Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BBQ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert BBQ to another file type
To convert BBQ asset bundles to another format, you need Legends of Runeterra or other Game software.
Convert a file to BBQ
To convert other file formats to the "Game Asset Bundle" file type, you need software like Legends of Runeterra or a similar tool.
About BBQ files
A .BBQ file is primarily a UnityFS game asset bundle utilized by the digital card game Legends of Runeterra. These files are proprietary and highly specialized, designed strictly to store game data like 3D meshes, textures, and audio files. In about 2% of cases, a .BBQ file is merely a standard 7Z compressed archive created by 7-Zip that has been renamed. Furthermore, a small fraction belongs to the classic game Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain as a game data archive managed via the BBQ Editor. Working with .BBQ files presents significant disadvantages. They are closed-source, deeply tied to specific software, and often exceed hundreds of megabytes. You cannot open them directly in a standard web browser or text editor. Standard online converters fail because they lack the specific Unity decompression libraries. If you need the contents, you must first extract the files rather than directly converting them to formats like JPG or MP3. If our analysis detects a supported embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BBQ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert BBQ file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Legends of Runeterra or similar software from the "Game Asset Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to BBQ, try Legends of Runeterra or another comparable tool in the "Game Asset Data Storage" category.
The BBQ 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 BBQ converter.