###################################################################### How to retrieve the zip password from the Visual Patch patches 0.1 by Luigi Auriemma e-mail: aluigi@autistici.org web: aluigi.org ###################################################################### Visual Patch (http://www.indigorose.com/products/visual-patch/) is a program for creating patches (vpatch.exe), for example for upgrading the version of a program or game to a newer one. The patch is nothing else than a ZIP archive containing various files with the "dif" extension that can be a difference file (recognized by the VISPATCH header at the beginning) or a full file. All these files are protected by password except one called _ir_vp2_patchbindata.dat that contains various informations included the password used for the other files. Retrieving the password is very simple: - open _ir_vp2_patchbindata.dat with a text editor (notepad is ok) - search the string "Check for administrative privileges" (without quotes) - the password is that uid string of the format XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX located a couple of lines before the searched string The following example comes from the patch for Burnout Paradise where the password is 8B0FFA6C-CF99-45F7-BA97-E0AB5C153FAD: New Project...Copyright 2009 ....3.0.3.0.3.0.3.0$8B0FFA6C-CF99-45F7-BA97-E0AB5C153FAD..... C:\vp_cache....´.................ׂ......Global Functions.ׂ..... On Startup˙..-------------------------------------------------------------- -- Check for administrative privileges or the following where it's 4C87FE81-ECBF-4779-93C2-21BBDBE39FBA: Drawing Board.New Project...Copyright 2009 ....3.0.2.0.3.0.2.0$4C87FE81-ECBF-4779-93C2-21BBDBE39FBA....RC:\Docume... On Startup˙i.-------------------------------------------------------------- -- Check for administrative privileges -------------------------------------------------------------- Instead the following one is an example patcher I created with version 3.5.1.0, password 061F2CD6-DB94-4F1E-8F6A-1DE2C4E5CD7C: New Project .Copyright 2010 .3.5.1.0.3.5.1.0$061F2CD6-DB94-4F1E-8F6A-1DE2C4E5CD7C W C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Visual Patch Projects\cache\shared. ´ . . <€. .Global Functions <€. On Startup˙<.-------------------------------------------------------------- -- Check for administrative privileges ######################################################################