I have a wallet I am willing to donate someone to help me walk through something I am self teaching linux and all this stuff since I got into crypto.. I am not totally ignorant to this stuff but for some reason every time I try a solution i get to a point where i get stuck or there is a error.. Like finding the private keys in hex editor i searched for the number portion to find the pvtkey right after and I dont know what is the pvt key and what to do next as i get error messages so I am missing something.. Any help would be paid for.
What exactly are you attempting to do? recover coins from a corrupted wallet.dat?
PyWallet can be made to work with newer wallet.dat files... it just needs
a couple of minor edits to force it to ignore the new metadata in more recent wallet.dat files and run without error and it will dump your private keys. Note that other features of PyWallet still probably won't work properly (like adding, merging etc)
If you don't want to try and edit yourself... I've made the edits and put it on pastebin here:
https://pastebin.com/y8p8GZgPLet me know if you want any help.