GG Converter

Convert Google Gadgets and ROMs (GG) online for free


Drop or upload your .GG file

How to convert your GG file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your GG file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert GG to another file type

The converter easily converts your GG gadgets and ROMs to various formats - free and online. No Google Desktop or or other Compressed software needed.

  • GG to DPX
  • GG to BLK
  • GG to JPG
  • GG to BW
  • GG to MBM
  • GG to PCC
  • GG to YUV
  • GG to SYS
  • GG to DDS
  • GG to RAD
  • GG to IRIS
  • GG to NGG

Convert a file to GG

To convert other file formats to the "Gadget or Game Archive" file type, you need software like Google Desktop or a similar tool.


About GG files

A .gg file is most commonly a Google Desktop Gadget, a KiriKiri game modification package, or a Sega Game Gear ROM image. These files represent very different use cases: widgets for an obsolete desktop platform, modified game assets using the KAG engine, or dumped game cartridges for retro emulation. The primary disadvantage of the .GG format is obsolescence and lack of native support. Google Desktop was discontinued in 2011, making gadget files unusable as standalone applications. In reality, these are simply renamed ZIP or 7Z archives containing raw HTML, XML, Javascript, and image assets. Game gear ROMs are proprietary binary files that cannot run without specialized emulators. To access the source code or media assets inside a Gadget or Game Mod, your best conversion target is a standard archive format like ZIP or 7Z. This allows easy extraction using software like 7-Zip. For archiving retro games, converting between ROM formats is rarely viable, but managing them in compressed archives saves space. Drop your file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your GG file.

Users also converted OGG, TXT, PDF, ZIP, MP4, SDOCX, GDI, WUD, LNX, KT, PCS, G and MG files.


FAQ

If you want to convert GG file to KT, PCS, G, MG, MT, TG, TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK or OLD, you can use Google Desktop or similar software from the "Gadget Archive or Game ROM" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to GG, try Google Desktop or another comparable tool in the "Gadget Archive or Game ROM" category.



The GG 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 GG converter.