Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XZP file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert XZP to another file type
To convert XZP skins to another format, you need Xbox 360 Dashboard or other Game software.
Convert a file to XZP
To convert other file formats to the "Console Skin Archive" file type, you need software like Xbox 360 Dashboard or a similar tool.
About XZP files
The .XZP file functions primarily as an Xbox 360 Dashboard Skin or compressed data container. It is widely used by the homebrew community, particularly for customizing the Aurora Dashboard on modified Microsoft Xbox 360 consoles. These files package custom graphics, interface layouts, and configuration scripts into a single consolidated archive. Working with .XZP files on a standard PC is frustrating. It is a closed, proprietary format designed specifically for legacy console hardware. Files can easily exceed 50MB and you cannot open them natively in Windows or macOS. Standard archive tools like WinRAR or 7-Zip will usually fail to extract the contents because the compression headers and file tables are highly specific to the Xbox ecosystem. Users typically need to convert or extract these files to access and modify the internal assets. The best target formats are standard ZIP for the overall extracted directory, or PNG and XML for the individual visual elements and layout codes. Because this is a highly specific and proprietary console format, standard online converters fail to process it. Often, only original console modding software or dedicated XZP tools can properly read or export the data perfectly. Our system inspects the binary data, and if our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, extracting or viewing the contents may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your XZP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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FAQ
If you want to convert XZP file to , you can use Xbox 360 Dashboard or similar software from the "Xbox 360 Game Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to XZP, try Xbox 360 Dashboard or another comparable tool in the "Xbox 360 Game Archive" category.
The XZP 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 XZP converter.