Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PS3 file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert PS3 to another file type
The converter easily converts your PS3 data files to various formats - free and online. No RPCS3 Emulator or other Game software needed.
PS3 to PS2
PS3 to JFIF
PS3 to KRO
PS3 to RGBA
PS3 to IFF
PS3 to BMP
PS3 to ALS
PS3 to PSB
PS3 to PDB
PS3 to TIF
PS3 to JP2
PS3 to PFM
Convert a file to PS3
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other "Console Asset Archive" formats to PS3 without using software like RPCS3 Emulator or a similar tool.
SPU to PS3
VIFF to PS3
BIF to PS3
BPR to PS3
SUN to PS3
MTV to PS3
QRT to PS3
WAD to PS3
M8 to PS3
PXR to PS3
MOS to PS3
MSK to PS3
About PS3 files
The .ps3 extension is highly fragmented, serving primarily as a proprietary game data container for Sony PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 consoles, or occasionally as a game song data package in titles like Guitar Hero III. In the engineering sector, it acts as a UTF-8 text-based CAD part and assembly definition file for CADENAS PARTsolutions. In game development, it can also be a particle animation file for the Vicious Engine. The main disadvantage of .ps3 files is their proprietary, locked-down nature. Console data files are opaque archives containing raw assets, making them entirely unreadable on standard PCs without complex reverse-engineering extraction tools. CAD versions lock part logic into specialized enterprise environments, creating a hard vendor lock-in. To make this data usable, conversion or extraction is strictly required. For game assets, extracting the archive to open formats like WAV for audio or PNG for textures is the only way to edit or archive the media. For CAD files, converting to STEP or IGES ensures broad interoperability across 3D software. Just drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your PS3 file.
If you want to convert PS3 file to ISO, PC, PS4, PKG, DEX, SSD, PSP, CSV, JSON, XML or YAML, you can use RPCS3 Emulator or similar software from the "Proprietary Game Data Container" 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 PS3, try RPCS3 Emulator or another comparable tool in the "Proprietary Game Data Container" category.
The PS3 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 PS3 converter.