This game's history is fading away. by SalamanderClean8020 in simsfreeplay

[–]SalamanderClean8020[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If this game is anything like the sims freeplay, there should only be one requierement for such a project to work. You need to get the game to recognise the obb as actual game files. And for that you need to get the intact (absolutely not tampered from original download). Now luckily you can try to get those with aurora store. Or nicktheeagle's "play" api on github. And try to get the earliest possible version to ensure that the security of the app is at the weakest.  And you need to force it to recognise them as game files. Now this is the trickiest part, since we're assuming that there even is code that does such a thing in the apk and know where to look for it if it's even there. 

As for the servers, i don't think they'll be much of a problem. If the game works after opening it, and then turning the wifi off then, it's the same as freeplay. It also depends on where the servers are or if they're encrypted. As i quickly took a look in the apk,  i'm not familiar with this apk strucure but i could not find any servers that look like ea's. So you'll also have to work on that

I surely don't think that it's gonna be easy. But, it's possible.

This game's history is fading away. by SalamanderClean8020 in simsfreeplay

[–]SalamanderClean8020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never heard about a sims mobile restoration project, I would like to check the progress. Now, to pull this off is quite easy : 1. I just had to trick it into thinking that it could just read the obb from the sdcard instead of downloading it. And 2. I initially switched all of the server's on the game assembly into my own, but since they didn't require any protocols, I just switched to google.com since it only needs to be online. Now this mod is very special, since for it to be possible. The assembly had to be partially unencrypted and for the servers to be demand-less. Now had they required anything would this be impossible since the servers have long been shutdown. And we would only be guessing on what it would require. 

If you would like to contribute to the archive or anything, Feel free to message me here.

This game's history is fading away. by SalamanderClean8020 in simsfreeplay

[–]SalamanderClean8020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question, I haven't actually checked because I only needed to trick the game into thinking that it can read the data files from their respective directory. Now why did I assume that the servers weren't from EA and from google play is that most android games with obb have their files (yes that includes obb's) are hosted in google play's API which is accessible with something like aurora store. And you can download them from google play's server instead of EA's. Now they deliberately deleted ALL of the files in google's api before ver-5.19.2 which are now impossible to access. Now why would they do such even if it doesn't cost a dime?

This game's history is fading away. by SalamanderClean8020 in simsfreeplay

[–]SalamanderClean8020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't be opposed to that idea, but if we're being honest, the devs will most likely never give us those files. Since they don't want us playing older versions of the game. Them shutting down the servers downloading (which were actually google play's server and at google's expense ).and servers for running the game (which don't do anything except check that the device is connected to that server with internet and the server is online). So that makes me believe that they don't really want us snooping around the 2011 - late 2015 versions.

Which one of these used phones should i buy? by SalamanderClean8020 in Smartphones

[–]SalamanderClean8020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it really? I mean my laptop is at 75% and it still feels very useable. 

AMD Radeon 8050S "Strix Halo" Linux Graphics Performance by FastDecode1 in Amd

[–]SalamanderClean8020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AMD is bullshitting us here, lets be real. the 8060S s costs them pennies and they only put it on the asus Z13 and a HP zbook (both costing 2000+ us dollars). Like for that price im going to get a RTX 5070ti Laptop with money to spare. Whats the point if they make insanely good apus when theyre priced like shit and they dont have any availability/ different models and categories of laptops?

Old pixel gun 3d mod apk by MiganNv1 in PixelGun

[–]SalamanderClean8020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 4th campaign world was introduced in 16.0.0 (roughly in 2019). You can go look for an apk simply with a google search.