Extract text from Multi-language and game scripts (MLS)
To convert MLS scripts to another format, you need Max Payne 2 or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Localization & Script Files" file type, you need software like Max Payne 2 or a similar tool.
The .MLS file extension usually represents a Multi-Language Support file compiled by Teknum Systems, or a proprietary game level script used in legacy video games like Manhunt and Max Payne 2. In software development, .MLS files store localized string data for applications. In gaming, they hold compiled scripting logic that dictates level events and AI behavior.
These formats share major disadvantages: they are closed, proprietary, and heavily outdated. You cannot open an .MLS script natively in a standard text editor because the code is compiled into binary. Opening the file in Notepad usually displays garbled characters. Modifying them requires specialized community modding tools or the original game engine. Furthermore, multi-language .MLS files are often locked to a specific software architecture.
Users frequently try to convert .MLS files to standard localization formats like JSON, XML, or CSV to manage translation strings, or to TXT to read and edit game script logic. Standard online converters fail at this task because they lack the specific decoders for these obscure engines.
Just drag and drop your file into convert.guru to identify the format, view its internal structure, and convert it when possible. While fully decompiling an .MLS game script requires dedicated tools, our analyzer can inspect the hexadecimal data and extract any plain text strings hidden inside the binary. If our system detects a supported embedded format, viewing or data extraction is still possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your MLS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted MLG, MSL, EML, R, ALN, XVG and MG files.
If you want to convert MLS file to MG, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use Max Payne 2 or similar software from the "Multilingual Strings & Game Scripts" 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 MLS, try Max Payne 2 or another comparable tool in the "Multilingual Strings & Game Scripts" category.
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 MLS converter.