BTI Converter

Extract text from Nintendo texture files (BTI)


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

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

Convert BTI to another file type

To convert BTI textures to another format, you need BrawlBox or other Game software.

Convert a file to BTI

To convert other file formats to the "Console Game Texture" file type, you need software like BrawlBox or a similar tool.


About BTI files

The .BTI file format is a proprietary Nintendo Texture File used extensively in Nintendo GameCube and Wii video games. Game developers use these files to store 2D image assets that are mapped onto 3D models during gameplay. Officially, these files were compiled using the proprietary Nintendo SDK. Today, modders and ROM hackers use community-built tools like BrawlBox or WiiExplorer to open, extract, or inject these textures. The current format is highly specialized and closed. It is not supported by web browsers or standard operating system image viewers. You cannot simply double-click a .BTI file to view it on Windows or macOS. Standard image converters completely fail because the file uses proprietary swizzling and hardware-specific compression methods like CMPR (Nintendo's variant of DXT1). Modders usually need to convert .BTI to standard raster formats like PNG or DDS to edit them in standard graphic design software. Converting to PNG ensures lossless editing, but you must convert it back to .BTI to inject it back into the game data. Because this is a closed console format, standard online converters typically crash or output corrupted pixel data. If our analysis detects supported underlying standard bitmap data or recognizable headers, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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

Users also converted PNG files.


FAQ

If you want to convert BTI file to JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO, CUR, PSD or PSB, you can use BrawlBox or similar software from the "Game Texture Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to BTI, try BrawlBox or another comparable tool in the "Game Texture Storage" category.



The BTI 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 BTI converter.