I paid for Puzzle Quest 2 on android like a decade+ ago. It is a local single-player game. It has a validation check when you open the app. That check fails because this game is ancient and the servers are offline.

I want to replay the game I paid for. I have the APK from an APK site. It’s even been pulled from steam to push their crappy p2w pq3. Anyone have tricks to crank an APK and bypass a server check? I’ve decompiled the APK but am in a bit over my head.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Try lucky patcher to remove licence verification. It’s a very hit&miss tool; but when it works it does well.

  • KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    with sonic runners, they had to reverse engineer the whole server infrastructure. i’d say the chances of you patching out server checks without decompiling the entire game are low.

    but i’m not any kind of programmer, so i’d love to be proven wrong.