.XEX and .XEXP?

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.XEX and .XEXP?

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So I was browsing my harddrive last night and I came across the system update file and decided to take a look through it. Simple enough stuff, just a LIVE file, so I looked at the file list and the names are all weird. Almost all of them start with a $ symbol and they're mostly .xexp extensions. I know that he original xbox used .xbe and the xbox 360 uses .xex files, but what is xexp? I tried extracting one, $flash_bootanim.xexp and saving it but I couldn't get anything out of it. Course if it's just an flv or swf file, I didn't have anything to compare it against, but what are they? Is it possible to extract anything useable from them?

There are also a few .xex, .xttp (something like http, maybe?), and .bin files as well.
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Re: .XEX and .XEXP?

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If they are going to use any kind of recognizable animation format it would probably be silverlight as opposed to flash, considering it was developed by microsoft...
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Re: .XEX and .XEXP?

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But the ame says flash_bootanim, unless it jus means it's writing that new bootanim to the flash memory...
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Re: .XEX and .XEXP?

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.xexp files are patches for the .xex files. Of course your are not going to open it in a hex editor and read it because xex files contain instructions for the 360.
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Re: .XEX and .XEXP?

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Well, I just wanted to try. Thanks for the info.
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