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Hex editors are a seriously undervalued learning tool. As a kid, I loved opening up the game files of stuff I was playing and see what I could tweak. I’m not s
by harles 4y ago
Hex editors are a seriously undervalued learning tool. As a kid, I loved opening up the game files of stuff I was playing and see what I could tweak.
I’m not sure this particular editor could replace HxD for me - I’m not seeing process memory editing in its list of features. I’m glad to see the space is still getting love though.
- truncate 4y agoSo true! That was my introduction to binary format and serialization as a kid, probably didn't even knew what these words were back then. Or, when something crashed I think there used to be button -- "Debug" an it would open up Visual/Windows Debugger with assembly filling up the screen.
- misnome 4y agoAs a kid, my eyes were opened to this stuff by wotsit.org - when I realised I could start decoding the internals of my games!
- sedatk 4y agoAs a long time HxD user, I had no idea that it had process memory editing capabilities.
- ColonelPhantom 4y agoI just installed ImHex, and I saw an option to attach to a GDB server. I assume that implies memory editing capabilities, but I haven't tried it yet. I also don't know how the situation would be on non-GNU platforms, although I think GDB is a thing on Windows with MinGW?
- adonese 4y ago>although I think GDB is a thing on Windows with MinGW and wsl
- Pakdef 4y agoAs a kids I used to edit mIRC's ctcp version reply with an hex editor.... Probably 25 years ago
- jcul 4y agoIt also has an xor view through feature which was very useful to me in the past. I've experienced files that use it as a simple protection.
- vfinn 4y agoYeah. I learned in primary school that I could bypass a password prompt in a simple program just by changing one conditional jump instruction to another (if password is wrong, success)