Trouble Decoding Encoded game cheat file - security

So i noticed someone was cheating in i game i play and i wanted the file to analyse how the cheats were written and how they work, i do not intend to use them!
I downloaded the zipped file in windows sandbox (as i want to be safe) and extracted it then opened it in vs code.
I got this message first
then when i continue the code looks like this
i am not very experienced so any help in how i can decode this or any errors i made would be appreciated thanks :)

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