DBA Converter

Extract text from Game database files (DBA)


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

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

Convert DBA to another file type

To convert DBA Game databases to another format, you need CryEngine and SQLite or other Database software.

Convert a file to DBA

To convert other file formats to the "Multi-format Database Archive" file type, you need software like CryEngine and SQLite or a similar tool.


About DBA files

The .DBA file extension is a highly fragmented format primarily used to store structured databases, compiled objects, or game archives. Its most frequent modern application is as an animation database within CryEngine, or as an underlying SQLite or Microsoft Jet database. Historically, it was heavily utilized by Palm Desktop Software to store local calendar and datebook events.

Opening a .DBA file completely depends on its origin. CryEngine animation files require the native developer editor to view. Standard SQLite variants can be explored using open-source tools like DB Browser for SQLite. Legacy Palm files rely on obsolete synchronization software that is incompatible with modern operating systems.

Because .DBA files often function as proprietary game asset containers or obsolete PDA data files, direct conversion is challenging. The data is usually locked inside a closed ecosystem, undocumented, or encrypted. Standard online converters fail to process them because they expect common document types, rather than raw, proprietary database schemas.

If the file is an accessible SQLite or JetDB database, it can easily be queried and exported to standard target formats like CSV, SQL, or TXT. For legacy Palm datebooks, users typically need specialized scripts to extract events into standard ICS calendar formats.

Ultimately, this file format is difficult to open or convert because only the original software can properly read or export the structured data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying format like SQLite, extracting your data may still be possible.

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

Users also converted DATABASE, DB, BAK, DBPRO, G, CIA, LLC, PHD, DBC and NC files.


FAQ

If you want to convert DBA file to LLC, PHD, DB, DBC, NC, BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC or ZIP, you can use CryEngine and SQLite or similar software from the "Database and Game Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert SNAPSHOT, OLD, IMG, RESTORE, ISO, COPY, VMDK, TMP, VHD, BAK, ARCHIVE or BACKUP files to DBA, try CryEngine and SQLite or another comparable tool in the "Database and Game Archive" category.



The DBA 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 DBA converter.