Convert obsolete game videos (BFI) online for free
The converter easily converts your BFI game videos to various formats - free and online. No FFmpeg or or other Video software needed.
To convert other file formats to the "Retro Game Video" file type, you need software like FFmpeg or a similar tool.
.BFI files are full-motion video (FMV) containers specifically designed by Tsunami Media, Inc. in the early 1990s. They were used exclusively for storing video cutscenes in interactive MS-DOS and Windows games like Blue Force and Flash Traffic: City of Angels.
Originally, these proprietary files were played natively by the game's own executable. Today, the open-source multimedia framework FFmpeg and VLC Media Player are the primary tools capable of decoding the archaic video and audio streams.
The major disadvantage of the .BFI format is its extreme obsolescence. It relies on a closed, 8-bit palettized compression scheme that modern operating systems, web browsers, and smart devices cannot recognize. The files typically feature very low resolutions and outdated audio interleaving. Attempting to open them natively on a modern PC will result in an unrecognized format error, and you cannot upload them to platforms like YouTube.
To make these retro videos watchable, you must convert them to widely supported formats like MP4 (H.264), AVI, or MKV. Converting to MP4 ensures the files will play effortlessly on smartphones and modern media players, though the original low-resolution, pixelated quality cannot be artificially improved.
Because this file format is difficult to open and highly proprietary, standard online converters frequently fail to process it. Just drag and drop your file onto convert.guru to identify the format, view its internal structure, and convert it if the underlying streams are supported.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your BFI file.
Users also converted BWM, BXI and BJK files.
If you want to convert BFI file to , you can use FFmpeg or similar software from the "Retro Game Video Storage" 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 BFI, try FFmpeg or another comparable tool in the "Retro Game Video Storage" category.
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 BFI converter.