diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index 99b5e7d07..f8f1e5f13 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jlinker = "1.0.7"
 jphantom = "1.4.4"
 junit = "5.11.0"
 jsvg = "1.6.1"
-llzip = "2.6.2"
+lljzip = "2.7.0"
 logback-classic = { strictly = "1.4.11" } # newer releases break in jar releases
 mapping-io = "0.6.1"
 mockito = "5.14.2"
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ junit-params = { module = "org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-params", version.ref
 
 jsvg = { module = "com.github.weisj:jsvg", version.ref = "jsvg" }
 
-llzip = { module = "software.coley:lljzip", version.ref = "llzip" }
+lljzip = { module = "software.coley:lljzip", version.ref = "lljzip" }
 
 logback-classic = { module = "ch.qos.logback:logback-classic", version.ref = "logback-classic" }
 
diff --git a/recaf-core/build.gradle b/recaf-core/build.gradle
index ad31ba263..eda3177ec 100644
--- a/recaf-core/build.gradle
+++ b/recaf-core/build.gradle
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ dependencies {
     api(libs.gson) // required by R8 (from dex-translator)
     api(libs.instrument.server)
     api(libs.jphantom)
-    api(libs.llzip)
+    api(libs.lljzip)
     api(libs.bundles.logging)
     api(libs.mapping.io)
     api(libs.natural.order)
diff --git a/recaf-core/src/main/java/software/coley/recaf/services/workspace/io/ResourceImporterConfig.java b/recaf-core/src/main/java/software/coley/recaf/services/workspace/io/ResourceImporterConfig.java
index add51a5b0..794968040 100644
--- a/recaf-core/src/main/java/software/coley/recaf/services/workspace/io/ResourceImporterConfig.java
+++ b/recaf-core/src/main/java/software/coley/recaf/services/workspace/io/ResourceImporterConfig.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 public class ResourceImporterConfig extends BasicConfigContainer implements ServiceConfig {
 	private final ObservableObject<ZipStrategy> zipStrategy = new ObservableObject<>(ZipStrategy.JVM);
 	private final ObservableBoolean skipRevisitedCenToLocalLinks = new ObservableBoolean(true);
+	private final ObservableBoolean allowBasicJvmBaseOffsetZeroCheck = new ObservableBoolean(true);
 
 	@Inject
 	public ResourceImporterConfig() {
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ public ResourceImporterConfig() {
 
 		addValue(new BasicConfigValue<>("zip-strategy", ZipStrategy.class, zipStrategy));
 		addValue(new BasicConfigValue<>("skip-revisited-cen-to-local-links", boolean.class, skipRevisitedCenToLocalLinks));
+		addValue(new BasicConfigValue<>("allow-basic-base-offset-zero-check", boolean.class, allowBasicJvmBaseOffsetZeroCheck));
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -55,6 +57,30 @@ public ObservableBoolean getSkipRevisitedCenToLocalLinks() {
 		return skipRevisitedCenToLocalLinks;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * When the {@link #getZipStrategy() ZIP strategy} is {@link ZipStrategy#JVM} this allows toggling
+	 * how the JVM base offset of the zip file is calculated. Normally the start of a ZIP file is calculated
+	 * based off the logic in {@code ZipFile.Source#findEND()} which looks like:
+	 * <pre>{@code
+	 *  // ENDSIG matched, however the size of file comment in it does
+	 *  // not match the real size. One "common" cause for this problem
+	 *  // is some "extra" bytes are padded at the end of the zipfile.
+	 *  // Let's do some extra verification, we don't care about the
+	 *  // performance in this situation.
+	 *  byte[] sbuf = new byte[4];
+	 *  long cenpos = end.endpos - end.cenlen;
+	 *  long locpos = cenpos - end.cenoff;
+	 * }</pre>
+	 * In some edge cases this results in {@code locpos} being {@code > 0} even when the file has no prefix/padding.
+	 *
+	 * @return {@code true} when defaulting to check for zero being the base JVM zip offset instead of the lookup
+	 * based on the code in {@code ZipFile.Source#findEND()}.
+	 */
+	@Nonnull
+	public ObservableBoolean getAllowBasicJvmBaseOffsetZeroCheck() {
+		return allowBasicJvmBaseOffsetZeroCheck;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * @return Mapping of input bytes to a ZIP archive model.
 	 */
@@ -62,7 +88,8 @@ public ObservableBoolean getSkipRevisitedCenToLocalLinks() {
 	public UncheckedFunction<byte[], ZipArchive> mapping() {
 		ZipStrategy strategy = zipStrategy.getValue();
 		if (strategy == ZipStrategy.JVM)
-			return input -> ZipIO.read(input, new JvmZipReader(skipRevisitedCenToLocalLinks.getValue()));
+			return input -> ZipIO.read(input, new JvmZipReader(skipRevisitedCenToLocalLinks.getValue(),
+					allowBasicJvmBaseOffsetZeroCheck.getValue()));
 		if (strategy == ZipStrategy.STANDARD)
 			return ZipIO::readStandard;
 		return ZipIO::readNaive;
diff --git a/recaf-ui/src/main/resources/translations/en_US.lang b/recaf-ui/src/main/resources/translations/en_US.lang
index 01a7c7358..2593d595f 100644
--- a/recaf-ui/src/main/resources/translations/en_US.lang
+++ b/recaf-ui/src/main/resources/translations/en_US.lang
@@ -741,6 +741,7 @@ service.io.recent-workspaces-config.recent-workspaces=Recent workspace
 service.io.recent-workspaces-config.last-class-export-path=Last class export path
 service.io.resource-importer-config=Archive importing
 service.io.resource-importer-config.zip-strategy=ZIP parsing strategy
+service.io.resource-importer-config.allow-basic-base-offset-zero-check=Default to check 0 as zip beginning with JVM strategy
 service.io.resource-importer-config.skip-revisited-cen-to-local-links=Skip duplicate CEN-to-LOC entries with JVM strategy
 service.mapping=Mapping
 service.mapping.mapping-aggregator-config=Mapping aggregation