How to encrypt / obfuscate your Ren'Py archive RPA files to prevent common programs from opening them

[uyjulian]

Here are some simple steps to prevent the current version of common archive unpackers like GARbro, unrpa, rpatool, arc_unpacker, etc… from opening your game's archives.
1. In the Ren'Py SDK directory, open the following files using a text editor such as "Atom", "Editra", or "jEdit": "launcher/game/archiver.rpy" and "renpy/loader.py"
2. Find the following string (using "Find" (Ctrl-F)): "RPA-3.0 " (It's okay if there is anything after it)
3. Replace the string with any 8-byte string.
You can use printable ASCII characters (this is good). Examples:
"ABCDEFGH"
"12345678"
"ASDFGHJK"
"!@#$%^&*"
You can also use non-printable characters (this is good). Examples:
"\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08"
"\x0A\x0B\x0C\x0D\x0E\x0F\x10\x11"
Using the following headers will cause existing common archive unpackers to attempt to parse the file, but fail (this is good):
"ZiX-12A "
"ZiX-12B "
"RPA-2.0 "
"ALT-1.0 "
"\x58\x50\x33\x0d\x0a\x20\x0a\x1a"
Use only 7-bit ASCII characters. The following is not acceptable (this is bad):
"åéêîíøπ¬"
"ホゲホゲホゲホゲ"
The following headers will not prevent unpacking with the current version of common archive unpackers, so avoid these (this is bad):
"RPA-3.0 "
"RPA-3.2 "
"RPA-4.0 "
Before:

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padding = b"RPA-3.0 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX\n"
self.f.write(b"RPA-3.0 %016x %08x\n" % (indexoff, self.key))
if l.startswith(b"RPA-3.0 "):

After:

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padding = b"12345678XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX\n"
self.f.write(b"12345678%016x %08x\n" % (indexoff, self.key))
if l.startswith(b"12345678"):

where "12345678" is your own string.
After you are done making your changes, save both files, then close them.
4. Create distributions with the Ren'Py Launcher.
You can now distribute your game with the Ren'Py Launcher. The archives created in the distribution will (if you didn't use one of the "bad" strings above) not be openable in the current version of common archive unpackers like GARbro, unrpa, rpatool, arc_unpacker, etc…

This should be good enough to stop CG distributors or store reviewers from unpacking your game on the first day of release (or even before that).

[demwilson]

I didn't know this was a problem, but it makes sense.
Thanks for sharing your solution!

[Andredron]

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/file_pyt ... list_files



Inside the game itself, renpy.list_files will give you all the files in the game, renpy.file will return a file object, at least a physical one, even from an rpa, along the renpaev path. You read data from it, create a file on disk, and write data from a file object there.

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from os import (
..path,
..makedirs
)
output_folder = u"
destination folder address"
for myfile in renpy.list_files():
..out_file = path.abspath(path.join(output_folder, myfile))
.._dirname = path.dirname(out_file)
..if not path.isdir(_dirname):
....makedirs(_dirname)
..chunk = b""
..with renpy.file(myfile) as _readfile:
....with open(out_file, "wb") as _writefile:
......while True:
........chunk = _readfile.read((2 ** 10))
........if not chunk:
..........break
........_writefile.write(chunk)

Something like this and no protection from you


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