""" Try to recover the original image from screen.png. Strategy 1: Decode as UTF-16 LE, then encode back to bytes via UTF-16 LE. This should give us the raw bytes without the BOM. Strategy 2: Try to interpret as raw pixel data (e.g. RGBA raw dump). Strategy 3: Check if the decoded text contains base64 encoded image data. """ import sys import re path = r"D:\Yuzu-GCA\screen.png" with open(path, 'rb') as f: raw = f.read() # Decode as UTF-16 LE (with BOM automatically handled by Python) text = raw.decode('utf-16-le') # Strategy 1: Re-encode as UTF-16 LE to get bytes reencoded = text.encode('utf-16-le') print(f"Re-encoded size: {len(reencoded)} bytes") # Check if it's a valid PNG after removing BOM # Original raw starts with ff fe, so raw[2:] should equal reencoded print(f"Original raw[2:] == reencoded: {raw[2:] == reencoded}") # Now, what if the original binary PNG was processed wrong? # Let's look at the first few bytes of reencoded print(f"First 20 bytes of reencoded: {reencoded[:20].hex(' ')}") print(f"First 20 bytes of raw (no BOM): {raw[2:22].hex(' ')}") # The reencoded bytes should NOT be a valid PNG (since they start with RXNG etc.) # But maybe the original PNG bytes were: each char's ord() is two PNG bytes? # For ASCII chars like 'I', ord('I')=0x49, but 'I' in UTF-16LE is 49 00 # So each char gives us: low_byte = ord(c) & 0xFF, high_byte = (ord(c) >> 8) & 0xFF # If the original PNG had 49 00 at some point, that would become 'I' in UTF-16LE text # Let's try: take each char, extract its two bytes # For chars in BMP: char -> code point -> 2 bytes bytes_from_chars = bytearray() for ch in text: cp = ord(ch) if cp <= 0xFFFF: bytes_from_chars.append(cp & 0xFF) bytes_from_chars.append((cp >> 8) & 0xFF) else: # Surrogate pair - skip for now pass print(f"\nBytes from chars (first 20): {bytes(bytes_from_chars[:20]).hex(' ')}") # Check if this is a valid PNG if bytes_from_chars[:8] == b'\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n': print("SUCCESS: This is a valid PNG!") # Write the recovered PNG with open(r"D:\Yuzu-GCA\screen_recovered.png", 'wb') as f: f.write(bytes_from_chars) print("Recovered PNG written to screen_recovered.png") else: print(f"Not a PNG. First 8 bytes: {bytes(bytes_from_chars[:8]).hex(' ')}") # Check what it starts with print(f"As text: {bytes(bytes_from_chars[:8])}") # Strategy 2: Maybe the text contains base64? # Search for base64 patterns b64_pattern = r'[A-Za-z0-9+/=]{50,}' b64_matches = re.findall(b64_pattern, text) print(f"\nBase64-like strings found: {len(b64_matches)}") for m in b64_matches[:3]: print(f" {m[:80]}...")