BYTES Converter

Extract text from Unity binary files (BYTES)


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

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

Convert BYTES to another file type

To convert BYTES binary files to another format, you need Unity or other Game software.

Convert a file to BYTES

To convert other file formats to the "Binary Data Wrapper" file type, you need software like Unity or a similar tool.


About BYTES files

The .bytes file extension is utilized as a generic binary data wrapper, primarily within the Unity game engine. Developers use this format to force the engine to recognize arbitrary files, such as encrypted game saves or custom databases, as a TextAsset object. Outside of Unity, this extension is also heavily used by FMOD for sound banks and by various game studios for data caching. The main disadvantage of a .bytes file is its complete lack of standardization. It provides zero metadata to your operating system, meaning no web browser, standard text editor, or media player can open it by default. Attempting to open these files in basic text editors usually results in software crashes or unreadable gibberish. Furthermore, because a .bytes file might internally be a ZIP archive, a PNG image, or an SQL database, standard format-to-format online converters instantly fail. To extract or convert a .bytes file, you must first determine what is hidden inside. If the file contains an embedded database, your target format should be SQL. If it wraps a UnityFS archive, you need specialized tools to extract FBX or WAV files. Because this is a closed, proprietary wrapper, it is notoriously difficult to open without the engine that created it. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible, bypassing the blind extension entirely.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert BYTES file to MB, GB, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF or DAT, you can use Unity or similar software from the "Game Engine Asset 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 BYTES, try Unity or another comparable tool in the "Game Engine Asset Storage" category.



The BYTES 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 BYTES converter.