DPG Converter

Convert Nintendo DS movies (DPG) online for free


Drop or upload your .DPG file

How to convert your DPG file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DPG file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert DPG to another file type

The converter easily converts your DPG movies to various formats - free and online. No MoonShell or or other Video software needed.

  • DPG to MP4
  • DPG to AVI
  • DPG to MOV
  • DPG to WMV
  • DPG to FLV
  • DPG to WEBM
  • DPG to MKV
  • DPG to M4V
  • DPG to 3GP
  • DPG to OGV
  • DPG to ASF
  • DPG to RM

Convert a file to DPG

To convert other file formats to the "Console Media File" file type, you need software like MoonShell or a similar tool.


About DPG files

The .DPG file format is a specialized video container designed exclusively for the Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. It is primarily used to play full-motion video and movies via MoonShell, a popular homebrew media player. The format relies on a highly compressed structure to accommodate the limited processing power and memory of legacy DS hardware, combining an MPEG-1 video stream with an MP2 or GSM audio track. Outside of the niche retro gaming scene, .DPG files present massive usability problems. The format is extremely proprietary and outdated. Standard media players like VLC media player or Windows Media Player cannot open it natively without specific plugins. Furthermore, the video resolution is locked to the small DS screen limits, resulting in severely pixelated playback on modern monitors. You cannot upload these files to YouTube or share them directly on social media. To watch these videos on a PC, smartphone, or tablet, you must convert them. For general playback and web sharing, convert to MP4. If you need to archive the raw video streams, convert to AVI or MKV. Drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing extra software. A secondary use for the .DPG extension is as a mathematical graphing file for DPGraph, a legacy 3D graphing application, though these files contain proprietary math datasets rather than media.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your DPG file.

Users also converted MP4, DNG, RVID, PDF, AVI, PDG, JPG, DWG, MKV, JPEG and DOCX files.


FAQ

If you want to convert DPG file to , you can use MoonShell or similar software from the "Nintendo DS Video Playback" 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 DPG, try MoonShell or another comparable tool in the "Nintendo DS Video Playback" category.



The DPG 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 DPG converter.