Director & Shockwave DCR Recovery

Recover a Director project, Lingo scripts, images, sounds and embedded media.

Drop your Director DCR movie here

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Recover files from a Director movie

Upload a published .dcr movie, or upload an archive and open a Director movie inside its results. Recognition uses the Director container signature.

Download project/recovered.dir for the reconstructed project. Open scripts/ for available Lingo source and media/ for named PNG images, MP3 or WAV sounds, text files, embedded SWF movies and Shockwave 3D W3D downloads. Unsupported assets remain in the project and as indexed data in resources/. The inventory and conversion notes are in director.json.

Open images and sounds for a preview, read recovered text, or open an embedded SWF with the Flash decompiler to inspect its graphics and scripts. Select View 3D on a W3D file for static asset inspection and a converted GLB download. Unsupported features and appearance approximations are reported in the viewer; animations and games are not played. Download individual files or the whole result ZIP. The original uploaded movie is preserved.

For a standalone Shockwave 3D file, open the W3D viewer online to preview it and download a static GLB.

Compatibility and recovery limits

Coverage focuses on published DCR movies. Image conversion supports common Director 4–10 bitmap layouts and palettes; audio conversion supports embedded MP3 and uncompressed PCM sound resources. Some compression formats, Xtras and external assets require additional support. Protected DXR movies, CCT/CXT casts and direct DIR/CST inspection are not yet qualified.

Input is limited to 64 MiB. Processing time, decompression, resources and output sizes are bounded. Some script or member types may be unsupported. Recovery notes identify incomplete output, and useful recovered files remain downloadable.

External casts and media may be needed to complete a project. Their recorded locations are listed when available, but this release does not resolve companion files or fetch embedded URLs or host paths.

Does this play Shockwave games?

No. This tool recovers files for inspection and preservation. It does not run Shockwave movies in the browser, verify their behavior or restore an exact original authoring project.

Is Director the same as Flash?

Director/Shockwave movies use Lingo and are separate from Flash SWF/FLA files. For Flash, use the SWF decompiler or FLA recovery tool.