DirectDraw Surface

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DirectDraw Surface (or its file format, DDS) is a texture format made by Microsoft for their DirectX renderer. It can use S3 texture compression (S3TC) algorithms (such as DXT1, DXT5, etc.) and also be used as cubemaps.

Ripping Tools

• Noesis - A program that can open and export the files.
• GIMP - Another program that can open and export the files.

List of games using the format

Name	Platforms	Compression	Notes
Cars	Xbox 360	?
Cars: Mater-National Championship	PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360	?
Chess Titans	PC	DLL, CAB
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I	PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360	AMB
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II	PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360	AMB
Sonic Unleashed	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360	?

• PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 games use .DDS files for their banners and icons.