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Screenshot of a Twitter post by @sirocyl: “what’s a good hex editor - preferably for windows - for annotating structs and stuff? I’d normally use audacity but I figure there’s gotta be something better for this.” Attached to the post is a screenshot of Audacity showing two tracks, one of a binary file being interpreted as audio, zoomed-in at the sample level where individual bits can be edited, and a label track with labels such as “IMGDATA_MAGIC”, “IMGDATA_FILE_NAME (1)”, “Width (1)” and “Height (1)”.
ImHex (https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex) is the answer but I fear showing OOP that program might lock them into hyperfixation until they starve.
ImHex is amazing. I use it as a save game editor mostly.
I’ve gotten stuck in the hyperfixation of building pattern files for old video game save files to the point where I’m vibrating from low blood sugar after not eating for 10 hours a few times now… That and when trying to figure out the save logic in ghidra when the game is using some ancient version of C
Having a complete pattern file for a game save is such a good feeling, able to open the file, apply the pattern, and then browse the data in a tree structure to easily do save editing etc.
You have to check it out though! There’s so much there, including some possibilities for automating OPs workflow. This sort of stuff is outside my wheelhouse but it’s got automated patern detection, options to run a fancy disassembler that does the job for you. And the UI is so slick! I just leave it up as eye candy sometimes 🤓
I don’t get it, I am tired l, pls enlighten me
ImHex is a very good hex editor. My “joke” if you can call it that, was that the type of person who’d use audacity as a hex editor would be so enamored by the vast array of features in ImHex they’d never stop playing around to it to the point of starving because they’d forget to eat.