IB2 Converter

Extract text from IncrediBots 2 saved challenges (IB2)


Drop or upload your .IB2 file
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How to extract text from your IB2 file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your IB2 file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert IB2 to another file type

To convert IB2 challenges to another format, you need IncrediBots 2 or other Game software.

Convert a file to IB2

To convert other file formats to the "Saved Challenge File" file type, you need software like IncrediBots 2 or a similar tool.


About IB2 files

.ib2 files are proprietary game data files created by IncrediBots 2, a classic Flash-based physics puzzle game. They store custom-built challenges, robot designs, joint properties, and rigid-body physics parameters generated by players. To interact with these files, you must use the original IncrediBots 2 engine or compatible offline legacy players. The .ib2 format is highly specific and inherently disadvantaged for general use; it is heavily restricted, proprietary, and completely useless outside of its native game environment. Because it contains proprietary physics logic rather than media, converting an .ib2 file to standard text formats like TXT or XML will only yield raw unreadable code, stripping away all playable mechanics. It is impossible to convert these files directly into standard video formats like MP4 or images like PNG. This closed format is notoriously difficult to process because standard tools lack the custom physics engine required to interpret the data. Consequently, standard online converters will universally fail to process it.

Convert.Guru analyzes your IB2 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert IB2 file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use IncrediBots 2 or similar software from the "Game Challenge Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to IB2, try IncrediBots 2 or another comparable tool in the "Game Challenge Data Storage" category.



The IB2 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 IB2 converter.