Sims File Explorer

Lightweight explorer for The Sims 1 archive formats.

Features

• Browse .far archives
• Browse .iff resource contents
• Quick inspection of resource metadata and raw data
• Read archives directly without extraction
• Supports exploring one level of ZIP nesting
• Designed for fast browsing and research, not editing

Current Limitations

• No editing functionality
• No export functionality
• No support for The Sims 1.0 IFF format
• Some IFF files do not parse correctly
• IFFs contained inside archive combinations (zip, far, rar, nested archives, etc.) can be problematic

Planned

• Open Folder mode (avoid displaying the entire system tree)
• Export any selected tree branch to ASCII/text
• Unlimited nested archive exploration
  • ZIP inside ZIP
  • FAR inside ZIP
  • IFF inside FAR inside ZIP
  • Other mixed archive combinations
• Improved handling of IFF resources using RSMP chunk data
• Better support for large historical custom-content archive collections

Status

Early exploration tool focused on viewing archive structures and IFF resource data quickly.