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An agent cracked a game's file format and built the reader, audit tool and site

Fable reverse engineered the Satisfactory blueprint file format and wrote a reader, a graph auditing tool, and a website; work that would have taken a couple of weeks by hand.

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  1. The agent reverse engineers the game's blueprint file format
  2. Writes a reader, a graph auditing tool and a website
  3. Work that would have taken a couple of weeks by hand

Why it’s worth knowing

Reverse engineering a save format is a key that opens a whole modding scene.

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Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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