Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SB2 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SB2 to another file type
To convert SB2 projects to another format, you need Scratch or other Developer software.
Convert a file to SB2
To convert other file formats to the "Visual Programming Project" file type, you need software like Scratch or a similar tool.
About SB2 files
The .SB2 file extension is most commonly associated with Scratch 2.0, an educational visual programming language developed by the MIT Media Lab. It stores entire Scratch projects, including scripts, sprites, images, and audio tracks. Another less common use for the .SB2 extension is as a database file for Serial Box, an application that distributes software serial numbers. A major disadvantage of .SB2 Scratch files is their reliance on the legacy Scratch 2.0 offline editor, making them difficult to open on modern devices without backward compatibility. They are proprietary project files, meaning standard text editors or generic image viewers cannot read them natively. Because it relies on specific internal JSON structures and asset mapping, standard online converters fail to process it. To share a Scratch project, users often need to convert it to a standalone executable, HTML5, or video format like MP4. Interestingly, .SB2 files are standard ZIP archives in disguise. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SB2 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SB2 file to SB3, SWF, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB or GO, you can use Scratch or similar software from the "Visual Programming Project Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to SB2, try Scratch or another comparable tool in the "Visual Programming Project Storage" category.
The SB2 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 SB2 converter.