Y3D Converter

Extract text from Yu-Gi-Oh! decks (Y3D)


Drop or upload your .Y3D file
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How to extract text from your Y3D file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your Y3D file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert Y3D to another file type

To convert Y3D decks to another format, you need Yu-Gi-Oh! ONLINE 3 or other Game software.

Convert a file to Y3D

To convert other file formats to the "Saved Game Data" file type, you need software like Yu-Gi-Oh! ONLINE 3 or a similar tool.


About Y3D files

The .Y3D file format stores custom player deck configurations for the discontinued PC game Yu-Gi-Oh! ONLINE 3, also known as Duel Accelerator. Developed by Konami, this game allowed players to collect digital cards and duel opponents globally. Because the official game servers permanently shut down in 2012, the .Y3D format is now obsolete and practically useless for live gameplay. The file uses a highly proprietary, closed binary data structure to store specific card IDs rather than standard readable text. This presents a major disadvantage: you cannot simply open it with standard text editors, and despite the misleading '3D' extension, it is completely unsupported by 3D modeling software. Standard online converters will fail to process it because it relies on an internal database index rather than common document or image standards. Players looking to recover their old deck lists usually need to convert these files to YDK format for use in modern community simulators like YGOPro, or extract the data to TXT or CSV files to read the card names. This file format is difficult to open or convert because only the original, now-defunct software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your Y3D file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert Y3D file to OBJ, FBX, DAE, 3DS, MAX, BLEND, MA, MB, C4D, STL, PLY or WRL, you can use Yu-Gi-Oh! ONLINE 3 or similar software from the "Game Deck Configuration Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DWG, DAE, X3D, IGES, WRL, JT, SKP, 3DS, 3DM, OBJ, STEP or FBX files to Y3D, try Yu-Gi-Oh! ONLINE 3 or another comparable tool in the "Game Deck Configuration Storage" category.



The Y3D 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 Y3D converter.