Hex Editor Programs

Hi,

Could someone please recommend a really good HEX editing program? I'm working on modifying a game and am in need of a really good HEX editor (the one's I have are okay, but just wanted to check if there were any better one's out there).

Thanks!

I use Ultra Edit

I was using Hex Workshop.

I usually use a simple thing called HEdit32. It is simple, but fits my needs. If you would like to try some editors, here's an overview of some:

http://www.thefreecountry.com/develo...semblers.shtml

I find Hackman is really good, and very free.

I second that brian, its available at www.download.com

I (honestly) think that HyperEdit is really good.
Mostly because I often want to edit large files.

http://www.strandmark.com/hyperedit.shtml

There's a pretty good one I use on Linux called... well I forget the name. But it was packaged with mandrake 9.

On windows ive been using Hex Workshop and TSearch for editing process memory.

http://download.com.com/3000-2352-10...ml?tag=lst-0-4

RoD: Yeah, HackMan seems good, but it messes up if files larger than 4GB is opened.

Edit: Hmm.. I think it's written in VB. It feels very strange to use hacker tools written in VB.

hmm ok:

http://download.com.com/3000-2352-10...ml?tag=lst-0-3

http://download.com.com/3000-2352-10...ml?tag=lst-0-5

http://download.com.com/3000-2352-10...l?tag=lst-0-18

I dont have one to recommend. But i just want to ask that how would hex editors come in useful in editing games. Or, what are hex editors for? Why would you want to look at hex values of a program? How would it be useful?

thnx.

I use it look at specific places in memory - it's easy since I'm on a small chip.

Hex editors are usepul to edit files that aren't plain text and therefore cannot be opened with a text editor.

Yes but after you open the files and look at the values what do you do with them.

Well, you can change them or use them for debugging information - those're the two most common ways that I can think of.

Thnx, but i think i'll need to see a practical case scenario to fully understand its usefulness ^.^.

OK, I'm programming a small micro. There's no easy way to debug it. Fortunately, there is a way to dump the contents of the memory to a .bin file. I can open that with a hex editor and see what values were in memory at the time of the dump. This is very useful in debugging.

Sometimes if I need to alter one of the colours in a paletted bit map file, I'll open the .bmp with UltraEdit and manually fix the palette entry. Damn quicker than loading into a graphics editor, extracting the palette, fiddling with it with their "productivity tools" then writing the whole thing back out!

For embedded systems without a good development suite, a hex editor is an essential item.

If you have Visual C++, you already have one built in, but it's called the binary editor. Unfortunately, it probably doesn't have all the features of a stand-alone hex editor.