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| MathOnNapkins Posts: 41/1106 |
Originally posted by T.Geiger What I meant was, if you hit an arrow key left or right, it will step you through each individual 4 bit digit of hex, instead of going to the next byte. It's not really a flaw of your editor, it's just my personal preference to be able to jump to the next byte with one keystroke. Thus, XVI32 treats each byte as a cell in a table, whereas your editor treats the data more like text. Cygnus is similar in that regard, and I only used that for a while b/c of its file compare features. Another advantage of the way XVI32 has it configured is that you won't accidentally alter a byte unless you enter both digits. So if you hit a stray 'F' key you can just use the arrow keys to get away from that byte and no harm is done. It's only when you enter the second digit that the input registers as permanent. |
| Heran_Bago Posts: 19/33 |
Hex Workshop kthx. |
| Gideon Zhi Posts: 5/125 |
Hex Workshop's great if you don't need any romhacking-specific functions. I did Cave Story in Hex Workshop. It doesn't have any wildcard search functions either, and that can be really aggravating sometimes.
For anything else though, WindHex32 all the way. |
| Omega45889 Posts: 13/92 |
Hex workshop is by far the best ive used. |
| Dragonsbrethren Posts: 28/442 |
Originally posted by Gideon ZhiOriginally posted by Datahax I love how you can't search for $00  |
| Imajin Posts: 7/273 |
Translhextion is what I use (well, I haven't hacked in awhile so "used" might be the right word), but only because I'm too lazy and set in my ways- I wouldn't reccomend it. |
| Celice Posts: 35/355 |
I have to try out a few of these. My editor of choice has a broken search function.
I'll try that Windhex32. |
| Gideon Zhi Posts: 4/125 |
Originally posted by Datahax Wrong. Translhextion is big, clunky, buggy, can't search properly, has a dump format that makes me want to gouge my eyes out and eat brains, and is in general a piece of trash. Windhex32, on the other hand, is small, sleek, lets you specify an external script dumper if you want, can load two tables at a time plus ascii, has built-in Unicode Japanese support and sports a ton of (fully functional) search options. Accept no substitutes! |
| Datahax Posts: 8/13 |
yea UltraEdit-32 is also a very nice hex edtior, however if your doing a translation or a hack of the script in a game probably Translhextion best. |
| T.Geiger Posts: 5/26 |
I use Hex Workshop myself. Its incredibly powerful.
No goto feature, steps are in terms of hex digits rather than bytes. While its true that there is no goto feature specifically (you could always change the range), I am not sure what you mean by "steps". Are you talking about the width of the rows? ---T.Geiger |
| DJ Bouche Posts: 4/111 |
My history of hex editors are as follows:
Thingy (tried 32 but absolutely hated it) -> Translhextion (never used this for large text hacking projects though) -> Hex Workshop. Today I still use Hex Workshop since it's fairly robust especially with large files, I keep Translhextion as its relative search feature is useful to me. Tried XVI32, but it's interface just isn't for me. I may give this Windhex32 a look though. |
| creaothceann Posts: 4/43 |
WinHex, mainly just for viewing though. |
| Mediocre Ibex? Posts: 2/18 |
Hiew 6.11 for DOS by SEN, mainly
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| Tzepish Posts: 10/117 |
Hey, good deal on the new thingy! I crashed when I clicked on Options, however. Heh. But for now, this is what I'm using.
So I downloaded and tried Winhex32, and there's a lot I like compared to thingy (ability to type directly into the data, customizable color coded stuff), but it's more difficult to type in raw hex. Maybe I'll give Translhextion and XVI32 a shot later today. Also, I use UltraEdit at work, and I didn't realize it was a hex editor as well...? Thanks for the all the replies, guys. |
| Master Higgins Posts: 31/72 |
I've uploaded a version of Thingy32 that i modified on rapidshare. It's version 0.23, but it includes another little feature that allows you to write also bytes of any value. You just press tab for each byte you're gonna write when you've selected an area to edit, and put the byte value on the tiny textbox that appears in the dialog. Use lowecase for the hex writen in the textbox (i.e.: that is, "f5" instead of "F5"). I tested the program and it changes the text inmediately after pushing enter after editing. I had similar problems with the program in another PC that had win98. I don't know if that's the problem.
Here's the link |
| Datahax Posts: 7/13 |
I use for the most part UltraEdit-32. |
| blackhole89 Posts: 35/427 |
XVI32, because tools you use every day should not be fancy or anything, but just work. I use it for both windows exe and ROM hacking.
If I need to do special tasks like tables, converting N-SPC data or generating lengthy x86 instruction chains, I usually quickly write console programs in MSVC for them. I feel more confident in C/C++ than any spoken language, so it really is less work than looking up a tool for the respective task for me.  |
| MathOnNapkins Posts: 32/1106 |
I just might have to give XVI32 a shot...
The only things I could really use out of XVI32 that it doesn't have is a file compare function, and the ability to color code certain sections of a file (code versus data basically) |
| BMF54123 Posts: 70/876 |
I currently use a combination of XTree Gold (an ancient DOS file-management utility) and Translhextion. I keep XTree around for its no-frills hex editor, which edits files directly on the disk (i.e. no filesize limit) and has a rather speedy search function. It also displays ASCII stuff properly, such as .NFO files, due to its DOS-ish nature. Translhextion handles my everyday hex-editing tasks, but gets really crashy if I switch programs too much, try to open large files, or add/remove too many bytes. I just might have to give XVI32 a shot... |
| Gavin Posts: 28/181 |
Wow, what the hell is wrong with you people? You're using broken relics. Seriously.
Originally posted by Dragonsbrethren This is probably one of the best, and if FCEUXD didn't have an inline hex editor I would still be using it. However not having to reload the rom to see ROM hex changes? Mother-fucking pricesless  . Too bad it's not so nice on MTE, so I reverted back to WindHex for the Grand Master translation  |
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