Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ARL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ARL to another file type
To convert ARL files to another format, you need Sega Hedgehog Engine or other Game software.
Convert a file to ARL
To convert other file formats to the "Game Asset Archive" file type, you need software like Sega Hedgehog Engine or a similar tool.
About ARL files
The .arl extension is primarily used for Sega Hedgehog Engine Game Asset Archives, storing 3D models, textures, and animations for Sonic games like Sonic Forces and Sonic Adventure. Modders use community-built extraction tools to access these assets. Alternatively, .ARL files are InPage Urdu Word Processor Documents created by InPage. These files use the Microsoft Compound format to store Urdu, Arabic, and Persian text. Legacy uses include AOL Organizer Favorite Places for storing old America Online bookmarks, and modern uses include ZIP-compressed Sisma Dental Milling Machine projects and JSON-based Article Reader saved lists. These files are highly proprietary and specialized. Sega game archives cannot be opened natively by Windows or macOS, requiring specialized scripts to extract assets into standard OBJ, PNG, or FBX formats. InPage documents require a paid license to read or export to standard PDF or TXT formats; otherwise, the custom font encoding makes the text unreadable in standard word processors. AOL and Sisma files are equally closed. Standard online converters fail to process .ARL files because they lack the specific decoders for proprietary game engines or niche word processors. This file format is difficult to open or convert because only the original software or dedicated community extractors can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format - such as the JSON or ZIP structure found in some .ARL variations - viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ARL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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FAQ
If you want to convert ARL file to JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO, CUR, PSD or PSB, you can use Sega Hedgehog Engine or similar software from the "Game Asset Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to ARL, try Sega Hedgehog Engine or another comparable tool in the "Game Asset Archive" category.
The ARL 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 ARL converter.