Choose your WWE 2K game folder
The extractor uses this folder to find every .cak archive and the game-provided Oodle decompressor. You only need to choose it once. Pick the version you are working on below, or leave auto-detect on: WWE 2K25 opens through the bundled native backend, 2K22-2K26 through the built-in readers, and WWE 2K19 archives are PAC files handled by the PAC Explorer.
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0 file(s) selected
Choose a separate output folder.No archive is open.
Rebuild an extracted mod folder into a game-ready CAK
Extract files above, edit them without changing their relative paths, then choose that output folder here. AuroraForge NT100 excludes the selected folder's own name and rebuilds its contents as a protected WWE 2K26 FDIR archive.
The saved .cak filename is part of WWE 2K26's encryption key. Aurora derives the correct v9.9 key from the final filename automatically, so you may choose any name—but do not rename the CAK after building it. Rebuild it under the new name instead.
_textures.tdb is not baked into separate mod CAKs. Texture replacements rely on existing metadata so multiple active mods do not fight over duplicate root texture databases.
No BakeMe folder selected.Original game archives remain read-only
AuroraForge NT100 never changes the selected CAK. Every confirmed path is built into the release. A payload with an unknown name can still be extracted into an Unresolved folder under a generated hash name. An external reference cannot be extracted from the selected CAK because that catalog record contains no payload bytes. Keep extracted game assets for personal modding and do not redistribute copyrighted game content.