Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your NS2 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert NS2 to another file type
To convert NS2 archives to another format, you need NScripter or other Game software.
Convert a file to NS2
To convert other file formats to the "Game Resource Archive" file type, you need software like NScripter or a similar tool.
About NS2 files
An .NS2 file is primarily a game resource archive used by the NScripter visual novel engine to package scripts, images, and audio. It is also heavily used as a continuous neural signal data file by Blackrock Microsystems and Neuralynx, an audio or game archive for Natural Selection 2, and a custom interface skin for Navitel Navigator. Users typically need to convert or unpack .NS2 files to access the internal media assets or extract raw scientific data. The primary disadvantage of this format is its closed, proprietary nature. It locks users out of their own data unless they have the original game engine or an expensive scientific software license. Standard archiving software cannot read the custom binary headers used in NScripter or Neuralynx files. For game archives, the best target formats are extraction targets like PNG, JPG, and OGG. For Navitel skins, the target format is ZIP, as the file is already a disguised ZIP archive. This file format is difficult to open or convert because standard online converters fail to parse the custom, undocumented containers. Often only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your NS2 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert NS2 file to DB, SQLITE, SQLITE3, MDB, ACCDB, DBF, ODB, FDB, GDB, MYD, FRM or SQL, you can use NScripter or similar software from the "Visual Novel Game Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert NDF, SQLITE3, BAK, RDB, SQL, DB4, MDF, MDB, LDF, DB, DB3 or SQLITE files to NS2, try NScripter or another comparable tool in the "Visual Novel Game Archive" category.
The NS2 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 NS2 converter.