Mod:Hex Editor

Modifying PC Dead Rising 2

Dead Rising 2 PC Mods Forum Performance guide Index of all mods on forum Tutorials Opening files to edit (Gibbed's) Debug mode Swap characters (model swap) Import models   Dead Rising 1 models Placing characters   Enlarging/resizing characters Create reskins Adding & removing items   Coordinates/rotation   Resize/enlarge items Changing text Weapon modifications Remove missing prop box List of what each file does All game items (items.txt)   Item animations (PyroEffect)     Bigfile.xml All game text All missions and cases (missions.txt)   Times of all missions   Mission breakdown All major packed files (big files)   datafile.big   Character models (npcs.big) Sgraph - animations HUD (game player's interface) Camera.txt (camera view) Lighting Zombie models Game rules (frontend) Cutscenes (cinematics.big) Environment   Royal Flush Plaza   Safe House   Americana Casino   Fortune City Arena Collision - controls solid surfaces Excel coordinates of all areas Tools Gibbed's tools Hex editor Other Ubtri's Mod Infinity Mode mod Zombie mode mod

Dead Rising 2
Cases and Missions • Characters • Weapons • Stores • Endings

A hex editor (or binary file editor or byte editor) is a type of computer program that allows a user to manipulate the fundamental binary (0 / 1, zero / one) data that makes up computer files.

Dead Rising 2 game calls (requests) certain binary text by line. For example, data/datafile.big/items.txt tells the game what line of code to use for a:

• character's notebook description (Rebecca's: line 65529),
• display name above character (Rebecca's: line 50047),
• character's full name in the notebook (Rebecca's: 81585),
• Rescue quote (Cinda Smith's: 65424)

For more information on editing the text found in Dead Rising 2 using a Hex Editor, please see Changing Text.

Notepad++

Plugin >> hex editor hex editor with notepad ++ program The free program Notepad++ has a hex editor plug in. There is an article on this plug in. To install the HEX Editor plugin, extract the HexEditor.dll file from the downloaded ZIP file, and copy it to Notepad++\plugins folder: C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins or C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins. Open the hex file in notepad++ Navigate to Plugin >> hex editor

Best Free Hex Editors

There is an article on the Best Free Hex Editors

XVI32

XVI32 is terrible for copying and pasting.

Hexplorer

Hexplorer, with its matrix type layout, was able to copy text easily.

How to copy text, retaining all paragraph marks/line breaks in document.

The text size of Hexplorer by default is small. First change the text size. To retain all paragraph marks/line breaks in document, replace 00 with 25. Result paragraph marks changed to % / 00 changed to 25. Edit >> select all When selected, the entire screen becomes purple. Edit >> copy as >> Filtered text This copies the entire hex file to the clip board. Microsoft Word Paste the text into Microsoft Word. Then in Microsoft word, find and replace (ctrl+h) : % with ^p (paragraph mark). Add line numbers in Microsoft Word File >> page setup >> Layout tab >> Line Numbers Button >> Add line numbering >> continuous

Motorcycle

Replace hex to regular text

This tool which replaces hex to string (regular text) online. There are several other online applications which do the same thing which you can find online by googling.

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