Reverse Engineering

[Timeslave]

I was wondering if anyone had any tips on reverse engineering. I'm working on (as I'm sure a few of you have realized by now) reverse engineering data formats used in ff:origins and I seem to be running into problems left right and center.

Does anyone have any tools that they couldn't live without or just general tips for tackling a large file?

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated

thanks

[mirex]

Tools i cannot live without ... one is a Dos Navigator, i cannot live and rip data without it, its just a command shell generally but it has nice hex view / editor and great calculator built in. Did i mentioned its great ?

I made some tools that helped me too ... i dont use them anymore .. they are crappy but they were helpful .. http://mirex.mypage.sk/FILES/tools.rar

Generally i try to search for filenames or file offsets in there ... offsets and filesizes are usually stored as long integers, (4 bytes), so they are easy to see in hex view.

[Timeslave]

Thanks for the advice, I'm going to check out those tools.

By the way, I just made a pretty big breakthrough with the ff2 stuff I was working on so If anyone cares, I could post my findings.

It could be pseudo relevant to the ff7 work that goes on around here