RAG Converter

Extract text from Ren'Py game archives (RAG)


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

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

Convert RAG to another file type

To convert RAG game archives to another format, you need Ren'Py or other Game software.

Convert a file to RAG

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


About RAG files

A .RAG file is typically a game data archive used by the Ren'Py visual novel engine or the RAGS game engine. It functions as a compiled container designed to store thousands of individual game assets, including background images, character sprites, audio tracks, and dialogue scripts. Game developers use this format to package their titles for distribution, particularly for Android ports.

The primary disadvantage of the .RAG format is that it is proprietary and closed-source. Standard archive utilities like WinRAR or 7-Zip cannot open these files. The format intentionally obfuscates data to prevent users from ripping assets or altering the game logic. Because of this proprietary structure, standard online converters fail to process .RAG files entirely. They lack the specific engine algorithms required to parse the binary data.

Users typically do not want to convert a .RAG file directly into another single format. Instead, they want to extract the internal contents into standard formats like PNG for images, OGG for audio, and TXT for text scripts. Often only the original software or specialized reverse-engineering extraction tools can properly read or export the data.

This file format is highly specialized and difficult to open or convert outside of its native game engine. We can inspect the file headers and show internal plain text content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or extracting the assets may still be possible.

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

Users also converted GEN, TXT, PDF, ZIP, JPG, DOCX, XAPK, RPA, RPYC and CY files.


FAQ

If you want to convert RAG file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use Ren'Py or similar software from the "Game Asset Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to RAG, try Ren'Py or another comparable tool in the "Game Asset Archive" category.



The RAG 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 RAG converter.