Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your INPUT file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert INPUT to another file type
To convert INPUT Data files to another format, you need MAME or other Settings software.
Convert a file to INPUT
To convert other file formats to the "Configuration Data File" file type, you need software like MAME or a similar tool.
About INPUT files
.INPUT files primarily function as configuration or raw data files. Notably, the MAME arcade emulator uses this extension to store default game controller inputs. Beyond MAME, many scientific computing applications, command-line tools, and data processing scripts use .INPUT files to feed parameters into a system. These files are typically plain text or simple binary. The main disadvantage of an .INPUT file is its absolute lack of standardization. It is tied entirely to the specific software that generated it. Without the parent application, the data structure can be confusing, unstructured, or unreadable. Users often need to convert .INPUT files to standard text formats like TXT, CSV, or XML to safely edit parameters or analyze the underlying data. Standard online converters usually fail because they do not understand the specific proprietary syntax or binary structure of the original source program. Just drag and drop your file to convert.guru to see what it is and convert it if supported. Even if the file is an obscure application-specific format, convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show text or internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your INPUT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert INPUT file to INT, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use MAME or similar software from the "Application Data Input" 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 INPUT, try MAME or another comparable tool in the "Application Data Input" category.
The INPUT 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 INPUT converter.