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[Lord of Gamehacking]

Im trying to modify a .sav file for a game im hacking by using a hex editor but i dont quite understand what...

BF C1 B4 A7 FB 6C 9C 62 BB C6 33 8C 43 E7 7E 87

...means. But i do know is that each pair (e.g. BF) represents something like a number for example. How can i convert this to text without ending up with...

¿Á´§ûlœb»Æ3ŒCç~‡

...or does it not work like that?

[Zanzer]

What makes you think that value represents a string and is the value you're looking for?
Since you're using a hex editor, chances are the save file is encrypted.
That means you can't simply see what values those bytes actually represent.
Otherwise, you'd be using a normal text editor.
You would need to know how to decrypt the bytes to find a value and then know how to encrypt the bytes to replace them.
Sure you can change random bytes around and see what effect that has in-game... but good luck.

[Lord of Gamehacking]

I attempted to try to figure out what they meant by translating the UTF-8 to "Escaped" ASCII using the internet.

u00BBRh\u00CB\u20305\u2018Q\\Gq)

Not really sure where to go from here. Im new to all of this.

Maybe i can use a decompiler?

[atom0s]

Save game files are usually never plain text unless its for things like a character name etc. The data is typically binary data stored into a flat file. It is data representing various information such as a structure. Think of it like: