Ren'Py The Headmaster [v0.17.1 Beta] [Altos and Herdone]

[torpedogoat]

Except that MOST people who extract it with 7Zip, do NOT have that problem, only a few.

Yes, so I guess the problem is either some people using an old version of 7-Zip and not being aware of the fact, or some people having unusual settings for some reason.

The current version of 7-Zip is 24.09. Any version of 7-Zip that is older than that, even including 24.07, likely contains at least one known serious vulnerability and should be updated as soon as possible. Come to think of it, someone could be maliciously uploading an old version of 7-Zip to popular archives, pretending it's 24.09. (This is intentionally not a precise description of how that would work.)

 

[c3p0]

Yes, so I guess the problem is either some people using an old version of 7-Zip and not being aware of the fact, or some people having unusual settings for some reason.

The current version of 7-Zip is 24.09. Any version of 7-Zip that is older than that, even including 24.07, likely contains at least one known serious vulnerability and should be updated as soon as possible. Come to think of it, someone could be maliciously uploading an old version of 7-Zip to popular archives, pretending it's 24.09. (This is intentionally not a precise description of how that would work.)

So, what shall I do? I have this header warning, yet I din't change the 7zip setting to somethings strange nor is my 7zip version old, as it is 24.09.

 

[motseer]

So, what shall I do? I have this header warning, yet I din't change the 7zip setting to somethings strange nor is my 7zip version old, as it is 24.09.

Dunno if it's the correct thing to do, but as long as it unzips, I ignore header warnings. I think headers really only matter when you have multiple zip files that are supposed to merge as they unzip.

 

[ccxvidonaferens]

So, what shall I do? I have this header warning, yet I din't change the 7zip setting to somethings strange nor is my 7zip version old, as it is 24.09.

I presume you've tried not just here but itch and their patreon as well. It should be free at both of those and if I remember correctly you shouldn't even need to have an account for patreon to access it.

 

[TheDevian]

Yes, so I guess the problem is either some people using an old version of 7-Zip and not being aware of the fact, or some people having unusual settings for some reason.

The current version of 7-Zip is 24.09. Any version of 7-Zip that is older than that, even including 24.07, likely contains at least one known serious vulnerability and should be updated as soon as possible. Come to think of it, someone could be maliciously uploading an old version of 7-Zip to popular archives, pretending it's 24.09. (This is intentionally not a precise description of how that would work.)

Yeah, I had them update and that also didn't help. Others have tried WinRAR as well with no luck.
My version is about 6months old, and works fine.
Here is that version if anyone who is having that problem wants to try it.

 

[torpedogoat]

So, what shall I do? I have this header warning, yet I din't change the 7zip setting to somethings strange nor is my 7zip version old, as it is 24.09.

Thanks for the information. Could you please post the complete text of the warning? Maybe that helps me get closer to an explanation.

For the moment I am guessing it is something similar to

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. The discussion a that bug report seems to indicate that 7-Zip is intentionally very strict in its interpretation of compression standards, hoping to bully the developers of other software to fix their bugs if they cause problems extracting with 7-Zip.

 

[c3p0]

Thanks for the information. Could you please post the complete text of the warning? Maybe that helps me get closer to an explanation.

 

[torpedogoat]

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Could it be that all affected users are using Windows with Japanese or Korean settings? I just learned that the Windows path separator \ (backslash) is replaced by ¥ (Yen) for these versions. For Westerners this is totally unexpected, so I can easily see it cause bugs in a variety of ways.

Background:

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PS: Apparently the replacement was normally done on the font level as of 2005, but who knows what they changed since then.

 

[TheDevian]

Could it be that all affected users are using Windows with Japanese or Korean settings? I just learned that the Windows path separator \ (backslash) is replaced by ¥ (Yen) for these versions. For Westerners this is totally unexpected, so I can easily see it cause bugs in a variety of ways.

Background:

You must be registered to see the links

PS: Apparently the replacement was normally done on the font level as of 2005, but who knows what they changed since then.

That is an interesting thought. I will try to look into that when I get more reports.

 

[c3p0]

Could it be that all affected users are using Windows with Japanese or Korean settings? I just learned that the Windows path separator \ (backslash) is replaced by ¥ (Yen) for these versions. For Westerners this is totally unexpected, so I can easily see it cause bugs in a variety of ways.

Background:

You must be registered to see the links

PS: Apparently the replacement was normally done on the font level as of 2005, but who knows what they changed since then.

Tried it with setting to German local setting and getting same results.

 

[TheDevian]

Tried it with setting to German local setting and getting same results.

Well, it was worth a shot.

Would it be a pain to try in English?

 

[torpedogoat]

Well, it was worth a shot.

Would it be a pain to try in English?

Personally I am not at all optimistic that that makes a difference. A ton of people use various other 'normal' locales. If that was a problem, there would be more complaints.

(Never mind. See PS.)
But I would like to hear from a handful of other users that fall into one of these categories:

• Do you have this problem with the official (not compressed) release of The Headmaster and 7-Zip? If so, what is your operating system and which language have you set it to?
• Are you using a Japanese or Korean version of Windows? If so, it would be great if you could check if you can reproduce this problem and report the result here.

PS: Meanwhile I have downloaded the original ZIP file for PC from itch. As I do not have Windows, I am somewhat limited in what I can do to diagnose a problem that occurs on some Windows computers, but I will report here what I find. Here is one thing:

Running zip -v on the file, I get
zip warning: needs unzip 4.5 on system type 0: TheHeadmaster-0.16.4.3public-pc/game/images.rpa

This is probably just related to the size of that file (5 GB). Presumably zip 4.5 introduced an extension for large files. I tried the same on various compressed ZIP files of Ren'Py games I downloaded recently. None of them had that warning. Then I tried a compressed E*e*num, and got the same warning for all files. Based on all this, I think this warning is probably unrelated.

Then I downloaded a command line version of the latest 7-Zip and ran 7zzs -t on the file. Here is the full result:

7-Zip (z) 24.09 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2024 Igor Pavlov : 2024-11-28
64-bit locale=en_US.UTF-8 Threads:16 OPEN_MAX:1024, ASM

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 8072505099 bytes (7699 MiB)

Testing archive: the-headmaster-win.zip

WARNINGS:
Headers Error

--
Path = the-headmaster-win.zip
Type = zip
WARNINGS:
Headers Error
Physical Size = 8072505099
64-bit = +
Characteristics = Zip64

Everything is Ok

Archives with Warnings: 1

Warnings: 1
Folders: 124
Files: 1396
Size: 8168598919
Compressed: 8072505099

So I have basically reproduced the problem using the latest official (statically compiled) 7-Zip binary on Linux with a US locale.

For comparison I also added some random data at the end of a ZIP file that does not produce warnings. Instead of "Headers Error" I got "There are data after the end of archive", which seems a lot more informative.

 

[TheDevian]

They are punishing Liz so hard (after streaking) that she is clipping into the desk! (her shoulders are rotated too far).

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Also, I did not get the +1 Horniness it said I was supposed to get after this during the public part. I was at 31 before and after.

 

[SuperMaxo]

They are punishing Liz so hard (after streaking) that she is clipping into the desk! (her shoulders are rotated too far).

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Also, I did not get the +1 Horniness it said I was supposed to get after this during the public part. I was at 31 before and after.

There is a cap on horniness in the game; it’s possible you reached it

 

[Shogi boi]

will the twin ever be able to be punished in the afternoon or never? i kinda like the twin design....

 

[dewayne4478]

will the twin ever be able to be punished in the afternoon or never? i kinda like the twin design....

probably at some point. Cann't remember if their working on that as part of the update or not. If i remember I could go back and look

 

[torpedogoat]

Finally there is real progress on the "Headers Error" in the official ZIP file that 7-Zip complains about. The Ada implementation of ZIP has excellent diagnostics. As I didn't want to compile an Ada program, I downloaded the latest available binary distribution for Windows from

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and ran the program in the Windows emulator. Here is the result:

$ wine unzipada.exe -t the-headmaster-win.zip
UnZipAda * minimal standalone unzipping tool
Demo for the Zip-Ada library, by G. de Montmollin
Library version 56 dated 17-Jan-2020
URL:

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Testing archive the-headmaster-win.zip

raised ZIP.ARCHIVE_CORRUPTED : Bad (or no) end-of-central-directory
[unzipada.exe]
0x47ad6d
[unzipada.exe]
0x472e55
[unzipada.exe]
0x45a2e3
[unzipada.exe]
0x481058
[unzipada.exe]
0x4013db
[C:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll]
0x7BBB8AFE at ???
[C:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll]
0x7BD644F1 at ???
[C:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll]
0x7BD659F3 at ???

So we now have two independent programs agreeing that the ZIP file is defective. I think it's time to hand this over to the developer. Only they can know what tool they use to create their ZIP files, and forward the bug report to that tool's author -- or just use a different tool.

Is someone in contact with Altus and Herdone?

 

[TheDevian]

There is a cap on horniness in the game; it’s possible you reached it

I have on everything else, but when things happen for those stats it gives me the points and then removes them.
But it feels as though I should not do that event yet then, if the point is just going to be wasted.

Finally there is real progress on the "Headers Error" in the official ZIP file that 7-Zip complains about. The Ada implementation of ZIP has excellent diagnostics. As I didn't want to compile an Ada program, I downloaded the latest available binary distribution for Windows from

You must be registered to see the links

and ran the program in the Windows emulator. Here is the result:

$ wine unzipada.exe -t the-headmaster-win.zip
UnZipAda * minimal standalone unzipping tool
Demo for the Zip-Ada library, by G. de Montmollin
Library version 56 dated 17-Jan-2020
URL:

You must be registered to see the links

Testing archive the-headmaster-win.zip

raised ZIP.ARCHIVE_CORRUPTED : Bad (or no) end-of-central-directory
[unzipada.exe]
0x47ad6d
[unzipada.exe]
0x472e55
[unzipada.exe]
0x45a2e3
[unzipada.exe]
0x481058
[unzipada.exe]
0x4013db
[C:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll]
0x7BBB8AFE at ???
[C:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll]
0x7BD644F1 at ???
[C:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll]
0x7BD659F3 at ???

So we now have two independent programs agreeing that the ZIP file is defective. I think it's time to hand this over to the developer. Only they can know what tool they use to create their ZIP files, and forward the bug report to that tool's author -- or just use a different tool.

Is someone in contact with Altus and Herdone?

And we had dozens confirming that it's fine.

 

[c3p0]

Is someone in contact with Altus and Herdone?

You mean someone do something like this?
https://f95zone.to/threads/the-headmaster-mykocks-manor-ch-3-altos-and-herdone.23470/post-16632664

 

[SuperMaxo]

Finally there is real progress on the "Headers Error" in the official ZIP file that 7-Zip complains about. The Ada implementation of ZIP has excellent diagnostics. As I didn't want to compile an Ada program, I downloaded the latest available binary distribution for Windows from

You must be registered to see the links

and ran the program in the Windows emulator. Here is the result:

$ wine unzipada.exe -t the-headmaster-win.zip
UnZipAda * minimal standalone unzipping tool
Demo for the Zip-Ada library, by G. de Montmollin
Library version 56 dated 17-Jan-2020
URL:

You must be registered to see the links

Testing archive the-headmaster-win.zip

raised ZIP.ARCHIVE_CORRUPTED : Bad (or no) end-of-central-directory
[unzipada.exe]
0x47ad6d
[unzipada.exe]
0x472e55
[unzipada.exe]
0x45a2e3
[unzipada.exe]
0x481058
[unzipada.exe]
0x4013db
[C:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll]
0x7BBB8AFE at ???
[C:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll]
0x7BD644F1 at ???
[C:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll]
0x7BD659F3 at ???

So we now have two independent programs agreeing that the ZIP file is defective. I think it's time to hand this over to the developer. Only they can know what tool they use to create their ZIP files, and forward the bug report to that tool's author -- or just use a different tool.

Is someone in contact with Altus and Herdone?

Discord would be best, I believe, for sharing this