kbinxml

An encoder/decoder for Konami's binary XML format, used in some of their games.

Setup:

pip install kbinxml

You can use kbinxml from the commandline to convert files.

Python usage:

In [1]: from kbinxml import KBinXML
In [2]: text = KBinXML('<?xml version="1.0"?><root __type="str">Hello, world!</root>')
In [3]: text.to_binary()
Out[4]: b'\xa0B\x80\x7f\x00\x00\x00\x08\x0b\x04\xdfM9\xfe\xff\x00\x00\x00\x00\x14\x00\x00\x00\x0eHello, world!\x00\x00\x00'

In [5]: bin = KBinXML(Out[4])
In [6]: bin.to_text()
Out[7]: u'<?xml version=\'1.0\' encoding=\'UTF-8\'?>\n<root __type="str">Hello, world!</root>\n'