# morkt/GARbro

Visual Novels resource browser

Repository: https://github.com/morkt/GARbro
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/garbro
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: images, audio, extraction, reverse-engineering, gui, visual-novel
Last push: 2024-07-08T19:36:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4426, "days_push": 786, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3263, forks 323 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:52.752942+00:00)

## What it is
GARbro is a Windows GUI application for browsing, extracting, and converting resources (archives, images, audio) from visual novel games. It recognizes many proprietary game formats and converts extracted assets to common formats.

## Use cases
- extract images and audio from visual novel game archives
- browse proprietary game archive formats
- convert game image files to PNG
- convert game audio files to common formats
- open encrypted visual novel archives
- rip assets from visual novels for translation

## When to choose
- you need to extract or convert assets from visual novel games on Windows
- you want a GUI tool that recognizes many proprietary VN formats
- you need to inspect game archives without command-line tools

## When to avoid
- you need a cross-platform or command-line extraction tool
- your target game format is not in GARbro's supported list
- you need to extract resources from non-visual-novel games

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: reverse-engineering, image-processing, audio-processing, gui, file-system
- domain: gaming-tools, reverse-engineering, files, media
- platform: windows, dotnet
- tags: visual-novel, archive-extraction, resource-browser, game-assets, format-conversion, desktop

## Member repositories
- morkt/GARbro (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:52.752942+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:23:11.941475+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/morkt/GARbro (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:52.752942+00:00, sha caa7e973136c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.