How to Extract RAR & ZIP files on Android (2023)

For those who are new to playing PPSSPP/PSP games on Android and want to learn to extract compressed ISO in RAR formats, then here is the post you’ve been searching for. Also, for those who just want to extract a random compressed file online directly on their smartphones, you can check this out as well.

There are various methods which I’ve explained in a simple step-by-step guide below that can help to decompress the following archive types: 7z (7zip), zip, rar, rar5, bzip2, gzip, XZ, iso, tar, arj, cab, lzh, lha, lzma, xar, tgz, tbz, Z, deb, rpm, zipx, mtz, chm, dmg, cpio, cramfs, img (fat, ntfs, ubf), wim, ecm, lzip, zst (zstd), egg, alz etc.

Without further ado, let’s dive right into this article on Naijaknowhow.

Prerequisite:

We’ll be making use of three popular android apps for this tutorial, they include;

Take note that these apps work independently depending on your preference. You don’t have to install all of them to get started, simply choose and stick with the one that works best for you.

One of the major reasons people choose to extract compressed files is for the purpose of playing PSP files in .ISO or .CSO formats.

What are ISO Files?

ISO file (often called an ISO image) is a file in the form of a disk. This file type will allow you to get or copy the entire contents of the disk or drive to ISO. They are often used for backing up optical discs, or for distributing large file sets that are intended to burn to an optical disc.

Like other important files, ISO can include all data files on your computer such as CD, SD Card, Flashdisk or other disk formats.

In addition, you have a RAR or ZIP file that you want to convert to ISO.

Usually, the PPSSPP game files that have been downloaded are still in the form of RAR and also cannot be played on the PPSSPP emulator. Because files that can be read by the PPSSPP emulator are files in the form of CSO or ISO.

But because the ISO or CSO file has a much larger size compared to the RAR file. So in order not to require a large amount of quota to download it, a trick is to convert the download file to RAR. The main aim here is to avoid consuming too much quota.

If you’re an ardent lover of PSP games, how then do you convert RAR or ZIP files to a playable file type on the PPSSPP emulator?

Worry not because, in this post on Naijaknowhow, we will provide a way to convert or extract RAR files to ISO or other file formats. Check out the following explanation.

How to Extract RAR Files with ZArchiver

How to extract PSP game files that are still in RAR form using ZArchiver is as follows:

1. Download and install the ZArchiver application first.
   [appbox googleplay ru.zdevs.zarchiver&hl=en&gl=US]
2. Then Open and run the application.
3. Next, look for the game file that is still in RAR form which will be extracted.
4. If you have found it, click extract directly on the ZArchiver application.
5. Then wait until the extract process is complete.
6. After the extraction process is complete, open the extract results, you will see many files.
   
7. Open the RAR file from the extracted results, then extract the file that is written behind the RAR, such as the b-krchfj.rar file in the image above.
8. Wait until the Extract process is complete.
9. Finally, extract the game file to your PSP folder (the extracted file extension must be .iso)

In the example of the tutorial above, the RAR file which was originally larger in size, i.e 965MB, after being successfully extracted to ISO the size will change to 1.60 GB in size.