The inspired anarchical implementer, Art, has just cooked up a truly interesting piece of ‘brew that’s designed from the top down to allow y’all to find and edit monochrome and 256-color bitmaps that are lurking within firmware files. Unlike older, but similar, homebrew applications, Bitmap Hunter does allow you to make changes to the images directly.

Quick lesson, in case you’re just tuning in: A bitmap is a type of image file format that’s used to store images with a specific color depth in a lossless format; bitmaps are quite close to raw image data, although they generally include header information that’s relevant to file readers. Unlike vector images, bitmaps (which are forms of raster images, the  functional opposite of a vector image) cannot scale to an arbitrary resolution without a significant and noticeable loss of quality (they’ll just turn into unrecognizable patches of blocks).

This is absolutely a clutch piece of code, and recommend that any of you who’s got a hankering for tinkering grab the download package right here and check it out. We offer up our sincere thanks and congratulations to Art, without whom we’d probably never muster up the brazen circuitry to discover and annihilate images to serve our own dubious ends.

Download Bitmap Hunter v3