Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your USF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert USF to another file type
To convert your USF file to another format, you need MSI Afterburner or other Settings software.
Convert a file to USF
To convert other file formats to the "Application Skin File" file type, you need software like MSI Afterburner or a similar tool.
About USF files
The .USF extension is a "collision" format used by three completely different communities, creating significant confusion.
MSI Afterburner Skin (Most Common): About 26% of USF files are User Skin Files for MSI Afterburner. These define the visual interface of the GPU overclocking utility. They are proprietary archives (sometimes just renamed ZIP files) containing bitmaps and configuration scripts. Users often try to "open" these, but they must be placed in the \Skins directory of the installation folder to work. You cannot convert these to standard images easily without renaming the extension to ZIP first to extract the contents.
Nintendo 64 Audio (High Conversion Intent): In the emulation scene, USF stands for Ultra 64 Sound Format. These are "ripped" music files from Nintendo 64 games (similar to MINIUSF). They contain game code stripped down to just the audio instructions. They will not play in standard media players like Windows Media Player or iTunes. To listen on a phone or PC, you must convert them to MP3 or FLAC. This typically requires a specialized player like Winamp with a "64th Note" plugin or foobar2000 to decode the ROM data into audio streams.
Universal Subtitle Format: A legacy XML-based subtitle format intended to replace ASS/SSA. Despite its "Universal" name, it failed to gain traction. Modern TVs and web players do not support it. If you have this file, you need to convert it to SRT (SubRip) or VTT (WebVTT) for it to work with VLC media player or YouTube uploads.
Unreal Shader File: Developers using Unreal Engine use .usf files to store shader code (HLSL). These are plain text files editable in Notepad++.
Convert.Guru analyzes your USF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert USF file to RSF, MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC or APE, you can use MSI Afterburner or similar software from the "Interface Skin / Game Audio" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to USF, try MSI Afterburner or another comparable tool in the "Interface Skin / Game Audio" category.
The USF 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 USF converter.