Suddenly, for some strange reason, you need to edit a hex file. We don’t know why, but if you are reading Hackaday, it isn’t that big of a stretch to imagine it. What do you do? Download and ...

There are tools that will do it for you, but they cost money. You can do it yourself with a hex editor, though, and it’s actually pretty easy. The software required for this feat of data ...

A program that displays every character in a file in hexadecimal notation. Also called a "binary editor," hex editors are used extensively in program development to view the actual content of a ...

Abrupt power outage. Sudden Windows OS crash while editing a document. Malware or virus attack. You can open CHK files using any hex editor, but all you’ll see is gibberish. To open it ...

00, the second saveengn.01, and so on). You must be able to HEX edit. For example, you can give a character 1,000,000,000 GP like this: Offset 041F is part of the field for Gold. Change it from ...