3 file types use the .svs file extension.

What is an SVS file?

Contains saved data from an emulated Game Boy Advance (GBA) video game; allows the game to be saved and resumed from the saved state; may be generated by gpSP (game play SP), a GBA emulation program.

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Aperio ScanScope Slide Image

An SVS file may also be a digital slide image file created by an Aperio ScanScope slide scanner. It contains a series of TIFF images, and its ImageDescription tag starts with Aperio. SVS files are used for archiving and analyzing Aperio microscope images.

Scientific microscopes scan and save slide specimen images in a variety of image formats. Aperio ScanScope microscopes save images in the SVS file format, which contains a number of different specimen images saved at different resolutions .

The first image saved in an SVS file is always the baseline specimen image, saved at full resolution. The full resolution image is always tiled, with a typical tile size of 240 x 240 pixels. The second image is always a thumbnail, which is usually 1024 x 768 pixels. Additional "pyramid" images (saved at a variety of resolutions) may follow the full resolution and thumbnail images.

SVS files sometimes also contain a slide label image, identifying the slide a file was created from. This image ensures that scientists and medical workers can link the images an SVS file contains with the physical slide they were created from.

In Windows, you can open an SVS file in Aperio Technologies ImageScope, a free slide image viewing software. In macOS and Linux operating systems, you can open SVS files with OpenSlide, an open-source slide image viewing library.

Programs that open SVS files

Updated: December 8, 2020

Need for Speed: World Vinyl Setup

An SVS file may also be a vinyl setup that can be applied to a car in Need for Speed: World, a free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) racing game. It contains information used to apply a specific set and arrangement of vinyls to a car. SVS files are applied to cars using the mod-created VinylManager application.

In 2010, Electronic Arts released Need for Speed: World, the 15th installment in the Need for Speed video game franchise. In the game, players could race high-performance cars against AI opponents and other players from around the world. Players could also unlock additional cars and customization options while leveling up their in-game character.

Some of the game's customization options took the form of vinyls. Vinyls were decals players used to decorate their cars. For example, a player could apply a number of vinyls to make their car look like a souped-up taxi cab or a police car. Players adept at modding Need for Speed: World created the VinylManger application to allow them to save their cars' vinyl setups as SVS files and easily apply those setups to other cars, as well as share them with other players.

Electronic Arts discontinued Need for Speed: World and shut down the game's servers in 2015. However, the game's dedicated player base has created their own version of the game, called Need for Speed: World Offline, which still allows players to use VinylManger and SVS files to apply vinyl setups to their cars.

You can use VinylManager to apply the vinyl setup contained within an SVS file to a car in Need for Speed: World. To do so, you must download VinylManager and then:

Programs that open or reference SVS files

Updated: September 9, 2020