TTARCH Converter

Extract text from Telltale Games archives (TTARCH)


Drop or upload your .TTARCH file

How to extract text from your TTARCH file

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

Convert TTARCH to another file type

To convert TTARCH archives to another format, you need Telltale Tool or other Game software.

Convert a file to TTARCH

To convert other file formats to the "Proprietary Game Archive" file type, you need software like Telltale Tool or a similar tool.


About TTARCH files

The .ttarch file is a proprietary game asset archive created by Telltale Games. These files package essential game data, including 3D models, voice dialogue, UI textures, and narrative scripts used by the Telltale Tool engine.

Standard archivers cannot open them. They require specialized reverse-engineered software, such as Telltale Explorer or QuickBMS, to unpack the contents.

The main disadvantage of the .ttarch format is its closed, proprietary nature. The files frequently exceed gigabytes in size, and the internal data is compressed using custom headers. You cannot preview the game assets natively in web browsers or operating systems.

Users typically want to extract the contents to accessible, editable formats. Common target formats include OGG for audio dialogue, DDS for interface textures, and plain text files for subtitle scripts. Be aware that repacking modified files back into a .ttarch archive is highly unstable and often crashes the game.

Standard online converters fail to process this file format because it uses undocumented, game-specific compression. Only specific reverse-engineered extractors can properly read the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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

Users also converted TTARCH2 and ZIP files.


FAQ

If you want to convert TTARCH file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use Telltale Tool or similar software from the "Game Asset Archive Storage" 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 TTARCH, try Telltale Tool or another comparable tool in the "Game Asset Archive Storage" category.



The TTARCH 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 TTARCH converter.