Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your RCO file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert RCO to another file type
To convert RCO Resource files to another format, you need RCO Editor or other System software.
Convert a file to RCO
To convert other file formats to the "Console UI Resource" file type, you need software like RCO Editor or a similar tool.
About RCO files
A .RCO file is primarily a proprietary resource container used by Sony consoles, including the PlayStation Portable (PSP), PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3. It holds assets for the XrossMediaBar (XMB) interface, such as icons, sounds, animations, and XML layout data. A smaller percentage of .RCO files are CAD raster images used by Cimatron or AutoCAD. The PlayStation .RCO format is closed and proprietary. Files are often encrypted or heavily compressed. This makes them extremely difficult to open on a standard PC without specialized homebrew software. Standard online converters usually fail to process .RCO files because they do not understand the PlayStation container structure. You need to extract the internal assets to standard formats like PNG for images, WAV for audio, or XML for layout text. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, like the TIFF structure in CAD files, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your RCO file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert RCO file to SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386, COM, BAT, CMD, SCR, PIF or LNK, you can use RCO Editor or similar software from the "Console UI Resource Container" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MSI, EXE, REG, MST, LNK, CAB, CAT, DRV, INF, SYS, MSU or DLL files to RCO, try RCO Editor or another comparable tool in the "Console UI Resource Container" category.
The RCO 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 RCO converter.