Erosion v2

posted in Utility Release by narvick on Jul 5th, 2003

It's been almost 3 years since the last update to Erosion, a corruption utility. Here's a summary of what's going on written by the author:
    Erosion, a file corruption utility useful for ROM and Savestate hackers, was recently updated to version 2. Erosion v.2 is a program that will corrupt certain parts of a file. The results can be interesting, especially if you use the right kind of file. It's mainly intended to find the ranges of data within a file that contain the specific data you're seeking. For example, it can be used to find level layouts in a ROM Dump, character information in a save state, etc. Here are the features: -Choose between single byte and long corruption. -Choose a starting and ending offset for more controlled corrupting. -Choose a replacement value, either set or random. -Ability to do specific replacements. For example, as you corrupt the file, if you only want bytes with the value "35" corrupted, then it will only corrupt the bytes containing the value 35. This is very useful for savestate hacking. -Ability to jump by "powers". You can set this value to 1000 and it will only corrupt every 1000 bytes (1 KB), set to 10 and it corrupts every 10 bytes. -Added option to backup the file. -Option to log the data that has been corrupted and save that information to a text file. Probably one of the more powerful corruption tools out there. The downside is it was written in VB, so it's a little slower than the rest.
Get it at the General Utilities page!
Thanks to the author, Syizm, for the news!