Read Item-sparse File

[Seija]

Hello There,

I'm currently trying to do some data mining to get some Item data out of World of Warcraft.
Now I have found two files in the World of Warcraft folder: \Cache\de_DE\Item-sparse.db2 and \Data\Cache\de_DE\*.mpq\DBClientFiles\Item-sparse.db2

The file in \Cache\de_DE is no problem to read. But I don't know how to read the file in \Data\Cache\...

It seems to have the same format, but when I read it I only get crap out of it.

Does anybody know the format of this file?
Or any other idea to get an itemlist out of World of Warcraft?

Greets
Seija

[Jtech13]

The item.db2 is a replacement for the item.dbc file, and the item-sparse.db2 file is the new location for all items that are in WoW... the only way your going to get the info you are after is to crack that database...