I genuinely take the baroque comment as a complement. There's many paths to a solution and this was a fun one that ended up working for me. Thanks for the poin

I genuinely take the baroque comment as a complement. There's many paths to a solution and this was a fun one that ended up working for me. Thanks for the pointers for those programs. Someone else pointed out Kaitai Struct could help me do the hex editing which I'm planning on taking a look at later