Extract text from script and mod files (GHOST)
To convert GHOST mod files to another format, you need Ghostlang or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Ghostlang Source Code" file type, you need software like Ghostlang or a similar tool.
A .ghost file serves multiple distinct purposes depending on the context. Primarily, it is a plain text source code file written in Ghostlang, a lightweight, C-like scripting language designed to be embedded in other applications. In the PC gaming community, a .ghost file is a deactivated Bethesda game plugin (often named .esp.ghost). Finally, it is also maliciously used as an appended extension for files encrypted by the GhostLocker ransomware.
Ghostlang scripts can be edited in modern development environments like Visual Studio Code. For gamers, ghosted mod files are typically managed by Wrye Bash to manipulate load orders and hide inactive plugins from the game engine.
Users frequently struggle with .ghost files because operating systems and web browsers do not natively recognize the extension. If you try to open a Ghost script, Windows will prompt you to find an app, and browsers will force a download instead of displaying the code. Gamers deal with the annoyance of the game engine entirely ignoring their mod files until the extension is removed. If your personal documents have suddenly acquired the .ghost extension, they are locked by ransomware and standard software is useless without a decryption key.
To make a Ghostlang script universally accessible, you should convert it to TXT, MD (Markdown), or PDF. If you are dealing with a ghosted game mod, standard conversion does not apply; you just need to rename the file back to its native ESP or ESM format.
Because the .ghost format represents three completely different things, standard online converters often fail to process it correctly. Most tools cannot distinguish between a plain text script, a renamed binary game archive, and scrambled malware data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your GHOST file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted GHO, XGHOST, ISO, JPG, PLG, RWT and ARX files.
If you want to convert GHOST file to ISO, IMG, DMG, VHD, VMDK, VDI, HDD, QCOW, QCOW2, RAW, VBOX or OVA, you can use Ghostlang or similar software from the "Source Code & Mod Management" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert VFD, DMG, OVA, IMA, VBOX, ADF, PVS, VHD, OVF, ISO, DSK or IMG files to GHOST, try Ghostlang or another comparable tool in the "Source Code & Mod Management" category.
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 GHOST converter.