NOA Converter

Extract text from NOA files


Drop or upload your .NOA file

How to extract text from your NOA file

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

Convert NOA to another file type

To convert your NOA file to another format, you need Entis GLS or other Game software.

Convert a file to NOA

To convert other file formats to the "Game Data Archive" file type, you need software like Entis GLS or a similar tool.


About NOA files

The .NOA file extension represents a diverse set of proprietary formats, most frequently serving as an ERISA game data archive developed by Entis. These archives function as compressed containers storing essential assets - such as background images, character sprites, and scripts - for Japanese visual novels and gaming applications. Because these files are encrypted and structurally complex, standard utilities like 7-Zip cannot open them, forcing users to rely on specific extraction tools to access the content.

In other contexts, a .NOA file may be a DVR security recording generated by NETSurveillance or Nancy systems. These video files often utilize non-standard codecs (like H.264 variants) wrapped in a proprietary shell, making them unplayable in standard media players like VLC Media Player. Users typically need to convert these to MP4 or AVI for evidence sharing or general viewing. Less commonly, this extension marks legacy audio recordings from HIMIS or Nokia devices, which require conversion to MP3 or WAV to be playable on modern smartphones and web browsers.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert NOA file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use Entis GLS or similar software from the "Game Asset Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to NOA, try Entis GLS or another comparable tool in the "Game Asset Archive" category.



The NOA 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 NOA converter.