IRC Converter

Extract text from Game assets and logs (IRC)


Drop or upload your .IRC file
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How to extract text from your IRC file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your IRC file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert IRC to another file type

To convert IRC Assets and logs to another format, you need SteamWorld Dig or other Game software.

Convert a file to IRC

To convert other file formats to the "Game Asset Archive" file type, you need software like SteamWorld Dig or a similar tool.


About IRC files

The .IRC file extension represents a collision of three distinct data formats, often causing confusion for users trying to open them.

  1. SteamWorld Dig Resource (43%): Most commonly, this is a proprietary game asset container used by Image & Form for titles like SteamWorld Dig. These files function like locked folders, holding PNG character sprites, animation data, and audio. The Problem: They are not standard archives. You cannot open them with WinRAR or 7-Zip without specialized unpacking scripts.
  2. Volkswagen Infotainment Log (10%): Generated by the MIB2 platform found in VW, Audi, and Skoda vehicles. These files contain system diagnostic data. The Problem: They are often binary-encoded or raw text dumps that appear as gibberish in standard viewers.
  3. mIRC Script: Historically, this format stores automation scripts for the mIRC chat client, containing plain text commands.

Conversion Advice: For game files, standard conversion is impossible; you must use specific GitHub extraction tools to retrieve the internal images. For VW logs and scripts, the most practical 'conversion' is renaming the file to TXT or opening it in Notepad++ to inspect the raw text content.

Convert.Guru analyzes your IRC file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted LRC, DOCX, TXT, PDF, MP3, JPG, DOC, ODT, PNG, XML, MP4, KDT and BCH files.


FAQ

If you want to convert IRC file to TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD, MARKDOWN, LOG or NFO, you can use SteamWorld Dig or similar software from the "Game Character Resource Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to IRC, try SteamWorld Dig or another comparable tool in the "Game Character Resource Data" category.



The IRC 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 IRC converter.