Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TAD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TAD to another file type
To convert TAD data files to another format, you need Wolf RPG Editor or other Game software.
Convert a file to TAD
To convert other file formats to the "Asset Archive File" file type, you need software like Wolf RPG Editor or a similar tool.
About TAD files
The .TAD file extension is most commonly an encrypted or compressed game asset archive used by Wolf RPG Editor. It stores essential game data such as sprites, maps, and audio. A secondary, yet critical, use case is as a Thermal Analysis Data file generated by scientific equipment like the Shimadzu TA-60 Workstation or analyzed using software from TA Instruments. Additionally, it functions as a database application file for Telemark Application Designer. Opening a .TAD file is notoriously difficult without the exact parent software. Wolf RPG Editor files are heavily obfuscated to prevent asset theft, making standard archive tools like 7-Zip useless. Similarly, scientific .TAD files are locked in proprietary binary structures that require expensive vendor software just to view a simple temperature graph. These files are not supported by web browsers, text editors, or standard operating system utilities. Converting your .TAD file depends entirely on its source. If it is a thermal analysis file, converting to CSV or XLSX is essential for analyzing the raw data in Microsoft Excel or Python. For archiving laboratory results, convert to .PDF/A. If you are trying to extract game assets, extracting the archive to raw PNG (for images) or OGG (for audio) is the primary goal. Our tool will analyze the file signature and extract the contents without requiring niche, expensive software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TAD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TAD file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Wolf RPG Editor or similar software from the "Game Asset Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to TAD, try Wolf RPG Editor or another comparable tool in the "Game Asset Archive" category.
The TAD 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 TAD converter.