Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XP3 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert XP3 to another file type
To convert XP3 game archives to another format, you need KiriKiri or other Game software.
Convert a file to XP3
To convert other file formats to the "Visual Novel Archive" file type, you need software like KiriKiri or a similar tool.
About XP3 files
The .XP3 file is a proprietary game data archive used exclusively by the KiriKiri visual novel engine. It functions as a specialized container holding raw game assets such as background images, character sprites, audio tracks, and dialogue scripts. The primary disadvantage of this format is its closed, undocumented nature. It is heavily proprietary, often encrypted, and standard archiving software like 7-Zip or WinRAR cannot read it. Users typically need to convert or extract these archives to access the underlying PNG, OGG, and TXT files for translation, modding, or asset recovery purposes. This is notoriously difficult because individual game developers frequently modify the KiriKiri engine's source code to implement custom encryption keys, breaking standard extraction tools. Because this is a closed, proprietary format, standard online converters almost always fail to process it. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or extraction may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your XP3 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert XP3 file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use KiriKiri or similar software from the "Game Asset Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to XP3, try KiriKiri or another comparable tool in the "Game Asset Archive" category.
The XP3 Converter Story
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 XP3 converter.