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This wiki aims to document the multitude of formats found throughout The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker in one place. At this point in time, we intend to transfer and expand upon the information from a wiki written mainly by Gamma/Sage of Mirrors on a repo of WindEditor written by LordNed to this wiki.

File Formats

Audio

Extension	Description
AAF	?
AFC	Audio stream
AW	Instrument sample bank
BMS	Sequenced music
TBL	?

Maps

Maps are analogous to scenes in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. They contain rooms and resources that are independent of rooms, such as door models, the event_list.dat file, and the skybox.

Extension	Description
event_list.dat	Scene events
DZB	Collision mesh
DZR	Room object layout
DZS	Scene object layout

Visual Assets

Extension	Description
BCK	Bone animation
BDL	Model with FIFO instructions
BMD	Model
BMT	Alternate material
BRK	TEV register animation
BTI	Texture image
BTK	Texture coordinate animation ("texture scrolling")
BTP	Texture palette animation ("flipbook")

Miscellaneous

Extension	Description
ARC	RARC archive
BFN	Font data
BLO	UI layout
BMC	Font colors
BMG	Text bank
DDS	Pictobox image
JPC	Particle bank
STB	Cut scene layout

Named Files

These files have generic extensions, so they are referred to by name here.

Name	Description
ActorDat.bin	Enemy item drop settings
item_table.bin	Grass/pot item drop settings
FmapDat.bin	?
Menu1.dat	Debug map select layout

Resources

Name	Description
Item ID Table	Key for matching IDs to actual items
List of Chunk Types	Listing of chunk types that can be found in DZR and DZS files