Free online VGZ to WAV converter

Some audio editors and playback systems accept WAV but not VGZ, so game-music logs may need rendering before they can be edited or shared as ordinary audio. WAV also makes the sound playable without a VGM-compatible player.

What the VGZ format is

VGZ is a gzip-compressed VGM (Video Game Music) file. A VGM file records commands sent to videogame sound chips rather than storing a finished waveform; emulators and VGM logging tools create these files, and they are often encountered in collections of game music.

What the WAV format is

WAV commonly stores uncompressed PCM audio. Audio editors and many media players can read it directly, making it useful for editing, processing, and sharing; its uncompressed audio data generally takes more space than a compressed VGZ file.

How to convert VGZ to WAV

Online on 101convert.com

1. Upload the VGZ file on the converter page. Multiple files can be added for batch conversion; the page shows the per-file size limit.
2. Before converting, choose the sample rate and channel count.
3. Start the conversion, then download the WAV file or files.

The page’s converter uses FFmpeg on its server.

Offline with desktop software

VGMPlay is a Windows player for VGM and VGZ files that can render playback to WAV. Open a command prompt in the folder containing VGMPlay.exe and run VGMPlay.exe -o output.wav input.vgz, replacing the filenames as needed. The resulting WAV contains the rendered playback.

Quality and limitations

Conversion renders the sound-chip commands as audio; it does not recover an original studio recording. The playback emulator, sample rate, and channel setting affect the rendered output. WAV is typically larger because it stores uncompressed audio.