Open PACKAGE files in your browser
The file every mod and piece of custom content for The Sims 2, 3 and 4 comes in. Open one right here to see what's inside, its pictures and its text. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your file opens like a folder, its files listed on the left, with a page beside them on what it is and what it holds.
- Listed like a folder • Unpacks only what you pick
- A page on what it is • From its own manifest or index
- Pictures, sounds and text • Each opens in its viewer
- Export • Save as ZIP or Extract all
About PACKAGE
Maxis's games keep their content in packages, DBPF files: The Sims 2, 3 and 4 and SimCity 4. Every piece of custom content, a hairstyle, a dress, a sofa or a script mod's tuning, comes as a .package that goes in the game's Mods folder.
A package is a header, then its resources and an index that finds each by its type, group and instance, three numbers instead of a name. Each is stored as it is or packed with zlib or RefPack, and a name map in the package can name them, as modders' tools save it.
Filepeek lists the resources like a folder, one for each kind, like Images, String tables and Tuning, named by the name map when the package has one. Each is unpacked when it's picked and opens in its viewer, pictures in the image viewer and tuning as a tree.
The Sims package
.package
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Maxis
Inside the file
- Header
- DBPF and its version
- Resources
- By type, group and instance
- Packing
- zlib or RefPack
- Games
- The Sims 2, 3 and 4, SimCity 4
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens a package as a folder in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers only download it.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open PACKAGE
- WindowsSims 4 Studio • s4pe
- MacSims 4 Studio
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
Why don't a package's files have names?
A package finds its resources by three numbers, their type, group and instance, not by names. Filepeek names them by the package's name map when it has one, and by those numbers when it doesn't.
Can I take the pictures out?
Yes. Open a picture from the list, then choose Export, or choose Extract all or Save as ZIP to save every resource.