Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your IFS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert IFS to another file type
To convert IFS Archives to another format, you need InfoSlips Viewer or other Compressed software.
Convert a file to IFS
To convert other file formats to the "Secure Archive Document" file type, you need software like InfoSlips Viewer or a similar tool.
About IFS files
The .IFS file extension represents several distinct proprietary formats, most commonly an InfoSlips Secure Document, an Infinity Ward File System game archive for Call of Duty, or a Konami Sound Voltex game data file. InfoSlips uses the .IFS format to securely deliver financial statements, invoices, and payslips. These files are highly compressed (often using zlib) and encrypted, meaning you must use the proprietary InfoSlips Viewer to open them. Game developers use .IFS to pack 3D models, textures, and audio into a single archive container. The main disadvantage of the .IFS format is its rigid, proprietary nature. You cannot open an InfoSlips file in standard web browsers or document readers, and it requires a dedicated app just to view a payslip. Likewise, you cannot extract game assets from an .IFS file without specialized, reverse-engineered modding tools. Users generally need to convert InfoSlips .IFS to PDF to store them in a standard, accessible format, or extract game .IFS files to ZIP or PNG to access the assets. Because these are closed, encrypted formats, standard online converters fail to process them. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, just drag and drop your file to identify the exact format, view its internal structure, and convert it if our analysis detects a supported embedded format.
Convert.Guru analyzes your IFS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert IFS file to PDF, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use InfoSlips Viewer or similar software from the "Secure Document & Game Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to IFS, try InfoSlips Viewer or another comparable tool in the "Secure Document & Game Archive" category.
The IFS 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 IFS converter.