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I used to be from the romhacking community back in the 2000s and due to usage of Windows, open source/foss wasn't even known to most people. The culture of Windows programmers is way more focused on freeware/binaries.

Still waiting to this day for FuSoYa to release the source code of Lunar Magic.

About a central database of binary parsers, I've been wanting this for ages too. The closest I ever found was augeas, but that's for configuration files.

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> About a central database of binary parsers, I've been wanting this for ages too. The closest I ever found was augeas, but that's for configuration files.

I'm working on something, that is a open template format for binary file formats. It is usable today as a universal file extractor, with some bugs and limitations.

Check it out at https://github.com/martinlindhe/feng

Yeah that’s a mysterious one. Such an incredible achievement, and it enabled so, so much creativity, and free (as in beer) to all as far as I know. I hope FuSoYa does open source it someday.

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