Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PGZ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PGZ to another file type
To convert PGZ archives to another format, you need GNU Gzip or other Compressed software.
Convert a file to PGZ
To convert other file formats to the "Archive or Game Data" file type, you need software like GNU Gzip or a similar tool.
About PGZ files
A .PGZ file primarily functions as a Gzip compressed data file, a packed electrical project archive for EPLAN Electric P8, or a proprietary PlayStation Scene Graph asset used by Sony Computer Entertainment. These files are used to package multiple resources, reduce file sizes for web transmission, or store compiled 3D game environments. You can open standard compressed versions using archiving software like 7-Zip or WinRAR, while the electrical archives require the native EPLAN application. The PlayStation variants require proprietary Sony developer tools. Users frequently need to convert or extract .PGZ files because the format is highly context-dependent and often unsupported by standard operating systems natively. Proprietary versions, like the EPLAN archives or PlayStation assets, are closed ecosystems. They lock your data behind expensive software licenses or obsolete game engines. Standard users cannot easily view the internal contents, and the files are useless in a standard web browser. The best conversion strategy is extracting the .PGZ file into universally recognized archive formats like ZIP, TAR, or 7Z. This allows you to access the underlying text, XML, or binary data. Extracting the file prevents data loss, though proprietary game assets will remain unreadable without the original game engine. Because the .PGZ extension is shared among radically different software ecosystems, standard online converters usually fail to process it. They expect a standard archive but crash when encountering a PlayStation asset. Often only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, you can use convert.guru to bypass this confusion. Drag and drop your file to see what it is and convert it if supported. Our system will inspect the file signatures, show readable text or internal content, and extract the underlying data if a recognized archive structure is detected.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PGZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PGZ file to ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE, ARJ or LHA, you can use GNU Gzip or similar software from the "Compressed Archive or Game Asset" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to PGZ, try GNU Gzip or another comparable tool in the "Compressed Archive or Game Asset" category.
The PGZ 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 PGZ converter.