Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WS2 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert WS2 to another file type
To convert WS2 documents to another format, you need MicroPro WordStar 2000 or other Text software.
Convert a file to WS2
To convert other file formats to the "WordStar 2000 Document" file type, you need software like MicroPro WordStar 2000 or a similar tool.
About WS2 files
A .ws2 file primarily acts as a legacy word processing document for WordStar 2000 or a visual novel game script for engines like WillPlus, KiriKiri, and Live2D. It is also occasionally used as a game resource archive by developers like Nihon Falcom. For legacy text editing, it was created by MicroPro WordStar 2000, while modern gaming variants are associated with the Live2D Cubism Editor. The main disadvantage of the .ws2 format is extreme fragmentation and obsolescence. Legacy WordStar files are unsupported by modern operating systems and use proprietary formatting that breaks when forced into modern processors like Microsoft Word. Meanwhile, gaming script variants are closed-ecosystem assets, often compiled or obfuscated, meaning they cannot be casually edited. Because a single .ws2 extension is shared among multiple vastly different and proprietary programs, standard online converters usually fail to process it. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. Converting a WordStar document to DOCX, PDF, or TXT is highly recommended to rescue the plain text, though complex 1980s page layouts will likely be lost. Game scripts rarely convert to anything useful outside their specific engines. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible on convert.guru. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your WS2 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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FAQ
If you want to convert WS2 file to TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD, MARKDOWN, LOG or NFO, you can use MicroPro WordStar 2000 or similar software from the "Legacy Document & Game Script" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to WS2, try MicroPro WordStar 2000 or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Document & Game Script" category.
The WS2 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 WS2 converter.