.dat Files

[Hawk U-375]

Hey guys quick question....

What is the "Best" software to open and Edit .dat files......
I tried "notepad"....didn't work. I have Windows 7 (Home Version)....
Any help is much appreciated.......

[Venatore]

Hang on mate, I'll upload a little thingy for ya.

[Venatore]

two options, I prefer the second link myself. It's a awesome little utility that is very well laid out especially created for SHIII, it unpacks all the Dat files contained within SHIII and creates it's own folder to store them in.

http://www.filefront.com/14846731/Dat-Extractor.rar/

http://www.filefront.com/14985481/SHIII-Unpacker.rar/

I hope it's what your looking for.

[SquareSteelBar]

Hey guys quick question....

What is the "Best" software to open and Edit .dat files......
I tried "notepad"....didn't work. I have Windows 7 (Home Version)....
Any help is much appreciated.......Hi Hawk,

the best is S3D (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=119571) at time...

Cheers,
SquareSteelBar ;)

Edit:
Oooops - missed that you've Win7. Maybe it will not work on this OS, dunno :hmmm:

[Anvart]

Yes, SquareSteelBar is right ... now the best program is S3D (i don't speak about HexEditor :D)...
I think S3D works in Win7 ... look:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=119571&page=46
#1149

[SeaWolf U-57]

Yes it works fine with Windows 7 :salute:

[evan82]

Hey guys quick question....

What is the "Best" software to open and Edit .dat files......
I tried "notepad"....didn't work. I have Windows 7 (Home Version)....
Any help is much appreciated.......

Use S3D - "Silent3Ditor" mate. This is the best program at this time if You know nothing about hex editing. It has many usefull options:yeah:

[Hawk U-375]

Thanks Guys!.....I will check them all out.....:up:

[skwasjer]

As already mentioned, it is fully compatible with Win7 :up: