Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WAD file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert WAD to another file type
The converter easily converts your WAD archives to various formats - free and online. No Doom Engine or or other Game software needed.
WAD to PNG
WAD to OTB
WAD to RPPM
WAD to GREY
WAD to 89I
WAD to PI1
WAD to WBM
WAD to GRB
WAD to 73I
WAD to GBR
WAD to DIS
WAD to 82I
Convert a file to WAD
To convert other file formats to the "Game Data Archive File" file type, you need software like Doom Engine or a similar tool.
About WAD files
A .WAD file typically serves as a game data archive, most famously associated with Doom and other games running on the id Tech 1 engine. The acronym stands for Where's All the Data. It bundles textures, sprites, level layouts, and audio into a single uncompressed package. Other software, like the Nintendo Wii, uses the .WAD format for installable software channels and system updates. Game developers for League of Legends and GameMaker Studio also use .WAD extensions to store packaged game assets. While useful for old engines, the classic .WAD format is heavily outdated. It lacks modern compression, meaning files can become unnecessarily bloated. Furthermore, proprietary .WAD files from newer games (like Riot Games archives) are often encrypted or use proprietary compression chunks, making them impossible to open with standard archiving tools. You cannot view the internal assets without specialized community-built extraction tools like SLADE or Wii WAD Unpackers. To modify these assets or use them in modern engines, you must convert the archive. For classic Doom modding, convert to PK3 or ZIP for better compression and directory structure support. For extracting Wii channels, convert the contents to ISO or DOL for emulator compatibility. If you want to pull sprites or sounds from a game, extract and convert the internal chunks to PNG or WAV. Just drag and drop your file here to convert it.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your WAD file.
If you want to convert WAD file to WBFS, ISO, PK3, ZIP, VMT, RVZ, MP3, ROM, EXE, BIN or CUE, you can use Doom Engine or similar software from the "Game Asset Data Archive" 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 WAD, try Doom Engine or another comparable tool in the "Game Asset Data Archive" category.
The WAD 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 WAD converter.