XVS Converter

Extract text from Virtual storage files (XVS)


Drop or upload your .XVS file
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How to extract text from your XVS file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XVS file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert XVS to another file type

To convert XVS Storage files to another format, you need Xbox Console or other Game software.

Convert a file to XVS

To convert other file formats to the "Game Save File" file type, you need software like Xbox Console or a similar tool.


About XVS files

The .XVS file extension primarily acts as an Xbox Virtual Storage file. These are proprietary game save containers generated by Microsoft Xbox Live and the Xbox Game Pass ecosystem. They store player progress, profile data, and game-specific configurations. A secondary, less common use is as a visual or weather preset file for the XVision add-on in the X-Plane flight simulator, utilizing standard zlib compression. Opening or editing .XVS files directly is notoriously difficult. Xbox save files are heavily encrypted and cryptographically signed to prevent cheating, tampering, or transferring saves between unauthorized profiles. They are locked to the console ecosystem and are completely unsupported by standard desktop text editors or web browsers. Users often look to convert .XVS files to standard formats like JSON, XML, or TXT to modify their in-game stats or port saves to PC versions of games. Unfortunately, standard online converters fail to process these files because the encryption schema is closed and proprietary. Modifying the raw hex data without recalculating the security hash will instantly corrupt the save file. Because this is a closed, proprietary format, traditional file conversion is often impossible without specialized, community-built modding tools designed for specific games. However, you can still use convert.guru. Just drag and drop your .XVS file to see what it is. Our analyzer will inspect the file structure, attempt to identify the specific game or embedded zlib streams, and extract any readable plain text metadata if supported.

Convert.Guru analyzes your XVS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert XVS file to , you can use Xbox Console or similar software from the "Game Save Container" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to XVS, try Xbox Console or another comparable tool in the "Game Save Container" category.



The XVS 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 XVS converter.