Binxelview 1.6.6.0

Binxelview binary image explorer

Version 1.6.6.0
2024-11-15
Brad Smith et al.

https://github.com/bbbradsmith/binxelview
http://rainwarrior.ca

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/binxelview-1-6-114017389

This is a relatively simple tool for making visual analysis of data in binary files. It is intended to find and visualize data that is organized in a grid within the file, to assist locating uncompressed graphical image, or tile based video game maps, or other appropriate data within the file.

This is not a generic image viewing tool, nor is it an editing tool. I wrote it to use as the first step in analyzing or reverse engineering unknown file formats, which might contain data that can be identified visually in a grid. Once the data is identified and located within the file, more work would follow with other appropriate tools.

Changes

1.6.6.0 (2024-11-15)

• Option persistence, INI file save and load.
• Command line arguments for options.
• Pixel window option for second viewing window.
• Maximum file size increased from 256MB to 2GB.
• Option to disable grid padding between cells.
• "Export Binary Chunk" option added to File menu. (Contributor: damieng)
• File menu reload option.
• Added global Ctrl hotkeys.
• Right click context menu option to move position to the selected pixel.
• Right click context menu option to copy to the palette starting from the selected pixel.
• Added Cubehelix automatic palette option.
• 16BPP palette support.
• Can now switch from custom palette to auto palette and back without reloading the palette.
• Random palette now supported above 16BPP.
• Automatic palette modes are now a dropdown list.
• Tab stop organization of interface. (Contributor: Erquint)
• "Little Endian" renamed to "Reverse Byte" for clarity.
• Limit width to 65536 to prevent out of memory from accidentally typing huge widths.
• Correct loaded presets if they have impossible values.
• Add PDB to release package to assist debugging.
• Indicate hexadecimal position with bold font.
• Fix crash bug when lowering BPP and bit ordering grid was scrolled down too far.
• Fix image loaded as palette not releasing file handle.
• Remember last used file type filter from the load palette dialog.
• Removed default preset, as persistent options will remember your last preset instead.
• Indicate selected preset in the presets menu.
• Added redundant menu option for background colour, to find easier and be keyboard accessible.
• Use byte/bit for default chunky table instead of just bit.
• Use full color picker dialog by default.
• Palette load option for common VGA format. (Contributor: foone)
• Microsoft RIFF palette support.
• GB CHR 8px preset. (Contributor: Lord-Nightmare)
• ZX Spectrum preset. (Contributor: damieng)
• SNES 8BPP preset. (Contributor: ButThouMust)
• Genesis/MegaDrive 8px preset.
• PS1 15BPP and 4BPP presets. (Contributor: HeyItsLollie)
• VGA Palette preset.

Fixes since 1.6.0.0

• Pixel Window drag drop support.
• Use byte/bit for default chunky table instead of just bit.
• Fix bug with new version 3 preset loading.
• Genesis/MegaDrive 8px preset.
• Indicate selected preset in the presets menu.
• Fix relative INI path edge case, when the target directory has a similar name to the INI directory.
• Change "current folder" to "select folder" in preset directory selector.
• Fix Pixel View not updating scroll position on first open.
• Improve update inefficiency which was causing unintended recursion.
• Fix crash bug when lowering BPP and bit ordering grid was scrolled down too far.
• 16BPP palette support.
• Use full color picker dialog by default.
• Random palette now supported above 16BPP.
• Can now switch from custom palette to auto palette and back without reloading the palette.
• Fix initialization crash on some systems? #29
• Add PDB to release package to assist debugging.
• Fix initialization crash. #30
• Correct loaded presets if they have impossible values.

Binxelview 1.5.0.0

Binxelview binary image explorer

Version 1.5.0.0
2020-07-31
Brad Smith

https://github.com/bbbradsmith/binxelview
http://rainwarrior.ca

This is a relatively simple tool for making visual analysis of data in binary files.
It is intended to find and visualize data that is organized in a grid within the file,
to assist locating uncompressed graphical image, or tile based video game maps,
or other appropriate data within the file.

This is not a generic image viewing tool, nor is it an editing tool.
I wrote it to use as the first step in analyzing or reverse engineering unknown file formats,
which might contain data that can be identified visually in a grid.
Once the data is identified and located within the file,
more work would follow with other appropriate tools.

Unstable preview builds:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/bbbradsmith/binxelview/branch/master/artifacts

Requirements

.NET 4 framework
Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8, 10

The .NET runtime can be downloaded here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=17718

This project is open source, and might be compatible with other .NET frameworks,
which could potentially enable use on other platforms.