What hex editor do you use and what for, precisely?

>>106144289 (OP)
>What hex editor do you use
hexdump
>and what for, precisely?
I dump in hex.

GHex, debugging, curiosity

>>106144289 (OP)
Hacking is for tinkertrannies and most low level programmers from the past would have used electron if they could. Real men just want to build because the real world is the only real world

>>106144289 (OP)
hexedit for quick checking or byte change, rizin/cutter for more thorough analysis (which isn't very often).

>>106144638
what

>>106144638
Only one problem: the world you call real is illusory.

Dumps from windows task manager, using hxd instead of cheat engine because it let's me examine after closing a program. Cheat engine can only step forward through single aob, tedious if you have to go backward more than once, with hxd I can see how many times that aob appears in the entire memory used.

mc's builtin editor or ghex because it works

>>106144638
Least hylic /g/oy

imhex is the best

>>106144289 (OP)
It sucks that vim doesn't have a hex editor mode.

I wonder if you could edit one bit or whatever of 7z file, only you would know the offset address and it would render whole file corrupted and couldn't be opened even with the correct password.
Might test this theory.

>>106145778
I would love a TUI that looks like xxd with a pager but also lets you edit.

>>106145807
In most cases it would only at most fuck over one file in the archive. And that's not anything like real security. Assuming the password is known it would be easy to write some analysis code and figure out where the error occurred.

>>106145839
Even if archive is encrypted?

>>106144638
There's nothing worth building anymore though.

>>106144289 (OP)
Occasionally used cheat engine in the past to cheat in games. There were some weird ass russian xaxa hex editors in the FAR past whoch let you cheat in mmos as well (they avoided primitive detection engines) and I used those as well. once in my life I modded my HoMM3 copy with a hex editor to change some values on units, because modding that game is insane.
so nothing useful desu

>>106145955
I think so but I'd have to check now that you say it.

>>106144289 (OP)
My editor had it built in for the last 20 years or so.
hexl-mode

>>106144289 (OP)
xxd

>>106144289 (OP)
hexplorer. it's old but i like it.

>>106144638
Man, what a retarded statement. Holy fuck, fuck off you clown

>>106144289 (OP)
bvi

>>106144289 (OP)
ImHex

Almost exclusively for analyzing save files for writing save game editors

What hex editor should I use to find out how game mechanics works in vidya games?
>t. retarded wiki editor with no coding experience

>>106146270
It's the 2025 ultimate edition brainlet cope. So hot right now.

>>106144289 (OP)
Translhextion - An ancient ROM hacking hex editor that still works great.
Hex Workshop - More modern and has way more features but is a bit bloated, which is good for its purpose but makes it more cumbersome to use for quick edits.

>>106146317
Depends on your goals.

For reverse engineering non-standard/proprietary file formats, you can mostly just get away with a hex editor depending on the complexity of the game, which ImHex is good for.

If you're actually looking at reverse engineering an executable/application as a whole, then you're going to need other tools like IDA, Ghidra, etc. But you will absolutely need a lot of coding experience and a solid low-level understanding of quite a few things before you can even think about being a "beginner" on this.

>>106144638
>low level programmers
>would have used electron if they could
what an incredibly stupid fucking moron. my god you're fucking retarded. hilarious.

>>106144638
you're the most retarded post I've read today.
and I've been on /b/

>>106144289 (OP)
GNU Emacs

>>106144289 (OP)
https://hexed.it/
for figuring out where my parser is reading incorrect values

>>106144289 (OP)
That one on the picture would be my first choice since I myself use XP as my daily driver. I use it for everything, but one thing it can do that not all hex editors can is get very low level r/wr access to any drive so I can format anything by just simply writting in a bunch of 00's. This is also useful for writting floppy disk images to thumbdrives and stuff.

>>106146317
You're not going to learn that from a hex editor. Assuming you're talking about reverse engineering, look up some reverse engineering tutorials and use whatever hex editor they're using so you can follow along. Depending on the game you want to modify, it might be easier to just learn assembly for that system and go from there. If you just want to edit some text then do plain text searches, but be aware that a lot of older games used compression and there are other factors to consider. For example, a game might use different bytes for characters than Ascii or UTF do. In short, you're going to have to learn a LOT of different things to make any significant modifications.

If you actually just want to learn how things work on a code level, look up some basic game mechanic tutorials in LOVE2D or PyGame and try to follow along.

>>106144289 (OP)
HxD for some quick small changes in headers

>>106144638
>>106146566
He's done you. That's enough /g/eet posting for today.