SAVE Converter

Extract text from SAVE files


Drop or upload your .SAVE file
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How to extract text from your SAVE file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SAVE file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert SAVE to another file type

To convert your SAVE file to another format, you need Ren'Py or other Game software.

  • SAVE to SAV
  • SAVE to JSON
  • SAVE to SRM
  • SAVE to PDF
  • SAVE to CSV
  • SAVE to XML
  • SAVE to YAML
  • SAVE to YML
  • SAVE to TOML
  • SAVE to INI
  • SAVE to CFG
  • SAVE to CONF

Convert a file to SAVE

To convert other file formats to the "Game Data Archive" file type, you need software like Ren'Py or a similar tool.

  • DBF to SAVE
  • XML to SAVE
  • SQLITE to SAVE
  • XLSX to SAVE
  • SQL to SAVE
  • TSV to SAVE
  • ACCDB to SAVE
  • YAML to SAVE
  • MDB to SAVE
  • CSV to SAVE
  • ODS to SAVE
  • JSON to SAVE

About SAVE files

The .save extension is a generic container used by various software to store state, but it is most dominantly associated with visual novels built on the Ren'Py engine. In this context, the file is often a ZIP archive containing serialized Python objects (Pickle data) that record player progress, choices, and variables. Other notable uses include Twine interactive fiction (SugarCube engine), Ubisoft titles like Assassin's Creed, and temporary buffers for the Nano text editor.

Because .save files are typically proprietary binary or serialized data, they are not meant to be opened directly by humans. Users frequently face challenges with compatibility (saves from one game version breaking on another), obfuscation (developers hiding data to prevent cheating), and cross-platform friction (moving saves from PC to Android). Opening them in a standard text editor often results in garbled, unreadable code. To analyze, debug, or modify game states (save editing), users often need to convert these files into human-readable formats like JSON or TXT. For Ren'Py specifically, treating the file as a ZIP allows users to extract embedded screenshot thumbnails or metadata.

Convert.Guru analyzes your SAVE file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted SAV, YAML, TXT, JSON, PERSISTENT, SRM, PS4, XLSX, SUBVERSESAVEGAME001, ZIP, MAIN, CSV and LT files.



The SAVE 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 SAVE converter.