Hey guys. I am relatively new to the cracking scene. I have only done simple NOOP patches for basic software using W32DASM, but now I am working on cracking my first few apps for the PocketPC. I was wondering if any of you guys know of a nice binary differencing tool? I mean, something that will show me "blocks" of bytes that are equal/not equal between two different files. I have purchased and installed Insaniquarium 1.09 for PPC/ARM and also downloaded a pre-cracked executable (same version) for comparison. Any ideas on some diff tools?

Thanks,
Netsniper

Try hexworkshop. It has a build-in compare function that's very usefull..

regards

I use wincommander (now totalcommander), it has nice compare function.
Never needed anything else.
Regards,
least

Thanks for replies. I didn't know Total Commander had diff capabilities. It's a great app, so I'll be using it more frequently now. I downloaded a newer demo of HexWorkshop as well. I have used it before (long time ago) as a simple hex editor, but I'll try it again for the diff features. Thanks again...

There's also a nice dos executable called "fc.exe". Use it like this: fc /b file1 file2.

Yes!!! DOS program is the best, can't believe I never saw this before. Thanks...

Try Beyond Compare with HexView Plugin. I think it's the best to compare hex and ascii files.

KSA