Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your RVZ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert RVZ to another file type
To convert RVZ ROMs to another format, you need Dolphin Emulator or other Game software.
Convert a file to RVZ
To convert other file formats to the "Emulator ROM Image" file type, you need software like Dolphin Emulator or a similar tool.
About RVZ files
The .RVZ file is a highly compressed game disc image used by the Dolphin Emulator to store Nintendo GameCube and Wii games. This format provides lossless 1:1 copies of the original optical media while minimizing storage space. The main disadvantage of an .RVZ file is its extremely specialized, proprietary nature. Standard virtual drive tools cannot mount it, and archivers like 7-Zip cannot extract it. To use this game data outside of Dolphin, users must convert it back to a standard ISO file. This restores compatibility with hardware console mods and older emulators but drastically increases the file size on disk. Because the compression scheme is uniquely designed to compress Nintendo's specific disc padding and junk data, standard online converters fail to process it. Only the original software can natively reconstruct the original image. However, you can drag and drop your file into convert.guru to identify the format, view its metadata, and inspect its internal structure. If our analysis detects an underlying embedded filesystem, limited extraction or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your RVZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert RVZ file to ISO, WBFS, EXE, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP or SAV, you can use Dolphin Emulator or similar software from the "Compressed Game Disc Image" 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 RVZ, try Dolphin Emulator or another comparable tool in the "Compressed Game Disc Image" category.
The RVZ 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 RVZ converter.