how to edit dat file?

Question

hi, i have small tetris game, i want to edit its high scores, but when i open it's .dat file i don't know how to edit it, as its with ASCII or what SOH DC4 NUL x

SOH DC4 NUL There are plenty of these characters in that dat file, is it possible to edit this, or is there any program?

Answer 1

First, highlight it - CNTL-C and CNTL-V. This will make a copy of it.



Then right click on the file and choose Edit.



Honestly - you should go to odesk.com - and pay someone to do this.

Answer 2

Try an hexadecimal editor, but it's harder that what you think.



I remember years ago, I wrote a bmp extractor using TC 3.0 (so under DOS),

and that program was able to extract bmp's from windows files, it took me months to understand

how it was coded.

Answer 3

It is a binary file, to edit it you would need to be a programmer. One wrong click in the file and it will corrupt and no longer work.