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ImHex

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WerWolv / ImHex

ImHex

🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

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🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

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For anyone who regularly has to look at/analyze binary files, i highly recommend ImHex [1]. Its a hex editor built with imgui and has a lot of built in tools. Imo the best…

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2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	2	2
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2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	11	1	10
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
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vg_head·Dec 30, 2023

My experience with parsing undocumented binary formats is with Skia's skp files. Unfortunately they don’t publish any docs regarding the format. Instead I relied on their source code (which is very convoluted), and in that process I discovered two tools which proved pretty useful: - Kaitai [1], which takes as input a YAML file and can parse binary files based on it (and even generate parsers). - ImHex [2], which has a pattern language [3] which allows parsing, and it seems more powerful than what Kaitai offers. I stumbled upon some limitations with it but it was still useful. [1]: https://kaitai.io/ [2]: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex [3]: https://docs.werwolv.net/pattern-language/

In Parsing an Undocumented File Format

cedws·Dec 20, 2023

ImGui is brilliant. I can highly recommend this hex editor built using it: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

In Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++

spuz·Nov 30, 2023

Another good option is ImHex which is an open source hex editor that supports file patterns. The gif pattern is one of the patterns already available: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

In The weirdest bug I've seen yet

wsxarcher·Nov 5, 2023

I suggest https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex instead

In Hexabyte – A modern, robust, and extensible commandline hex editor

chx·Jun 17, 2023

My, that is very useful. I have been out of the bit land for a very, very long time -- the last of my assembly programs are old enough to drink -- but I am increasingly finding myself running hexdump again and it's not a great experience. I expected better in 2023 and here it is. I will explore but https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/blob/c2e023f567d4e838ea69e6... this makes me super-duper hopeful. UTF-8 capable ex viewer, that'd be handy.

In Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer with colorized output

denysvitali·Jun 16, 2023

If you want a true Hex Editor (or better, Hex IDE), I strongly suggest you to take a look ad ImHex [1]. [1]: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

In Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer with colorized output

lars_francke·Jun 4, 2023

You might be interested in ImHex https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex Seems similar to Hexfiend but cross platform and very powerful. I have never used Hexfiend though, so can't really compare. Just going by the GitHub readme.

In GNU poke: an extensible editor for structured binary data

_pmf_·Jun 3, 2023

I'd also like to throw https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex in the mix here.

In Fq: Jq for Binary Formats

lars_francke·Feb 9, 2023

I don't know how popular Gravitrax is state-side. For those who don't know, it's a popular marble run system with dozens of extensions from Ravensburger[1] (see what can be build in a recent video here[9]), our kids love it! And a Junior version for kids 3+ is coming out this year. It comes with a free app that can be used to build courses and then also share those courses via a simple short code. The app can also display all the tiles you need to build a course. What is not possible is to list available courses or check whether you have enough tiles to build a specific course. Chris Fuchser (The Masked Marble on Youtube[2]) built something called Gravisheet[3] which is a Google Sheet where he collects codes from the app and also lists which tiles you need and so on. This is awesome and a great start! Unfortunately, it requires a lot of m

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anual work so at christmas when my kids (ahem...) got their first set I got started reverse engineering the file format Ravensburger uses and built a small library/site to display information about it. The source code can be found on Github[4] and the site is also hosted on a free fly.io machine[5]. You can already see a JSON dump of the binary file contents[6] and also get a Bill of Materials[7] for a course. On the frontpage you can say which sets or extensions you have and get a list of courses. This is all very rudimentary, mostly because of lack of time and lack of frontend skills but maybe it is useful to someone. I'd love feedback (and contributions)! Tech stack: - Rust backend with Axum - Storage in Postgres - Frontend in Svelte The ImHex editor was incredibely helpful in reverse engineering the format[8]! Thank you very much for the author, he was very helpful as well. [1] https://www.ravensburger.us/discover/gravitrax/index.html [2] https://www.youtube.com/@MaskedMarble/videos [3] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T-hLIBz05q4QMlt7xQ63... [4] https://github.com/lfrancke/murmelbahn [5] https://murmelbahn.fly.dev/index.html [6] https://murmelbahn.fly.dev/course/83JFIBBI7H/dump [7] https://murmelbahn.fly.dev/course/83JFIBBI7H/bom [8] https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsglFJWVTMg

In Show HN: Murmelbahn - Reverse engineered the Gravitrax course file format