Extract text from XP files
To convert your XP file to another format, you need RexPaint or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "ASCII Art Archive" file type, you need software like RexPaint or a similar tool.
The .XP file extension is a chameleon, serving distinct roles across gaming, audio, and engineering software, often creating confusion for users trying to open them.
Most commonly in modern creative circles, an .XP file is a compressed ASCII art image created by RexPaint. These files are actually GZIP-compressed archives containing layer data, character codes, and foreground/background color information. While RexPaint is the gold standard for roguelike developers and ASCII artists, the format is proprietary and cannot be opened by standard image viewers, web browsers, or editors like Adobe Photoshop. To share your work on social media or embed it in a game engine, you must convert these files to standard raster formats like PNG or BMP.
Alternatively, if you are working with vintage digital audio, the file may be an Extended Pattern from the legendary Fasttracker 2. These modular audio fragments are obsolete and incompatible with modern media players like VLC. Audiophiles and archivists typically convert these to MP3 or WAV to preserve the sound.
In professional engineering contexts, an .XP file might belong to XP-SWMM (now part of Autodesk via Innovyze), used for stormwater management modeling. These are strictly data files; converting them to CSV or PDF reports requires specialized extraction tools.
Convert.Guru analyzes your XP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted XPL, TLM, TSD and VM files.
If you want to convert XP file to VM, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV or PROPERTIES, you can use RexPaint or similar software from the "ASCII Art Image" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to XP, try RexPaint or another comparable tool in the "ASCII Art Image" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our XP converter.