Extract text from Compressed archives (RZ)
To convert RZ Archives to another format, you need rzip or Game Engines or other Compressed software.
To convert other file formats to the "Compressed Archive Data" file type, you need software like rzip or Game Engines or a similar tool.
The .RZ file extension is primarily used for three different types of compressed data. Most commonly, it acts as a Compressed Game Asset created by Radical Entertainment for storing proprietary 3D models, audio, and textures in their video games. Secondly, it functions as a Compressed RubyGems Specification file, using zlib to store metadata for the RubyGems package manager. Finally, it can be an Rzip Compressed File, a highly efficient archive format developed by Andrew Tridgell that compresses large files by finding redundancies over massive data blocks.
Users encounter major challenges with .RZ files because they are highly specialized. The game asset variants are closed-source and cannot be opened outside of the original game engine or specific community modding tools. Rzip archives are strictly command-line based and require the rzip utility on Linux; they cannot be extracted by standard consumer software like Windows Explorer or macOS Archive Utility. This makes the format extremely frustrating for the average user to access.
Ideally, users want to decompress an .RZ archive and repackage the contents into standard formats like ZIP, TAR, or GZ for universal sharing. Converting game assets is rarely straightforward and often results in lost proprietary texture or mesh data.
Because this file format relies heavily on proprietary structures or specialized Linux utilities, standard online converters fail to process it. Our platform can inspect the internal file headers to identify whether it is a game asset, a zlib archive, or an rzip file, and extract the underlying data when standard algorithms are detected.
Convert.Guru analyzes your RZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted DL_, ZZ, ZL, RA and RMS files.
If you want to convert RZ file to RA, RMS, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB or ACE, you can use rzip or Game Engines or similar software from the "Compressed Archive & 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 RZ, try rzip or Game Engines or another comparable tool in the "Compressed Archive & Game Asset" category.
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 RZ converter.