Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your A3 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert A3 to another file type
To convert A3 mods to another format, you need Far Cry Mod Installer or other Game software.
Convert a file to A3
To convert other file formats to the "Game Mod File" file type, you need software like Far Cry Mod Installer or a similar tool.
About A3 files
An .A3 file is most commonly a Far Cry game modification archive. These files store customized textures, models, scripts, and configurations used to alter the gameplay of the Far Cry video game series, frequently distributed on sites like Nexus Mods. Less frequently, an .A3 file is a standard Jet Database file associated with the Microsoft Jet Database Engine used by older versions of Microsoft Access. The main problem with the .A3 format is its highly specialized nature. If you do not have the Far Cry Mod Installer installed, the mod files are functionally useless to the average user and cannot be natively recognized by your operating system. For the database variant, older JetDB files require legacy Windows software to read and pose integration challenges with modern cloud databases. Users often need to convert or extract these files to inspect their internal assets, edit game scripts, or migrate legacy database records to newer systems. For the Far Cry mod files, the best conversion target is ZIP or RAR, as the internal structure is already a standard ZIP container. For the database files, converting to CSV or SQL is recommended to make the data readable in modern spreadsheet applications, though complex relational queries may be lost in the transfer. Converting an .A3 file directly is difficult because standard online converters do not recognize the dual-nature of this extension and fail to process it. Often, only the original Mod Installer or native database tools can properly read or export the structured data. If our analysis detects the underlying ZIP or JetDB structure, viewing or extraction may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your A3 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert A3 file to A1, MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV or ASF, you can use Far Cry Mod Installer or similar software from the "Game Modification Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MTS, MOV, RMVB, DIVX, RM, H264, TS, WMV, VOB, MP4, XVID or AVI files to A3, try Far Cry Mod Installer or another comparable tool in the "Game Modification Archive" category.
The A3 Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our A3 converter.