Convert VGA files online for free
The converter easily converts your VGA file to various formats - free and online. No Notepad or extra software needed.
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Game formats to VGA with high quality output.
The .vga file extension is a relic of the MS-DOS and Windows 3.x era, serving as a catch-all container for various proprietary formats rather than a single standardized image type. Most prominently, it appears as a game data archive in 90s classics like The 7th Guest by Trilobyte, X-COM: UFO Defense, and titles using the LucasArts SCUMM engine. In these contexts, the file acts as a library storing sprites, textures, and UI elements. Alternatively, in the operating system realm, a .vga file functions as a low-level display driver or screen font for IBM PC compatibles.
The main friction point for users is that .vga files are not standard raster images like JPG or PNG. You cannot simply double-click them to view the content because they contain raw binary data, often relying on custom compression schemes and 8-bit color palettes (256 colors) specific to the hardware of 1993. Modern image editors like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP cannot natively decode the proprietary headers inside these archives.
To make this data usable, conversion depends on the file's origin. For game assets, the best approach is extracting the internal bitmaps to PNG or BMP for preservation or modding. This often requires specific extraction utilities designed for the game engine (e.g., tools compatible with ScummVM). If the file is a system driver, it serves no purpose on modern OS architectures (Windows 10/11) and is best left archived unless you are configuring a vintage virtualization environment like DOSBox.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your VGA file.
Users also converted SVG, JPG, PNG, PDF, IMG, ADF, EWF, USB, DVI, COMPONENT and CGA files.
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 VGA converter.