XWI Converter

Extract text from Game mission files (XWI)


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

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

Convert XWI to another file type

To convert XWI Mission files to another format, you need Bee Movie Game or other Game software.

Convert a file to XWI

To convert other file formats to the "Proprietary Game Archive File" file type, you need software like Bee Movie Game or a similar tool.


About XWI files

The .xwi file extension is predominantly used as a proprietary game data archive for the Bee Movie Game. In this context, it stores compiled 3D models, textures, audio files, and game logic necessary for the engine to render the game world. A secondary, rarer use of the .xwi extension is for mission files in the classic 1993 space combat simulator Star Wars: X-Wing by LucasArts, where it dictates enemy flight paths, objectives, and trigger events. Because these files are highly specific to their respective game engines, they pose significant challenges for average users. They are closed, undocumented formats. You cannot open a .xwi file in a standard text editor, image viewer, or web browser. Modding communities occasionally build custom extraction tools to pull textures or audio from these archives, but general-purpose software will fail to read them. Converting them to standard formats like ZIP, PNG, or MP3 requires reversing the game's proprietary compression. Standard online converters cannot process these files. Often, only the original game engine or dedicated community-built modding utilities can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects an uncompressed underlying or embedded format, viewing or extraction may still be possible.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert XWI file to , you can use Bee Movie Game or similar software from the "Game Data and Mission Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to XWI, try Bee Movie Game or another comparable tool in the "Game Data and Mission Storage" category.



The XWI 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 XWI converter.