Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your UH file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert UH to another file type
To convert UH Data files to another format, you need Age of Empires II or other Game software.
Convert a file to UH
To convert other file formats to the "Real-Time Strategy Game Data" file type, you need software like Age of Empires II or a similar tool.
About UH files
A .uh file is a proprietary game data file exclusively used by Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. These files store crucial game configuration data, internal asset references, and game engine logic utilized by the classic real-time strategy game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft. The primary software used to read and execute these files is the game itself. Users often attempt to convert these files because they want to extract background music, character sprites, or modify gameplay rules. However, the significant disadvantage of the .uh format is its completely closed nature. It requires the original game engine to interpret the binary data, meaning you cannot simply open it with a web browser or a standard text editor. Standard online converters will fail to process this file into common formats like a PDF document or JPG image. If you need to share the file, compressing it into a ZIP archive is the best approach. If you want to view the data, extracting readable code to a TXT file is your only option without dedicated modding tools. This file format is notoriously difficult to open or convert because only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your UH file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert UH file to MH, NH or H, you can use Age of Empires II or similar software from the "Game Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to UH, try Age of Empires II or another comparable tool in the "Game Data Storage" category.
The UH 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 UH converter.