BEA Converter

Extract text from BEA files


Drop or upload your .BEA file
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How to extract text from your BEA file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BEA file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert BEA to another file type

To convert your BEA file to another format, you need Switch Toolbox or other Game software.

Convert a file to BEA

To convert other file formats to the "Game Archive" file type, you need software like Switch Toolbox or a similar tool.


About BEA files

A .bea file is a Bezel Engine Archive, a proprietary game data container used by Nintendo's internal Bezel Engine. This format acts as a scene descriptor or asset archive for Nintendo Switch titles like Super Mario Party, WarioWare: Get It Together!, and Tetris 99. Inside a .bea file, you will typically find compressed level layouts, 3D model placements, and game logic data. Because it is a compiled binary format designed for the Nintendo Switch hardware, it cannot be opened by standard archiving tools like WinRAR or 3D editors like Blender directly. Users usually need to convert or extract these files to access the 3D assets (models, textures) inside for modding, level editing, or archival purposes. The primary workflow involves using specialized reverse-engineering tools to decompile the binary data into editable XML text or export the embedded 3D scenes to standard formats like OBJ, FBX, or DAE (Collada).

Convert.Guru analyzes your BEA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted BIG, EZ and PHZ files.


FAQ

If you want to convert BEA file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Switch Toolbox or similar software from the "Game Asset Archive" 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 BEA, try Switch Toolbox or another comparable tool in the "Game Asset Archive" category.



The BEA 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 BEA converter.