IT WORKS WHEN THE HEADER EXPANDS NOW YAYAYYAYAYAYYAYAYYAYAYAY

I’m gonna be honest, the problem might just have been that my testing package was corrupted. I was debugging my deserialization logic, which I thought might have some parsing issue near the header extraction, and noticed that once the encrypted region deserializer’s Cursor reached the end of the region, it was actually FARTHER than the package summary’s total_header_size - by 6 bytes! That’s pretty bad, and I don’t know how something like that even happened. Anyways, I repaired the game and brought over the shiny new upk and… it worked.

I’m pretty sure that I only accidentally did this while tidying up my workspace a few hours ago, but if this has genuinely been the thing holding me back for the past few days -

I also finally made the poc code public, at https://github.com/kalilamodow/rl-upk-testing/