Any Hex Editor Sugggestions?

[Nominus Experse]

See title.

Basically, I want an editor that does many things, and does them all well. Even better if it's directed at a user that is somewhat new to hex editing.

Thanks in advance.


P.S. What happened to the Cookie Monster icon for thread titles? I miss it terribly so.

[o_O]

I've used <a href="http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/">WinHex</a> on Windows in the past, which was quite nice though not free.

Check out <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hex_editors">this page on Wikipedia</a> for a nice comparison of different hex editors.

[Nominus Experse]

I want to love on you, o_O

[o_O]

I'm quite ok with that.

[crono_logical]

As far as free ones goes, I use frhed (on that wiki page too) which is especially nice with the partial file open feature if I only need to look at a certian part of a massive file

The only problems I have with it is it can't open files with non-english names so I have to rename them first. Also it lacks a nice but rare feature I saw once many years ago where you could do a kind of "differencing search" (not sure what the proper term is) - basically searching for "ABDE" also matches "bcef", "1245" etc where the string is the same as the searched with the bytes all offset by the same amount. I think it was some software specially for hacking games/ROMs, but I've yet to find another hex editor with that feature, and I can't find the original tool I found that feature in