List of Sims 2 Formats by Name

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===Formats sorted by Type Code===

RCOL - xxxxxxxx - Scenegraph format for many of the object/building/sim files used in the game PSET - xxxxxxxx - PropertySet format. A general property format used in the game. WDB - xxxxxxxx - WorldDB format for many of the lot files used in the game.

WDB 2ARY - 6B943B43 - 2D Array WDB 3ARY - 2A51171B - 3D Array RCOL 5DS - AC06A676 - Lighting (Draw State Light) (Extension - 5ds) RCOL 5EL - 6A97042F - Lighting (Environment Cube Light) (Extension - 5el) RCOL 5LF - AC06A66F - Lighting (Linear Fog Light) (Extension - 5lf) RCOL 5SC - 25232B11 - Scene Node (Extension - 5sc) RCOL ANIM - FB00791E - Animation Resource (Extension - 6an / 5an) BCON - 42434F4E - Simantics Behaviour Constant BHAV - 42484156 - Simantics Behaviour Script BMP - 856DDBAC - Bitmaps (Extension - bmp) BMP - 424D505F - Bitmaps CATS - 43415453 - Catalog String CIGE - 43494745 - Image Link (CIGE is the typecode) RCOL CINE - 4D51F042 - Cinematic Scenes (Such as first kiss, moving in, etc) (Extension - 5cs) CREG - CDB467B8 - Content Registry RCOL CRES - E519C933 - Resource Node (CRES - cResourceNode)(Base Object file) (Extension - 5cr) STR CTSS - 43545353 - Catalog String Set (name and description) DGRP - 44475250 - Drawgroup DIR - E86B1EEF - DBDF Directory (part of DBPF format used for fast loads) (.dir/.bin used currently) FACE - 46414345 - Face Properties FAMh - 46414d68 - Family Data FAMI - 46414D49 - Family Information FAMt - 8C870743 - Family Ties FCNS - 46434E53 - Global Tuning Values WDB FPL - AB4BA572 - Fence Post Layer FWAV - 46574156 - Audio Reference FX - EA5118B0 - Effects Resource Tree (Extension - fx) GLOB - 474C4F42 - Semi-Globals (references global files) GMDC - AC4F8687 - Geometric Data Container (Extension - 5gd) RCOL GMND - 7BA3838C - Geometric Node (Extension - 5gn) HLS - 7B1ACFCD - Hitlist (new) HOUS - 484F5553 - House Data JFIF - 0C7E9A76 - JPEG/JFIF Image (Extension - jfif) JFIF - 4D533EDD - JPEG/JFIF Image JFIF - 856DDBAC - JPEG/JFIF Image JFIF - 8C3CE95A - JPEG/JFIF Image DESC LDEF - 0BF999E7 - Lot or Tutorial Description (formerly DESC) RCOL LGHT - C9C81B9B - Lighting (Ambient Light) (Extension - 5al) RCOL LGHT - C9C81BA3 - Lighting (Directional Light) (Extension - 5dl) RCOL LGHT - C9C81BA9 - Lighting (Point Light) (Extension - 5pl) RCOL LGHT - C9C81BAD - Lighting (Spot Light) (Extension - 5sl) LIFO - RCOL ED534136 - Level Information (Large mipmaps) (Extension - 6li) LOT - 6C589723 - Lot Definition LSCP - ABCB5DA4 - Landscape LxNR - CCCEF852 - Facial Structure MATSHAD - CD7FE87A - Maxis Material Shader (Extension - matshad) MP3 - 2026960B - MP3 Audio (Extension - mp3) NGBH - 4E474248 - Neighborhood Data NID - AC8A7A2E - Neighbourhood ID NMAP - 4E6D6150 - Name Map NREF - 4E524546 - Name Reference OBJD - 4F424A44 - Object Data OBJf - 4F424A66 - Object Functions ObjM - 4F626A4D - Object Metadata OBMI - 4F626A4D - Object Metadata Imposter Mobjt - 6F626A74 - Main Lot Objects WDB objt - FA1C39F7 - Singular Lot Object PALT - 50414C54 - Image Color Palette PDAT - AACE2EFB - Person Data (Formerly SDSC/SINF/SDAT) PERS - 50455253 - Person Status PMAP - 8CC0A14B - Predictive Map PNG - 856DDBAC - PNG Image (Extension - png) POSI - 504F5349 - Edith Positional Information (deprecated, precursor to TREE) PTBP - 50544250 - Package Toolkit STXR - ACE46235 - Surface Texture SFX - 8DB5E4C2 - Sound Effects RCOL SHPE - FC6EB1F7 - Shape (Extension - 5sh) SIMI - 53494D49 - Sim Information? SKIN - AC506764 - Sim Outfits SLOT - 534C4F54 - Object Slot - Approach and interaction WDB SMAP - CAC4FC40 - String Map SPR2 - 53505232 - Sprites SPX1 - 2026960B - SPX Speech SREL - CC364C2A - Sim Relations STR STR# - 53545223 - Text String TATT - 54415454 - Tree Attributes TGA - 856DDBAC - Targa Image (Extension - tga) TMAP - 4B58975B - Lot or Terrain Texture Map TPRP - 54505250 - Tree Properties (labels for locals) TRCN - 5452434E - Tree Constants (labels for BCON) TREE - 54524545 - Tree Data (flowchart data) WDB TSSG - BA353CE1 - The Sims SG System TTAB - 54544142 - Pie Menu Functions (Tree Table) STR TTAs - 54544173 - Pie Menu Strings (Tree Table Strings) RCOL TXMT - 49596978 - Material Definitions (Formerly MATD) (Extension - 5tm) RCOL TXTR - 1C4A276C - Texture (Extension - 6tx) UI - 00000000 - User Interface (Extension - uiScript) WDB VERT - CB4387A1 - Vertex Layer WFR - CD95548E - Wants and Fears WDB WGRA - 0A284D0B - Wall Graph WDB WLL - 8A84D7B0 - Wall Layer WDB WRLD - 49FF7D76 - World Database XA - 2026960B - XA Audio (Extension - xa) XMTO - 584D544F - Material Object Class Dump XOBJ - 584F424A - Object Class Dump (same literal format as above)

TAB - xxxxxxxx - Accelerator Table (Extension - accelerator) FSC - xxxxxxxx - Freshness Score (Extension - fsc) SCR - xxxxxxxx - Sound Script INI - xxxxxxxx - Initialization script (Extension - ini) HIT - xxxxxxxx - Hitlist (old format) (Extension - hit)

UNKN - 0C900FDB - Unknown (These are all in lot packages) UNKN - 2C310F46 - Unknown UNKN - 8B0C79D6 - Unknown UNKN - 9D796DB4 - Unknown UNKN - AB9406AA - Unknown UNKN - ABD0DC63 - Unknown UNKN - CC2A6A34 - Unknown UNKN - CC8A6A69 - Unknown UNKN - EC44BDDC - Unknown UNKN - 0F9F0C21 - Unknown (from Nightlife)