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I've been reverse engineering some old Minecraft Legacy Console Edition save files with ImHex and the pattern templates work pretty well, though debugging is sometimes painful (e.g. reading runtime-sized arrays can just overflow the file and error without showing previously decoded structs). Great tool though. LLMs are, of course, scarily good at reverse engineering and spotting patterns that take me way too much effort to spot.

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