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by Everdred2dx 237 days ago
I had a ton of fun using Kaitai to write an unpacking script for a video game's proprietary pack file format. Super cool project.

I did NOT have fun trying to use Kaitai to pack the files back together. Not sure if this has improved at all but a year or so ago you had to build dependencies yourself and the process was so cumbersome it ended up being easier to just write imperative code to do it myself.

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It hasn't improved that much, you need to know the final size and fill all attributes, there are no defaults, at least in Python.