Title  | Author | Description | Category | Platform | Game | OS | Ver | Date |
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 Arabic Script Convertor | A7mad | A tool used to convert raw Arabic text to text using letters more compatible with hex editors, with an option to generate directly hex data to copy to your favorite hex editor. It’s not really a full-fledged hex editor in the sense that it do…. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 3.0 | 10 Oct 2014 |
 chFile | rwonsik | This is a Polish language hex editor written in Delphi.
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| Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 1.0.1 | 27 Apr 2005 |
 Cygnus Hex Editor | Soft Circuits | The fastest and easiest hex editor is now available for free! SoftCircuits has made a version of its Cygnus Hex Editor available to the public as a free hex editor. There is no charge and no catch. Simply download the program and start using it today…. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 1.00 | 09 Oct 2005 |
 DataWorkshop | Martin Pape | Summary DataWorkshop is an editor to view and modify binary data. The editor provides different views which can be used to edit, analyze and export the binary data. A simple hex view can be used to simulate a standard hexeditor but more com…. | Hex Editors | Multiple | N/A | Java | 1.1 | 12 Jul 2004 |
 Direct Hex-Edit | Bongo` | A decent DOS hex editor. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | DOS | 0.90 | 02 Apr 2000 |
 Direct32 | Bongo` | A good DOS hex editor. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | DOS | 0.70 | 17 Oct 2001 |
 GoldFinger | Ajax | This little thing is incredible. If you’re looking for a feature filled hex editor that has specific ROM hacking features, you should give this a try. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 0.7.6.9 | 08 Apr 2001 |
 Hex Master | Fernando Aires Castello | This is a nice little Java program I’ve made, which you can use to dump and edit binary files (such as game ROM images). This version is available in PORTUGUESE language only. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Java | 1.0 | 01 Feb 2010 |
 Hexecute | mdw | A very cool hex editor source code included. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | DOS | 1.20 | 15 Jul 1999 |
 Hexecute | mdw | A very cool hex editor with source code included. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 3.0rc7v2 | 10 Apr 2002 |
 Hexecute (Crash Fix Version) | NightWolve | Hexecute seems to have been abandoned by its creator, Mike Walston, and is about 10 years old since this release. It used to work well enough for doing quick searches of Japanese text (when you wanna find an offset), but couldn’t open anything …. | Hex Editors | Multiple | N/A | Win | 3.10 | 16 May 2012 |
| Hexedit | Prez | Prez added some romhacking related features to an open source hex editor resulting in one of the few linux hacking tools. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Unix | 0.9.3 | 08 Apr 2000 |
 Hexposure | SnowBro | My all time favorite translation centered hex editor. An easy to use interface (press ESC to access menus), a nice layout, it was the only hex editor I used for the longest time. If you can still run dos programs, I’d recommend giving it a shot. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | DOS | .44 | 26 Feb 1999 |
 Hexposure | Djinn | Completely rewritten version of good old Hexposure. Now it’s compatible with Windows XP. This is an UNOFFICIAL version written by Djinn and not the original author. Best Hex Editor for MS-DOS and now works in Windows XP. New features: Two …. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 3.666 | 30 Apr 2008 |
 HexTraImp | Urbano Pereira da Silva | The tool HexTraImp is a stand alone java command line tool, based on reading, writing and overwriting data in files in hexadecimal level. The HexTraImp is a simple tool composed of only two options, import and export data hexadecimal. Purposes of…. | Hex Editors | Multiple | N/A | Java | 1.0 | 20 Oct 2013 |
 Jinx | Android 18 | Jinx is a hex editor written in Perl, based on Thingy. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 0.11 | 18 Aug 2002 |
 LemASM | Lemmy | A hex edit with features specifically geared towards N64 hacking. | Hex Editors | N64 | N/A | Win | .1 | 09 Feb 2000 |
 MacThing | Black Rabite | This is a text extractor/insertor for Mac OS X. It is a PPC Carbon application, but it runs under Rosetta. Source is included. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Mac OS X | 0.4.5 | 29 Oct 2008 |
 NES Write | Matrixz | This utility purports to be a graphical text editor, meaning you see the text in the form of the font used within the ROM. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | DOS | 2.10 | 20 Jun 2002 |
 Nightmare 2 | Hextator | A revision of the original Nightmare, which is a program that parses text files into GUIs for editing files they are made for by textually describing locations of data in those files and how they should be edited. Obviously, as a revision, this ap…. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Java | 20111218 | 18 Dec 2011 |
| Rhack | Pelrun | A tableless text editor. Not quite a hex editor, but not a script dumper either, so it goes here. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | DOS | .80 | 01 Feb 1998 |
 ROM Editor | Mythical Raven | This is a barebones hex editor that uses it’s own proprietary .nic files in place of .tbl files. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 2.00.0019 | 28 Oct 2000 |
 ROMedit | Jason Lucas | A tableless text editor. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | DOS | 2.25 | 31 Aug 1997 |
 SNESEdit | SinaP | Text editing, searching, tile editing, and several other interesting features. Includes Windows and DOS executables | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 0.98.335 | 18 Feb 2001 |
 Sonic One Music Editor | Fuzzbuzz | Sonic One Music Editor (SOME) is a utility by fuzzbuzz that can edit voices in clean Sonic 1 ROMS, as well as individual .bin songs. SOME includes the ability to import voices from a Yamaha DX11 / DX21 / DX27 / DX27S / DX100 / TX81Z system exclusi…. | Hex Editors | GEN | Sonic the Hedgehog | Win | 1.0 | 04 Dec 2020 |
 Thingy | necrosaro | One of the great text/hex editors of old. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | DOS | 1.01 | 24 Oct 2001 |
 Thingy32 | ZackMan | A windows port of the great dos editor. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 0.20 | 30 Aug 2001 |
 Thingy32 Unofficial Locale Fix | Tauwasser | This is a fixed version of Thingy32 that changes the behavior of file reads. The original thingy32 version would crash if the computer’s locale supported more than 256 characters (Japanese, Chinese etc.). This behavior was changed and all other …. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 0.1.0.10 | 15 Nov 2008 |
 Tiny Hexer | Markus Stephany | If you need a modern and table-compatible Hex Editor, this is a good option. Create your own table: Options - Plugin Settings - Custom Character Translation Table Load your table: View - Character translation - Custom translation | Hex Editors | Multiple | N/A | Win | 1.8.1.6 | 30 Jul 2012 |
 Translhextion | Januschan | A very nice full featured hex/text editor. Source files can be found at http://www.romhacking.net/documents/429/ for those interested. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 1.6c | 17 Jun 2010 |
 UHR | Khenshin | A suite of tools in a nice package. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | dev 4 | 10 Sep 2001 |
 UniROM | _Bnu | This is an older hex editor with support for DTE, MBE and a few other features. It was good in it’s time but not so useful now. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | DOS | 0.60 | 23 Oct 1998 |
 VHex | Jay | A tableless text editor/viewer written by Jay. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | DOS | 1.1.1 | 24 Apr 1998 |
 WindHex32 | Bongo` | This is an all in one utility written by Bongo’ of Stealth Translations (now Dynamic Designs). It’s becoming the preferred base ROM hacking tool as of late 2006 (updated as of 2018). It’s many features include table making & handl…. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | Win | 2018.8.2 | 29 Jul 2007 |
 wxMEdit | JiaYanwei | wxMEdit is a great cross-platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ & wxWidgets. wxMEdit is an improved version of MadEdit which has been discontinued. wxMEdit can edit files in Text/Column/Hex modes, and supports many useful functions, e.g. Boo…. | Hex Editors | Multiple | N/A | Win | 3.1 | 13 Mar 2016 |
 XLate | Planet X Software | A classic text editor with plenty of additional features for romhacking. | Hex Editors | N/A | N/A | DOS | 3.0pre | 24 Dec 1997 |
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