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Corvallis5
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I looked it up on google, but I still don't get it. I've heard that games like Minigolf Madness and CS2D can be hex-edited too.
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All files on windows are binary, meaning they are stored as one and zeros. If you were to binary-edit a file it wouldn't make much sense.

A hex-editor on the other hand converts the binary into hex-->which can then be translated into ascii.

A hex editor views the raw data of a file, which allows editing of some string and other data.

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Ooh oooh oooh. Me, me, me!

Files are stored, in the harddrive, or anywhere else, as a series of 1's and 0's. When you access them, whatever you're accessing them with interprets the data into something useful. Now, binary, or the 1's and 0's, is just a number system. It can easily be converted into octal, decimal, or hexadecimal. 1010 is the same as 10, or 12 in octal, or 'a' in hexadecimal.
When you use a [raw] text editor, such as notepad, it takes those numbers and converts them into characters (For example, 72 is 'H'), and displays them for you. However, this is only useful for files that have numbers that translate into text.
HexEditors just display the raw data as hexadecimal, for any file.

Also, PhYtoN, WTF was the point of that?

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like how do you hex-edit games and such. Like in some old thread DC got mad at the idea for hex-editing CS2D but he was tolerant for hex-editing minigolf madness.

Also what are some hex-editors?

free ones?

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Well, hex editing can be used to change some in-game data for everyday gameplay, like the names of the teams, names of weapons. All that stuff. It can also be used to find vulnerabilities to make hacks.

I had some hex-editor, don't remember it's name though. Just google "hex edit". I will post the name once I get to my PC.

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user palomino has written
Well, hex editing can be used to change some in-game data for everyday gameplay, like the names of the teams, names of weapons. All that stuff. It can also be used to find vulnerabilities to make hacks.

I had some hex-editor, don't remember it's name though. Just google "hex edit". I will post the name once I get to my PC.


i used to have one too..

anywho.. probably wouldn't be best to explain these sort of things because them noobs will most likely now try to use a hex editor.

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ignore the hex part. it's just about editing files. all sorts of files. nothing more and nothing less. like opening a text in a text editor but more "low level"

hex is just one format to display the stuff. a 2 digit hex-code is just a bit easier to read for humans than an 8 digit binary-code. ASCII is even easier, showing the letters directly - if the data you're editing is text, otherwise this will be unreadable crap to.

it's hard to hex edit stuff which is not text. you have to have knowledge about the structure of the file you're editing. doesn't work without that. changing text is quite simple though. just replace the letters with others (you'll have to keep the length the same in many cases).

the good thing about hex-editing: you normally don't have to do it.

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@user A Mad Bro: Why? 2 digit Hex Code is the representation of 8 digit binary.
1 digit Hex = 4 digit binary.
since binary is always represented in 4 digits, it's 2*4 digits binary = 32 different states. 1 digit hex = 16 different states. 2*16 different states = 32 different states. That's the same amount.

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user ohaz has written
@user A Mad Bro: Why? 2 digit Hex Code is the representation of 8 digit binary.
1 digit Hex = 4 digit binary.
since binary is always represented in 4 digits, it's 2*4 digits binary = 32 different states. 1 digit hex = 16 different states. 2*16 different states = 32 different states. That's the same amount.


i see what u did there

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user A Mad Bro has written
probably because i am
so theres nothing wrong with it


Oh there is...
Rules has written
× 5.1 - Show good behavior and simply don't be a stupid asshole

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user Mechanolith has written
user A Mad Bro has written
probably because i am
so theres nothing wrong with it


Oh there is...
Rules has written
× 5.1 - Show good behavior and simply don't be a stupid asshole


ive always wanted to say something smart like that to DC.. but i always miss the chance or temp banned

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user Corvallis5 has written
how do you make sense of hexadecimal code?

It's just a number system. Base-10, our common one, is not special or easy. It's just what we're used to.
To convert hexadecimal into decimal:

0xA8DF
It would be
F (15) +
16 * D (13) +
16 * 16 * 8 +
16 * 16 * 16 * A (10)
=
43231.
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