Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SAR file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert SAR to another file type
The converter easily converts your SAR archives to various formats - free and online. No SAPCAR or or other Compressed software needed.
SAR to XBM
SAR to PS1
SAR to FTS
SAR to BM
SAR to NGG
SAR to IRIS
SAR to RAD
SAR to DDS
SAR to SYS
SAR to MBM
SAR to PCC
SAR to YUV
Convert a file to SAR
To convert other file formats to the "System Archive File" file type, you need software like SAPCAR or a similar tool.
About SAR files
A .SAR file is predominantly a proprietary compressed archive used by SAP software. It is managed by the command-line utility SAPCAR to distribute software updates, patches, and system packages. Beyond enterprise software, the .SAR extension is heavily fragmented. It also functions as a Java Service Archive (which acts as a deployable component on JBoss/WildFly servers), a game data archive for engines used by Capcom, miHoYo (Genshin Impact), or Nintendo, and even as legacy audio formats like Yamaha/Ketron MIDI styles. The main disadvantage of SAP .SAR files is their deeply proprietary nature. You cannot open them with standard archive tools like WinRAR or 7-Zip. You must use the clunky SAPCAR command-line tool, which usually requires enterprise SAP credentials to even download. Game .SAR files suffer from similar encryption and proprietary packing, making modding or extraction highly difficult without reverse-engineered extractors. To make the contents actually accessible, you must extract or convert the archive. For SAP files, converting the payload to ZIP or TAR makes the data readable by normal desktop tools. For Java Service Archives, extracting the internal class files is necessary for development. For game archives, extracting packaged audio to MP3 or WAV is the primary goal. Drag and drop your file to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your SAR file.
If you want to convert SAR file to PKR, PHP, EGP, MYR, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ or LZMA, you can use SAPCAR or similar software from the "System Archiving and Compression" 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 SAR, try SAPCAR or another comparable tool in the "System Archiving and Compression" category.
The SAR 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 SAR converter.