Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MLN file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert MLN to another file type
To convert MLN files to another format, you need MelonDS or other Game software.
Convert a file to MLN
To convert other file formats to the "Emulator Savestate / Config" file type, you need software like MelonDS or a similar tool.
About MLN files
An .MLN file usually acts as a MelonDS emulator savestate, freezing the exact memory state of a Nintendo DS game. Alternatively, it can function as an AutoCAD Multiline Style file or a guitar effects preset for software like Line 6 POD Farm or Guitar Pro. Because the .MLN extension is shared by entirely unrelated applications, identifying its origin is the first challenge. As an emulator savestate, the file contains a raw dump of console memory. It is proprietary to MelonDS and almost impossible to open in other emulators. As an AutoCAD settings file, it is plain text or structured data that dictates how multiple parallel lines render in a DWG drawing. Users usually want to convert .MLN files to share game progress, migrate AutoCAD styles, or exchange audio presets. Standard online converters fail because these are niche, specialized formats. A savestate cannot magically become a video, and an AutoCAD style cannot simply become a PDF without the host application. This file format is difficult to open or convert without the parent software. Emphasize that often only the original software can properly read or export the data. Just drag and drop your file to convert.guru to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format - such as plain text in an AutoCAD style - viewing or conversion to TXT or XML may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your MLN file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert MLN file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use MelonDS or similar software from the "Emulator Savestate or App Settings" 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 MLN, try MelonDS or another comparable tool in the "Emulator Savestate or App Settings" category.
The MLN 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 MLN converter.