learn to unpack edit and repack exe file

Did manage to find readable files in Mirror’s Edge (2009) but did not extract them first. Have already bought TextCrawler 3 and used it to find and replace a word in Prey, in Terminator and in Remnant, but the files are just full of strange symbols and letters, and some files are in red, so I can’t do anything with them. Are these processes the same for all pc games based on Unreal, Unity, CryEngine and/or LUA? Can one use Powershell to extract any type of text files that a game might use? Or can I buy software that makes this process easier? I will appreciate it if someone can please explain the excration and compression processes which are necessary for modding text files in general. So thank you very much for this nice introduction to modding. But now that I got a taste of modding, and can see with my own eyes that it works, I will spend time on learning all that is required to mod other things in GD (and many other games). It was easy to change the name of an NPC when following the instructions here, but it would have taken a long time for me to figure out on my own which files I had to change, where to find them and realize that I had to use the Powershell too. It also appears, I guess, that the most time-consuming challenge when modding is to know the entire file system/structure of a game so that you can locate the exact files you want to change.

I want to learn more! Looks like I have found a new hobby. This is very cool I play Tales of Tribute, a card game in ESO, but actually had more fun making my first modification of a real official game.

I have now tried to change one of the NPC names, and it worked! Found a name listed twice in the file, changed both, and now the name is also changed in the map when the cursor hovers above the blue-ish dot on the map.

Learn to unpack edit and repack exe file