Comment by Dathuil

Aside from dipping my foot into games with Godot I've pulled back an old project to solve a me problem. A few years ago I wrote a tool to tell you what weapons in Dark Souls 1 you are missing to get the Knights Honour achievement on steam.

Part of this required that I manually parse a binary save file and extract the information. This was done through lots of trial and error and looking at other java implementations.

What I would have prefered is some sort of descriptor language that lets me generate the parser and interfaces for everything so I just drop the binary stream into a parse function and get my typed object back.

I'm working on creating a TypeSpec Library and Emitter for this so that you can describe everything in Typespec as to where and what is in the file and have it parse.