YCM Converter

Extract text from Yugioh Card Maker files (YCM)


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

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

Convert YCM to another file type

To convert YCM card files to another format, you need Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Maker or other Game software.

Convert a file to YCM

To convert other file formats to the "Custom Card Save File" file type, you need software like Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Maker or a similar tool.


About YCM files

.YCM files are project files used by various Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Maker tools. They store all the metadata required to render a custom trading card, including the card name, level, attribute, type, description text, ATK/DEF stats, and a reference or encoded string for the card artwork. Typically, these are used in desktop versions of the card maker or specific offline generators built for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game community. The major drawback of the .YCM format is that it is strictly a proprietary project file, not an image. You cannot share this file on social media, open it in standard image viewers, or read it without the specific card maker application installed. Standard web browsers and image editors like Adobe Photoshop cannot parse the layout. Users generally need to export or convert .YCM files into raster images like PNG or JPG to share their custom cards online. Alternatively, converting to PDF is highly useful for printing a custom deck. Because standard online converters lack the rendering engine and proprietary graphic assets (like the card frames, spell icons, and level stars) required to visually construct the card, direct visual conversion is often impossible without the original software. Our tools can inspect the raw data inside the .YCM file, often revealing embedded text, card effects, or underlying structures, allowing you to salvage the text data even if the visual render fails.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert YCM file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Maker or similar software from the "Custom Card Data Storage" 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 YCM, try Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Maker or another comparable tool in the "Custom Card Data Storage" category.



The YCM 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 YCM converter.