Package editor

Sim2PE is a third-party program which allows players to view (and often work with) the "package" files that The Sims 2 uses. It is compatible with The Sims 2, as well as all of its expansion packs and The Sims Stories series. It's probably most used for viewing and editing - and occasionally fixing - various things about the Sims themselves, though it can also work with objects, clothes, and meshes. It can be used to edit Sims' names. More advanced features allow players to add memories to Sims, change the family trees, and resurrect Sims that can't normally be resurrected with the Resurrect-O-Nomitron or other ways in-game. It can be used to clone objects and to extract resources from a "package" file, which makes it useful for creators of custom content.

As it is not compatible with The Sims 3, a Sims 3 version, called Sim3PE, was developed.