ZFS Converter

Extract text from Game archives (ZFS)


Drop or upload your .ZFS file
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How to extract text from your ZFS file

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

Convert ZFS to another file type

To convert ZFS Archives to another format, you need OpenZFS or other Game software.

Convert a file to ZFS

To convert other file formats to the "Resource Archive & Backup Stream" file type, you need software like OpenZFS or a similar tool.


About ZFS files

.ZFS files typically serve two highly distinct purposes: they are either proprietary game resource archives or serialized backup streams from the Zettabyte File System. Game developers like Zombie Studios and Activision used the format to pack 3D models, textures, and audio into a single encrypted or compressed container. In the enterprise IT world, .ZFS files represent a raw data stream generated by the 'zfs send' command in OpenZFS, utilized for replicating entire storage datasets across networks. Both variations present massive usability disadvantages for average users. Game archives are proprietary, lack official extraction tools, and cannot be opened by standard operating systems. Backup streams are heavily OS-dependent, often exceed hundreds of gigabytes, and require a compatible UNIX-like environment to restore. Because these are closed or system-level binary formats, standard online converters universally fail to process them. You cannot simply 'convert' a file system stream to a standard document format. However, you can just drag and drop your .ZFS file into convert.guru to analyze its headers and determine whether it is a game archive or a disk backup. If our analysis detects standard embedded assets like PNG or WAV within a game archive, viewing or extraction to ZIP may still be possible.

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

Users also converted NTFS and LVM files.


FAQ

If you want to convert ZFS file to NTFS, LVM, SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386, COM, BAT, CMD or SCR, you can use OpenZFS or similar software from the "Game Archive & System Backup" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MSI, EXE, REG, MST, LNK, CAB, CAT, DRV, INF, SYS, MSU or DLL files to ZFS, try OpenZFS or another comparable tool in the "Game Archive & System Backup" category.



The ZFS 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 ZFS converter.