Extract text from Game maps and BIOS files (SGB)
To convert SGB Game files to another format, you need BGB or Relic Tools or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "Game Map or ROM" file type, you need software like BGB or Relic Tools or a similar tool.
The .SGB file extension is primarily associated with three entirely different types of data. First, it serves as a proprietary Relic Chunky map file created by Relic Entertainment for strategy games like Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. Second, it represents a Super Game Boy ROM, which is a digital dump of a Nintendo Game Boy cartridge that includes Super Game Boy hardware enhancements. Finally, .SGB is heavily used as a disguised audio file format by companies like Capcom (for the Ace Attorney series) or CRI Middleware, where the file actually contains standard Ogg Vorbis or RIFF/WAV audio data.
The main disadvantage of the .SGB format is extreme fragmentation and zero cross-compatibility. Depending on its origin, opening it requires completely different software ecosystems. Map files are closed, proprietary binary containers useless outside their specific game engine. ROM files demand specialized emulators like BGB to run and cannot be played directly on modern operating systems. Game audio .SGB files intentionally use a custom extension to prevent players from easily extracting the soundtrack.
Users commonly want to convert game audio .SGB files to standard formats like MP3, WAV, or OGG to listen to the music outside of the game. For map files or ROMs, direct media conversion is impossible because they contain code and 3D coordinate data, not video or audio; however, users often compress them into ZIP or 7Z archives to save disk space. Standard online converters fail to process .SGB files because they lack the specific decoders required for proprietary game assets and get confused by the shared extension.
Just drag and drop your file onto convert.guru to identify the actual format, view its internal structure, and convert it if supported. If our analysis detects an underlying standard audio format like Ogg or RIFF disguised behind the .SGB extension, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SGB file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted SGBPACK, SVG, SGP, JPG, SAV, WLD, FST, FCW and FLR files.
If you want to convert SGB file to FLR, EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP or SAV, you can use BGB or Relic Tools or similar software from the "Game Maps, ROMs, Audio" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to SGB, try BGB or Relic Tools or another comparable tool in the "Game Maps, ROMs, Audio" category.
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 SGB converter.