Farmville doesn't use the gzip obfuscation anymore

We blogged about itemx.xml.gz and gameSettings.xml.gz obfuscation of the Farmville game. Now they removed the obfuscation, and you get the XML Files z-compressed without the any header you have to remove.

If you want to use python, update the decompress.py with the code below.

import zlib
import urllib
import sys

def main():
  file = urllib.urlopen(sys.argv[1]).read()
  print zlib.decompress(file)

if __name__=="__main__":
  main()

You can download here the windows binary for .xml.gz decompression and here the python file.


Compression: compress.py and compress.exe

import zlib
import urllib
import sys

def main():
  file = open(sys.argv[1], 'r').read()
  output = open(sys.argv[1]+'.gz', 'w')
  output.write(zlib.compress(file))
  output.close()

if __name__=="__main__":
  main()

UPDATE:
We also recompiled the fvinternals cheat tool.