Looking for a good Endian converter

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Boogeyman · #1 Post by **Boogeyman** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:41 am

This is so I can convert my QFGV saved games from Mac(Big Endian), to PC(Little Endian).

Pidgeot · #2 Post by **Pidgeot** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:59 pm

It's not quite that simple. Endianness merely describes which byte goes first, but without knowledge of the "field sizes" used, it's not possible to flip them around (you can't tell 2 2-byte fields apart from a 4-byte field, or even 4 single bytes - so you don't know how to change it).

Have you tried using them as-is? There's a (small) chance they used an endian-neutral format (assuming the format is similar in the first place).

Boogeyman · #3 Post by **Boogeyman** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:33 pm

They don't.
Why would I be asking this if they did?

Here are some saves at the beginning of the Mac and Windows versions:
http://www.mediafire.com/?02jn9tykyd2

Pidgeot · #4 Post by **Pidgeot** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:50 pm

Boogeyman wrote:They don't.
Why would I be asking this if they did?

I've made it a habit to make sure users have tried the most obvious ways first. You'd be surprised at some of the things I've experienced without doing this.

I took a quick look, and if these two are saved in similar situations (scene, character stats and name, etc.), then it doesn't seem to be enough to just ensure endianess - there seems to be way too many differences for that to be the case. It might be necessary to reverse-engineer the format to get anything transferred.

Vildern · #5 Post by **Vildern** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:19 pm

Boogeyman wrote:They don't.
Why would I be asking this if they did?

lol hehe. good point.