Hi. I have some issues with reovering password for ZIP file (data.pak) from game Lone Water: Prologue.
Standard methods doesn't seem to work unfortunately.

Game is available for free at itch.io
https://ragingmages.itch.io/lone-water-prologue

If you'll get the password, please share a method how you did it. 😉 Thanks.

The game was built with Leadwerks, and there is no single master password for the archive. The engine generates the password separately for each entry using its filename, uncompressed size, and a fixed mask stored in the executable.

I wrote a bit more about it on my blog if you’re interested. 👍

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Put the Python script in the same folder as data.pak, then run it. The extracted files will show up in a new data_extracted folder alongside them.

lone_water_data_pak_extract.py

Hi. Thanks. I read the blog article and it was pretty interesting. Good job with all the findings.


If you want to make your script more generic in the future, I have a long list of Leadwerks password-protected games which you can test your script on and adjust if needed :D

Anesthetic (PC)

Bladequest (PC/Steam)

Crazy Auto Present Dash (PC)

Crazy Scorpion (PC)

d4Shmup (PC)

Despair of Ordinary Man (PC)

Dissension (PC)

Dread Loop (PC)

Dungeon Skunk (PC)

Dwarf Beard (PC)

FPS Game Demo (PC)

FotoMuseo 3D (PC/Steam)

Grimlight (PC)

Halloween Pumpkin Run (PC)

Hanks Funhouse (PC)

Hause in the Hollow (PC)

J-TRAIN (PC)

Last One Standing Wins (PC)

Little Dagon (PC)

LockDown (PC)

Lone Water: Prologue (PC)

Next Monday (PC)

Nightmare (PC)

Oblique (PC)

One More Day (PC)

Present Hunt (PC)

Realm of the lamb (PC)

Rogue Snowboarding (PC)

Run Jump Climb (PC)

Science (PC)

Sentinal Defect (PC)

Sewer Survival (PC)

SIEGE (PC/Steam)

Slafstraf 2 (PC)

Snow Rider (PC)

Sot Kaal (PC)

Sound Game (PC)

The Borrower (PC)

The Garden (PC)

The Mower (PC)

Twisted Minds Demo (PC)

Vectronic Demo (PC)

White Out (PC)

Wolf Tale (PC)

Zelrio (PC)

Zombiezi (PC)

Also fun fact - some passwords in older engine versions are stored as plaintext in game executable xd

Some examples:
Leadwerks Engine - Furious Frank Demo (PC)
Leadwerks Engine - Last Chapter (PC)
Leadwerks Engine - LE2 qBoids (PC)
Leadwerks Engine - Swords and Skellies (PC)

I checked a few other titles and found the same build mask in each one:

• Bladequest

• Anesthetic

• Dissension

• Resonant Dusk

• Concealment

22 80 3E 61 22 4B 54 20
54 15 25 08 E3 10 A9 24
16 AE 8A BF A3 34 0A 30
B3 80 DB 8F 62 1C B1 8E

At this point, it looks like the same build mask is reused across other titles as well. 😋