List of File Formats

This article contains a list of file formats in Mario Kart 8. For a comparison with Mario Kart Wii see Comparison of Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart Wii File Formats.

Name	Description
AAMP	Compressed files.
BAGLCUBE	Unknown. AAMP compressed file. Might be related to BAGLMF, BAGLENV, BAGLCCR, BAGLLMAP, BGSDW.
BARS	Sound files archive.
BFBNK	Sound bank found into BFSAR files.
BFFNT	Font files used to display text.
BFGRP	Sound bank/wave group found into BFSAR files.
BFLAN	Layout animation.
BFLIM	Layout image.
BFLYT	Layout.
BFRES	Object files, containing model, animation, and texture information of an object, such as an item, a character or a course.
BFSAR	Sound archive file containing banks, sequences and sound effects.
BFSEQ	MIDI-like sequence files found into BRSAR.
BFSHA	Shader files.
BFSTM	Music files.
BFWAR	Sound wave archive found into BRSAR.
BFWSD	Sound wave files found into BRSAR.
BGENV	Post-effect information.
BGLPBD	Probably baked textures related data.
BIN	Binary lookup tables, mostly consisting of integer arrays and/or strings.
BSIS	Audio database.
BYAML	A generic data container format, like a binary version of XML.
CPSD	Probably Mii related data.
DAT	Unknown. FFRA compressed file. Also used in Miitomo in AFLResHigh.dat.
EXBIN	Unknown.
FMDL	Model data and usually a sub file of BFRES archives.
FTEX	Texture files and usually a sub file of BFRES archives.
GTX/GSH	Texture/shader file.
KCL	Collision information files.
MSBT	Message files containing localized text for use in game screens and menus.
PTCL	Graphic particle file.
SARC	File archive with a hierarchical file system. Most used together with Yaz0 compression and stored as SZS file. Otherwise often seen with the BARS extension.
SHARCFB	Compressed BAHS.
YAZ0	Lossless data compression algorithm.

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