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.

  • kurwa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I wonder if in this case you could just mimic the OG server and return a 200. Could just do that with a hosts file change. Although if it’s looking for anything else from that verification endpoint then decompiling would be the answer.