How to edit the .bin files in american.img?

[Shotgun]

Hey guys!

Although I'm new here, my first post comes with a question about modding Bully: SE on pc. Since I'm a Grand Theft Auto fan myself, I've managed to open up the american.img file with a simple IMG editor, but the thing I need next is some advice on editing the .bin files, since as far as I know, these are unique to the game engine.

Tried using google to find something useful, but no success. Every help would be appreciated!

P.S.: And one more question: Are there any character set files for the game? If yes, which, and where are they?

On a side note: Hex editing isn't okay for me, because my language has pretty long expressions/words, compared to other languages (Hungarian... meh.). But if there's no other way, then I'm doomed to do it that way. :/

[MadmaN]

Welcome to the forum.

Anyways.....hex editing is unfortunately the only way you will be able to edit the .bin files. I have no idea period how those are generated so until someone stumbles on a way to generate new ones from scratch or from some kind of template for changing language....etc then the only way is to edit via hex.

Hex will limit you if you are intending on editing the language files because you can only replace the ascii strings inside the file with the same length....for example...if what you want to change is the word hello, then you have to keep it at the exact same length of characters and not add any becasue then you will corrupt the file.

[Shotgun]

Thanks to a friend of mine, I've got my hands on a really useful tool, which decompiles the files as .txt files. I'll post a link for the tool, along with it a tutorial, on how to use it properly.