RVZStudio Documentation
RVZStudio is a cross-platform desktop application for batch converting GameCube and Wii disc images to the RVZ format, verifying the integrity of existing RVZ files, and extracting RVZ images back to ISO, WBFS, GCZ, WIA, CISO or TGC. It runs on Windows, Linux and macOS on both x64 and ARM64 architectures and is built with Avalonia UI on .NET 10.
Documentation map
| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| Getting Started | Requirements, installation and a five-minute quick start. |
| User Guide | Complete walkthrough of every screen and control. |
| Settings Reference | Compression methods, levels, block sizes and all options. |
| Troubleshooting | Solutions for common problems and how to collect diagnostics. |
| FAQ | Short answers to frequently asked questions. |
| What's New | Release highlights and changes for the current version. |
| Architecture | Internal design, services, data flow and platform integration. |
| Building | Building, testing, publishing and the CI/CD pipelines. |
| Contributing | How to report issues and submit changes. |
What RVZStudio does
- Batch conversion — convert many ISO, GCM, WBFS, GCZ, WIA, CISO/WBI, TGC, NFS, NKIT.ISO, ZIP, 7Z and RAR inputs to RVZ in a single run, with an optional Scrub setting for Wii discs.
- Native RVZ engine — the built-in RVZSharp library encodes, decodes and verifies disc images natively, with automatic fallback to DolphinTool when needed.
- Integrity verification — check existing RVZ files with the native volume verifier
(partition hash trees, TMD/H3 tables) and CRC-32/MD5/SHA-1 hashes, with DolphinTool fallback,
and optionally move results into
_Success/_Failedfolders. - Extraction — decode RVZ files back to ISO, WBFS, GCZ, WIA, CISO or TGC.
- Disc explorer — browse the file system of any supported disc image, copy files/folders out and compute per-file SHA-256 hashes without extracting the whole image.
- Live progress — overall progress bar, per-file progress, statistics and a streaming log viewer.
External links
- Releases & source code: https://github.com/purelogiccode/RVZStudio
- Website: https://www.purelogiccode.com
- Dolphin Emulator (DolphinTool): https://dolphin-emu.org/
- SharpCompress: https://github.com/adamhathcock/sharpcompress
License
RVZStudio is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. See LICENSE.txt.