Game data files

File Format
Name	Game data files
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Game data files ; ;

Revision as of 15:38, 6 December 2019

Overview

Many popular games use proprietary file formats to store their assets. These include custom image, sound and video formats and custom archive formats. There is no way that all of these can be enumerated here in some way or another. And as long as the games can still be run by an Emulator it's not that much of a deal. However, a lot of work has been put into deciphering, decrypting and hacking these files, and that work should be preserved.

See also: Interactive Fiction for data formats related to text adventure games, Puzzles for puzzle-game files, and Saved Games for data saved by games to store a player's game status.

References

Xentax Wiki
ReWiki
QuickBMS, a tool suite to describe archives in an abstract BASIC-like language, and lots of scripts for even more games

General Game Formats

This section details formats such as Interplay ACM and Unreal Music Format which are used in a number of games.

Other

Allegro (game programming library)
- Allegro packfile

Blizzard Entertainment
- BLP
- MoPaQ

Electronic Arts
- Electronic Arts INF
- Electronic Arts MOV

id Software
- BSP (map format used in Quake)
- Doom WAD
- Quake PAK
- Quake PK3 (actually ZIP)

Infinity Engine
- BAM

NetImmerse / Gamebryo Engine
- KF
- NIF

Nintendo GameCube
- Nintendo GameCube Opening.bnr

Nintendo GameCube / Wii

Nintendo Wii

Outerra engine (.otx) (used in Anteworld game)

Raven Software game engine
- GLA - Ghoul animation (.gla)
- GLM - Ghoul mesh (.glm)

STOS memory bank (.mbk)

Torque 3D game engine
- DTS (.dts)

Valve Source Engine
- Valve Model Format (.mdl)
- Valve Collision Model (.phy)
- Valve Map Format (.vmf)
- Valve Material Type (.vmt)
- Valve Vertex Data (.vvd)
- Valve Texture Format (.vtf)

Xtremeworlds
- Xtremeworlds PWX
- Xtremeworlds map

ZZT

Individual Game Formats

This section details formats which are specific to a single game (or perhaps a game series), such as God of Thunder Music Format.

7 Days to Die
- TTS Prefab (.tts)
- 7DTD Map File (.map)
Age of Empires
- Data Resource File (.drs)
- Age of Empires Graphics File (.slp)
Age of Mythology
- BAR (Age of Mythology) (.bar archive)
Alter Ego (1986)
- Alter Ego Vignette Script format
Arma
- Arma PBO (.pbo)
Barony
- Barony Voxel (.vox)
BVE, OpenBVE, Boso View Express (railroad simulator)
- BVE object formats
- BVE route formats
- BVE train.dat file
Cartooners
- Cartooners actor file (.act)
- Electronic Arts INF‎ (.inf)
- Electronic Arts MOV (.mov)
- Electronic Arts MUS (.mus)
Cities Skylines
- Cities Skylines CRP (.crp)
Commander Keen 1
- Commander Keen 1 Level format (.ck1)
Core Wars
- RBJ (Redcode oBJect) (.rbj)
Crystal Caves
- Crystal Caves Sound format (.snd)
Dance With Intensity
- Dance With Intensity simfile (.dwi)
Dangerous Dave
- Dangerous Dave level format
- Dangerous Dave tileset format
- (also uses Inverse Frequency Sound format)
Dofus
- Dofus localization
Donkey Konga 2
- Donkey Konga 2 DSP
Doom
- Doom cheat code encryption
- Doom MUS (.mus)
- Doom WAD (.wad)
DTX Mania
- DTX Mania simfile
Duke Nukem
- Duke Nukem level format
- Duke Nukem graphics format
Fallout
- Fallout character description (.gcd)
Garry's Mod
- Garry's Mod Addon (.gma)
God of Thunder
- DAT (God of Thunder)
- God of Thunder Music Format
Grand Theft Auto
- RAGE Package Format (.rpf)
- RenderWare binary stream file (.dff)
In the Groove
- In the Groove PCK (.pck)
Kick It Up
- Kick It Up simfile (.ksf)
Lego Island
- Lego Island World Database (.wdb)
Magic & Mayhem
- Magic & Mayhem sprites file
Mario Kart Wii
- Wii BRFNT
- Wii BTI
Mario Paint
- Mario Paint Composer
- SHI
- SHO
Minecraft
- Minecraft Alpha level format
- Minecraft Anvil format
- Minecraft Bedrock Edition level format
- Minecraft chunk format
- Minecraft classic level format
- Minecraft classic server protocol
- Minecraft generated structures format
- Minecraft Indev level format
- Minecraft Java Edition level format
- Minecraft loot table
- Minecraft map item format
- Minecraft model
- Minecraft NBT format
- Minecraft player format
- Minecraft raids.dat format
- Minecraft Region format
- Minecraft server_level.dat
- Minecraft server list format
- Minecraft structure block file format
- Minecraft scoreboard format
- Minecraft sounds.json
- Minecraft villages.dat format
- Schematic file format
Pokémon
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
- Pokémon ROM
RobotWar
- RobotWar programming language
StarCraft
- StarCraft group file (.grp)
StepMania
- StepMania simfile (.sm)
- StepMania 5 simfile (.ssc)
- StepMania AMX simfile (.sma)
Stronghold
- Stronghold GM1 (.gm1)
- TGX Graphics (.tgx)
Supaplex
- Supaplex Level format (.dat)
Super Mario Galaxy
- Super Mario Galaxy savefile
Super Paper Mario
- BRSTMPSM (music data)
Total War
- Total War ESF (.esf)
Vinyl Goddess From Mars
- Vinyl Goddess From Mars Instrument Format
- Vinyl Goddess From Mars Music Format
Warcraft
- Warcraft II PUD (.pud) (custom maps)
Wiggle Planet
- Wiglet
Wii Fit / Wii Fit Plus
- Wii Fit BMG

Game hints

UHS

External links

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Revision as of 15:38, 6 December 2019

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