GARbro AlternativesResource Editors and other similar apps like GARbro

GARbro is described as 'A resource browser, archiver, and extractor specializing in game data archives. It handles uncommon file formats not supported by standard zip and rar utilities. A full list of supported formats can be found at https://morkt.github.io/GARbro/supported.html' and is a Resource Editor in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to GARbro for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Android Tablet apps. The best GARbro alternative is Resource Hacker, which is free. Other great apps like GARbro are UndertaleModTool, Universal Extractor 2, PE-bear and Free Resource Extractor.

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  1. Resource Hacker icon
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    Resource Hacker™ is a resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows® applications.

    21 Resource Hacker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Resource Hacker is the most popular Windows alternative to GARbro.

    • Resource Hacker is the most popular free alternative to GARbro.

    • Resource Hacker is Free and ProprietaryGARbro is Free and Open Source
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    The most complete tool for modding, decompiling and unpacking Undertale (and other GameMaker games!)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Ubuntu
    • Linux
     
    • UndertaleModTool is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to GARbro.

    • UndertaleModTool is the most popular Open Source alternative to GARbro.

    • UndertaleModTool is Free and Open SourceGARbro is also Free and Open Source
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    Universal Extractor 2 is an unofficial updated and extended version of the original UniExtract by Jared Breland. It brings several hundred changes including community-wanted ones such as a batch mode, auto-updater and scan-only-functionality.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. PE-bear icon
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    Portable Executable reversing tool with a friendly GUI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Free Resource Extractor is a free and handy utility to scan all DLL, EXE and OCX files and extract built-in resources like icons, bitmaps, cursors, sounds, AVI videos, HTML files, metafiles, etc. Free Resource Extractor can even extract useful resources from system files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning
    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. PE Explorer icon
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    PE Explorer is the most feature-packed program for inspecting the inner workings of your own software, and more importantly, third party Windows applications and libraries for which you do not have source code.

    49 PE Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • PE Explorer is the most popular commercial alternative to GARbro.

    • PE Explorer is Paid and ProprietaryGARbro is Free and Open Source
  7. AssetStudio icon
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    AssetStudio is a tool for exploring, extracting and exporting assets and assetbundles (from Unity games).

    4 AssetStudio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  8. Restorator icon
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    Restorator is an award-winning utility to edit windows resources in applications and their components, e.g. files with .exe, .dll, .res, .rc, .dcr, extension (see PE files and RES files).

    12 Restorator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Innounp icon
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    innounp, the Inno Setup Unpacker.

    It recovers portions of the installation script (.iss file), including the registry changes and the compiled Innerfuse/RemObjects Pascal Script, if available.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. ExEinfo PE icon
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    Packer, compressor detector / unpack info / internal exe tools.

    Internal Tools and Ripper Menu :

    Borland Delphi ( 2.0 - 7.0 ) Microsoft Visual C++ ver. 5,6,7,8.0 UPX exe/ dll 0.89.6 - 1.02 / 1.05 -3.03 -> Markus & Laszlo Aspack v2.12 -> Alexey Solodovnikov EXECrypto.

    17 ExEinfo PE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. innoextract icon
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    Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows to extract such installers under non-windows systems without running the actual installer using Wine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  12. ResEdit icon
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    ResEdit is a free resource editor for Windows programs. You can use it if you want to use dialogs, icons, version information or other types of resources. Output files can be compiled by any Windows compiler that includes a resource compiler, like MinGW and Microsoft Visual C++.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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