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ImHex creator publishes guide to reverse-engineering FEZ's binary save format

The developer behind the ImHex hex editor wrote a tutorial demonstrating how to reverse-engineer an undocumented binary file format, using the 2012 game FEZ's save file as the example. The walkthrough shows how to move from raw hex bytes to a complete structure definition written in ImHex's Pattern Language, a feature available on the free, open-source, cross-platform tool.

werwolv.net · 2026-08-31

Bine hex editor adds ASCII-column shading instead of full color highlighting

The developer of the bine hex editor explored adding colorized output similar to Vim's xxd, but found that per-character coloring was too costly under the ncurses-based movwin TUI framework. Instead, bine now uses special block characters (▓ for NUL bytes, ░ for non-printable bytes) in the ASCII column to visually distinguish text from binary data without expensive per-cell rendering calls.

movq.de · 2026-08-24