Alarm clock "i need to sleepies" .... one of you boffins must know were and how i can play the ratonga emotes, there are folders full of mp3 music within eq2 but wheres those pesky ratonga emotes hiding? i want to use them on my phone.

They're spread across multiple VPK files. Go look for the eq2 vpk tool written by blaz, use it to open the assets.vpl file in the main eq2 directory of your installation, then scroll til you find the ratonga sounds and extract the ones you're looking for. Going to take some hunting to get the right ones.

To save you some time, the ratonga /yawn emotes are located here (if you do what Erys suggested):

assetslib.vlp\voiceover\english\voice_emotes\yawn\yawn_1_1043.mp3
assetslib.vlp\voiceover\english\voice_emotes\yawn\yawn_1_1044.mp3
assetslib.vlp\voiceover\english\voice_emotes\yawn\yawn_1_1045.mp3
assetslib.vlp\voiceover\english\voice_emotes\yawn\yawn_1_1046.mp3

Excellent thnx, a guildie did me the combat ones, ive never heard a ratonga drown before , poor little fella.

I spent a few minutes last night extracting all the ratonga emotes, then remembered theres 3 in each one, x4 , going to have so much fun. One thing i did notice, theres also some other longer named mp3 files but they wont play, think they must be long converstaion that the npcs have, any ideas why they wont play, id love to hear them all.

The ones with an .mp3 and an .ls file? Not sure how to play those either, if you find out please let us know, I'd love to be able to hear the voices of some of the NPCs they took out of the game again, like Steward Quyntar: "I trust you are enjoying this splendid day? Safe travels to you." as well as the Isle of Refuge (oh how I miss that place) stuff.

I certainly wills the ones my guildie sent me , he had to convert them to wav files to play, they came from the combat voices, which i havent had time to look at there structure yet. Whilst pll are roasting there nuts on a open fire, ill be tinkering in my bedroom

The combat voices are stored as .wav already inside the .vpk files so no need to convert those to wav, just extract them

Will have to look into this

But what on Earth is a boffin?

You.

You are a boffin.

I'll take that as a compliment!