diff --git a/tools/resmap/addtypes.py b/tools/resmap/addtypes.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import sys
+import os
+import os.path
+import explorer
+import mastermap
+import relst
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 3:
+    basedir = os.path.join(os.path.pardir, os.path.pardir, "sc2", "content")
+else:
+    basedir = sys.argv[2]
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+    targetrmp = os.path.join (basedir, "uqm.rmp")
+else:
+    targetrmp = sys.argv[1]
+
+verbose = True
+
+types = ['UNKNOWN', 'KEY_CONFIG', 'GFXRES', 'FONTRES', 'STRTAB', 'SNDRES', 'MUSICRES', 'RES_INDEX', 'CODE']
+
+def read_types():
+    result = {}
+    pkgnames = explorer.collect_extension(basedir, '.ls2')
+    packages = [(x, explorer.read_list(x)) for x in pkgnames]
+    for (name, pkg) in packages:
+        for ((p, i, t), target) in pkg:
+            result[target] = types[t]
+    return result
+
+def convert_map (mapfile, typemap):
+    result = []
+    for line in file(mapfile):
+        xs = line.split('=', 1)
+        if len(xs) == 2:
+            resid = xs[0].strip()
+            resname = typemap[resid] + ":" + xs[1].strip()
+            result.append("%s = %s" % (resid, resname))
+    return result
+
+def go():
+    typemap = read_types()
+    for x in convert_map(targetrmp, typemap):
+        print x
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    go()
+