Lao Zheng Secret Door code? - The Dig

[Krigsbjorn]

I dont have the 5 strength requiered to open the Lao Zhengs door i the quest The Dig, Anyone know the code? Really thought it was 1888

[Geralt]

If anyone is ever stuck anywhere in the game, most (NOT ALL) of the time
you can pretty much find the key code for any door with a method I came up with.
Honestly it's pretty easy to find most things in the game just by playing, but still
if you just don't want to waste your time doing it the right way, here's the evil way:

**ANYWAY THIS IS WINDOWS ONLY TUTORIAL SO IGNORE IF USING OTHER OS
PLEASE USE ADAPTING COMMANDS IF YOU KNOW YOUR WAY AROUND YOUR OS**

It's fascinating how reliable this works. And it's really not that difficult.
Where I say type in, it's best to just select it all and copy and paste, and
then hit enter. Some requires a bit of typing though and input.

First off, you need a bit of text from the conversation where the keypad
is stored in. For example this whole topic was on the museum run with
the two most valuable items hidden behind the bookshelf with the locked
code. To get manually with my method do this:

Take a screenshot somewhere in the keypad in the museum
room where the computer with the shelf control is. You can look at some
of the data on the computer, that would work, or just basically anything
readable on it when you interact with the computer. Even some of the
options you have on the menu. This all is stored in a convo.bytes file.
The problem is there are a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of them and you don't know where to start.

Anyway, say you took a screenshot and your screenshot showed the keypad with the text:
[This sub-menu is locked with a secured password.]

Three things you have to be very sure about:
- CASE SENSITIVE
- NO TYPOS
- ALL PERIODS, DASHES, ETC. ARE EXACT

Now ignore those damn brackets. Seriously. The game fills them in. [] I mean. OK.
SO we are going to take this phrase, and just knowing this and my little trick we'll get tennyson
You can do this with ALMOST every other keypad. Some are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and literally require you to have in game items to have them activated, or just contain links to Reference Tags, but that's VERY FEW.

PHRASE: This sub-menu is locked with a secured password.

As long as you are able to zoom in on that screen shot and retype that, or even a small part of it, you can get your key code.

Now first you have to get the file with the password in it (It's gotta be combed through, but it's in there clear day if you take your time)

This sounds like a pain in the ♥♥♥♥ at first, but after practice, and a little re sizing of windows, and copying and pasting ♥♥♥♥ it becomes second nature. It could easily be scripted too. Here goes:

1) Open a command prompt (Shouldn't need elevation, but good idea). (WINDOWS KEY+R) -> CMD.EXE -> (ENTER)
(Windows 8+, Server 2008R2+) -> WINDOWS KEY+X -> A)

---If C:\WINDOWS\system32> is displayed in prompt IGNORE THIS STEP unless steam is somewhere else---
!!Optional!! 2) Type in followed with enter -> C: (Replace C with the drive letter where your steam folder is)

--Most likely 64-bit PC is common one that will work most computers (3a). I put 3 different things here since everyone doesn't use same setup.---

3a) 64 bit PC: Type in followed with enter -> cd "%programfiles(x86)%\Steam\steamapps\common\Shadowrun Hong Kong\SRHK_Data\StreamingAssets\ContentPacks\HongKong\data\convos"

3b) 32-bit PC type in followed with enter -> cd "%programfiles%\Steam\steamapps\common\Shadowrun Hong Kong\SRHK_Data\StreamingAssets\ContentPacks\HongKong\data\convos"

3c) custom steam folder location

-> 3.c.1 -> set steamfolderlocation=REPLACETHISTEXTWITHYOURSTEAMFOLDERLOCATIONWITHNOPROCEEDINGBACKSLASH

(if command prompt is elevated use this command instead of above one to avoid doing this step repeatedly) -> setx /M steamfolderlocation REPLACETHISTEXTWITHYOURSTEAMFOLDERLOCATIONWITHNOPROCEEDINGBACKSLASH

-> 3.c.2 -> cd "%steamfolderlocation%\steamapps\common\Shadowrun Hong Kong\SRHK_Data\StreamingAssets\ContentPacks\HongKong\data\convos"

---The File---
4) Type followed by enter -> findstr /M /C:"This sub-menu is locked with a secured password." *.bytes
output should be something like:
5524518b3234376c45004dca.convo.bytes

Now in step 4 with other keypads you'd replace only: This sub-menu is locked with a secured password.
with whatever text you took out of the screenshot of the keypad. tennyson is easy to find, numbers are
a bit more tricky, but usually *HINT* they are isolated and after colons. Have fun.

---Dilemma---
5) Sometimes you get two outputs. No problem Just repeat the next step on both files and try whatever code you find in both of them. One's bound to work.

---Let's check it out---
6) You'd think notepad would be a good choice huh? Well let me tell you, it thought one of the files was Chinese once, and there was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I could do to turn off the option. Not so good. Use good old word pad to avoid that old problem.
Now right click the console, left click mark. Select the 5524518b3234376c45004dca.convo.bytes entirely. Don't miss anything or ♥♥♥♥ will ♥♥♥♥ up.
Then type in -> write
leave a space after write, and then just right click the console again and click paste and blam. You should have an output like:
write 5524518b3234376c45004dca.convo.bytes

If for some reason WRITE.EXE doesn't work, then your windows is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. You need path to be pointing to %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32. And that file
should be there. If it's not then fix your windows installation, it's corrupt. To do the path thing, type PATH %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32. Don't
ever do that unless write fails cause that will literally overwrite all your other path variables, I'm just putting that out there for any random errors.

Notepad also is horrible because it's a giant mess to look filter through opposed to WRITE.

Anyway, that should open Word pad. And if you stare at the text long enough in that file you should find tennyson. Yeah you saw it in this forum.
But, guess what, come across any keypad in the game there's your little technique if you can't find an answer on the net.

Just thought I'd post this little fun way I came across finding stuff in the game. Hope someone does try it.

[DrakenKin]

Ok but how did you find out TENNYSON? In the game?

It is not written on the painting, not the mission logs... how can you find this name legitimately in game?

[steelcoresoviet]

It stems from knowledge of the painting.

I felt pretty damn smart when I figured it out.

[Kernest]

Originally posted by Draken:

Ok but how did you find out TENNYSON? In the game?

It is not written on the painting, not the mission logs... how can you find this name legitimately in game?

You can't really. You kinda have to know it or google it. Though on the Shadowland BBS forums one of the writes in the poetry slam thread has a handle that derives from his name. That might be enough to jog the memories of people who know of the poem but can't remember the guys name.

But the STR check is easy, you can either do it yourself of have Gaichu do it.

[Edelguard]

BTW it seems that the image using ingame has been flipped!

This is the original: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/John_William_Waterhouse_-_The_Lady_of_Shalott_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

The lady ingame is facing to the left.

[Ninthshadow]

I feel like somewhere along the line a patch dead-ended the conversation where it shouldn't have.

Maybe I'm losing my marbles, but I felt like at some point the intelligence check could lead to the solution. Perhaps it is triggered by the conversation with Is0bel at the terminal? She does provide some insight into looking into the password, so it may be a good idea to take her along just in case.

Either way, it's a frustrating puzzle to solve if you don't bring a dedicated decker NPC, for whatever reason.

As one of the first available missions, there's a good chance that you may not have Gaichu (the only crew member with the strength to bust the case) for the brute force method. Even if your character is the resident gun-nut/street samauri, I feel like most PCs will fall short of the strength requirement if it's the first (maybe second) run.

Luckily I found it's one of the few situations in the game a well-rounded party does not ensure 100% completion. They are so few are far between, I think I can count them on one hand.

[mhpenna]

Answer is Tennyson. Meaning Lord Alfred Tennyson, author of the ballad The Lady of Shalott. The painting is based on that ballad.

[frdnwsm]

Note that breaking the shelf by force adds +1 to the alarm total. You will have to steal only 8 objects instead of 9 to avoid setting it off.

[sents]

The password is
tennyson , the painter of the picture.

[Mack Yuu]

Originally posted by sents:

The password is
tennyson , the painter of the picture.

Bruh, if you're gonna thread necro, check the other replies. Not only did someone else already post an answer to this July of 2016 question, Tennyson isn't the painter, but the poet that inspired the painting.

[Sliser Reidez]

door pasword ( tennyson )

[Gavener]

Thanks, reading all these comments iw as what is the CODE, then i figured it out, it doenst have to be numbers