FMG Converter

Extract text from game text files (FMG)


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

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

Convert FMG to another file type

To convert FMG text files to another format, you need FromSoftware Engine or other Game software.

Convert a file to FMG

To convert other file formats to the "Localization Text File" file type, you need software like FromSoftware Engine or a similar tool.


About FMG files

The .FMG file is a proprietary game text and message data file used by the FromSoftware game engine for titles like Dark Souls and Elden Ring, as well as in the game Tales of Arise by Bandai Namco. It primarily stores UI text, dialogue, and item descriptions. To open and convert these files, modders rely on community-developed tools like WitchyBND or Yabber. Users need to convert this file because the .FMG format is highly proprietary, closed, and compiled into a binary structure. It is not supported by standard web browsers, and opening it in a basic word processor will result in corrupted, unreadable data. Modders and localization teams must extract this data to translate or alter in-game text. The best conversion target is XML, which safely retains the critical ID tags necessary for recompiling the game data. Alternatively, converting to TXT or CSV is useful for raw reading, though you lose the ability to easily repack the file. This file format is notoriously difficult to open or convert because standard online converters completely fail to understand its proprietary binary structure. Often, only the original software or highly specialized modding tools can properly read or export the data. However, convert.guru provides a realistic workaround. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view its internal hexadecimal or text strings, and convert it when possible if our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format.

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

Users also converted GMI, SRK and NUT files.


FAQ

If you want to convert FMG file to , you can use FromSoftware Engine or similar software from the "Game Localization Text Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to FMG, try FromSoftware Engine or another comparable tool in the "Game Localization Text Storage" category.



The FMG 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 FMG converter.