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What and why

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night uses a short Unreal PAK v8 footer with four compression method slots and a one-byte compression method field in each entry. The reader missed that footer and assumed legacy PAKs stored their shaders inline.

Recognize the short footer, account for the smaller entry header, and route PAKs that contain a shader archive through archive preparation. Decode the v1 archive’s Zlib-compressed LSLG records into the existing v2 format.

Checked

• All 56 Unreal parser tests passed, including a synthetic short v8 PAK with stored and compressed entries, a v1 shader archive, and truncated input.
• The normal archive preparation path decoded 33,767 shader records across two Bloodstained archives and produced zero Oodle jobs.
• git diff --check passed. Gameplay and broader game regressions were not run.

Docs

• No game files, keys or data extracted from a game in the change or the attachments.