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I've been trying to get the most authentic Fallout experience; and one of the things I remember hearing about is changing the string "drug" to "chem" in Fallout and Fallout 2. I'd like to change the strings back, but I don't know how to modify game data myself (ideally with a few tools as possible).

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You could open up the game's data files in a hex editor and change the text from "chem" to "drug" because they're both four characters, that should do the trick.

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Unfortunately the files are not in any format I'm familiar with. The file utility on Ubuntu can't find a signature for the file. I'm given to understand that there is some magic file format in play. – Tyler Szabo Aug 5 '10 at 21:57
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I think that what McKay intended, was to open the binary file in a hex editor. These types of editors give insight into mysterious binary files by, among various tricks, revealing strings hidden within them. – Paul Lammertsma Aug 5 '10 at 23:58
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I ran strings on it to no avail; but I have good news I tripped across an embarrassingly good document: falloutmods.wikia.com/wiki/DAT_file_format – Tyler Szabo Aug 6 '10 at 0:24

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