DCB Converter

Extract text from DCB files

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Drop or upload your .DCB file

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How to extract text from your DCB file

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

Convert DCB to another file type

To convert your DCB file to another format, you need God of War or other Game software.

DCB to DB
DCB to SQLITE
DCB to SQLITE3
DCB to MDB
DCB to ACCDB
DCB to DBF
DCB to ODB
DCB to FDB
DCB to GDB
DCB to MYD
DCB to FRM
DCB to SQL

Convert a file to DCB

To convert other file formats to the "Data Container" file type, you need software like God of War or a similar tool.

NDF to DCB
SQLITE3 to DCB
BAK to DCB
RDB to DCB
SQL to DCB
DB4 to DCB
MDF to DCB
MDB to DCB
LDF to DCB
DB to DCB
DB3 to DCB
SQLITE to DCB

About DCB files

The .DCB extension serves two distinct but distinctively problematic masters: high-performance gaming and legal document review. Primarily, it functions as a God of War Data File, a proprietary binary container used by Santa Monica Studio to store compiled game assets like textures, scripts, and level data for the God of War franchise. These files are optimized for console hardware, making them inherently hostile to standard PC software - users cannot simply double-click to view them. A common source of frustration for modders is the lack of public documentation on the compression algorithm, requiring specialized community-made extractors to access the contents.

Alternatively, in the legal and business sector, a .DCB file represents a Concordance Database control file developed by LexisNexis. These files act as the backbone for legacy e-discovery databases, linking document images to text and metadata. The friction here is significant: modern legal teams often struggle to migrate these older databases to cloud platforms without losing relational data or incurring high licensing fees for discontinued software.

Best Conversion Targets:

For Gamers/Modders: Convert internal textures to PNG or TGA and models to OBJ using specific extraction tools (files are typically read-only).
For Legal/Admin: Convert Concordance databases to CSV or XLSX (Excel) to make the data accessible without the original proprietary host.
For Geotechnical: Convert GGU-Software borehole data to PDF for reporting.

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

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The DCB 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 DCB converter.