Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TBD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TBD to another file type
To convert TBD Stub files to another format, you need Apple Xcode or other Game software.
Convert a file to TBD
To convert other file formats to the "Game Data Container" file type, you need software like Apple Xcode or a similar tool.
About TBD files
The .TBD file format generally serves as a proprietary RIFF game data container for the Petroglyph Alamo Engine or a Text-Based Definition stub in Apple Xcode. Toon Boom Harmony also utilizes it for animation drawing templates. Users face significant friction with .TBD files because they are highly fragmented across unrelated ecosystems. Alamo Engine containers are locked and cannot be browsed natively by operating systems, making modding incredibly frustrating without specialized extraction utilities. Xcode stubs, while easily readable as YAML text, are completely useless outside of Apple's specific SDK compilation pipelines and cannot function as standalone executable binaries. Toon Boom templates are locked behind an expensive software subscription. If you need to access Alamo game assets, you must extract the contents to standard formats like PNG or WAV for viewing. For Xcode libraries, they must be compiled back into DYLIB binaries to run. Drop your file here to view and convert it securely right in your browser.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TBD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TBD file to DYLIB, TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD or LOCK, you can use Apple Xcode or similar software from the "Game Data Container" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to TBD, try Apple Xcode or another comparable tool in the "Game Data Container" category.
The TBD 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 TBD converter.