Hex Editor

Post by **Nach** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 2:43 pm

Do you know what a Hex Editor is? How long have you known?

DataPath · Post by **DataPath** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:32 pm

I remember hex editing moria saves back in the mid- to late- 1980s

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:01 pm

I had to vote since I got into Emulation. Its what drove me to leard QBASIC, so I didnt have to fire one up every time I wanted to cheat on Final Fantasy 2 or 3.

Jipcy · Post by **Jipcy** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:12 pm

I first encountered hex editors way back when I was doing script-kiddyish Windows hacking. Like "de-compiling" programs, changing the text of the Start button (OMG!), other silly things like that.

Oh, and using Litestep. Now there's a way to decrease Windows stability. But my god, some of the most beautiful backgrounds and visual themes were in those Litestep packages. Still have some of em (somewhat NSFW): http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jpc4x/p ... ounds.html.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:58 pm

Nach wrote:Do you know what a Hex Editor is?

yes

Nach wrote:How long have you known?

It's been ages...

I remember Norton Commander having a hex. viewer mode, and DLH distributed an utility called DLHex. These were probably the earliest I saw.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:48 pm

Yes, I know what a Hex editor is.

I've personally never used one until I was comparing ZSNES movies that Nach sent me on IRC, and they wouldn't play, so I had to hex edit a certain line.

Post by **Agozer** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:48 pm

Yes, I've known what a hex editor is for a long time. I rarely have the need to use one though.

Post by **pagefault** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:56 pm

XE.COM the best.

Bent · Post by **Bent** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:33 pm

I can't even think about when I first learned what a hex editor was. Way before emulation though.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:26 pm

it's a witch who works at the witch newspaper and filters out only the best news from other witch reporters.

does anybody know what an apple is? I think they're blue.

nemo · Post by **nemo** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:32 pm

Been using Hex editors for a while. I honestly cannot remember why I needed the to begin with. I think I used Hackman? Something like that? It was coded in VB (haha), but was actually pretty good. They developed it more (still in VB) and it got worse and worse, last I remember it was near unusable. Don't have much use for them anymore. No time to mess around with hex editing.

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:57 pm

I didn't use computers much until I got my old Pentium 1 all those years ago, it was at that time when I heard about hex. Despite a few times that I needed to use a hex editor I didn't because not only did not know which editor to use since I've never used one, but someone had already edited what I needed to after a little while so there was no need in the end. To this day I still haven't used one.

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:32 am

I do know about hex editors (swapping constantly between XVI32 and Hex Workshop), but not because of emulation, but Starcraft modding. I am not quite sure if I was aware of emulation back then, but it is likely I already did.

Lord Alpha · Post by **Lord Alpha** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:57 pm

I don't use 'em that much, but I've been aware of their exsistence since the DOS 6.22/Win31 days

nemo · Post by **nemo** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:52 pm

Hate to hijack (Alright, I'm kinda ok with it) but what hex editors do you guys use nowadays? Had to use one the other day to "convert" from file formats. (Some N64 game save format container. Has some kind of header, then a massive string of zeros, then the eeprom contents, then another massive string of zeros, and then maybe a tail, I can't remember. I just had to cut out all but eeprom). I used something called Hack off sf.net. If you are looking for a good hex editor, then that's not for you, heh. Shiat.

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:08 am

Hmm, let me remember.

Got the 286 when I was 7. Got the Bard's Tale trilogy roughly one year after that.
You can guess when I found a use for hexediting - it's the same day I found what 'overflow' was, and how dumb programmers are to use signed ints for money/exp (without checking for overflows).

Hmm, 16 years ago, brings back memories. I should replay these games one of these days.

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:12 pm

nemo wrote:Hate to hijack (Alright, I'm kinda ok with it) but what hex editors do you guys use nowadays? Had to use one the other day to "convert" from file formats. (Some N64 game save format container. Has some kind of header, then a massive string of zeros, then the eeprom contents, then another massive string of zeros, and then maybe a tail, I can't remember. I just had to cut out all but eeprom). I used something called Hack off sf.net. If you are looking for a good hex editor, then that's not for you, heh. Shiat.

HexWorkshop helps you define some c-style structures for easier reading of some elements. You might want to go check on that.

Neo Kaiser · Post by **Neo Kaiser** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:39 pm

I tried to use one together with a tile and a sprite editor to change the colors of Lucca in Secret of mana but i ws unsussesful. I never tried to hack a game ever again.

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