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Showing posts with label Dead Game Revival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dead Game Revival. Show all posts

Monday, November 13, 2023

Lost Islands Guides

Well thanks to my newfound Lost Islands addiction (Booting it up every hour or so and in between classes) I had the big brain very smart idea of adding more guide pages to the current Lost Islands page under all of the other games.

Though I am debating creating a new page specifically for Lost Islands, I don't want this site to devolve into clicking millions of links to get where you want to be.

Anyways enjoy these guides, and I'll update them as I go through the game, and hopefully I can rip assets for better images...

Thank you!

Friday, November 10, 2023

Coming Back With Some News!

 Hey, well I'm returning to my Skylanders blog site finally, a lot has happened in that time but the best news here is that Lost Islands is no longer, well, lost.

Ta da! Here's a fully functioning guide!

I published a guide alongside the help of another Skylanders fan JesseTheLamest who you can check out their channel here!

Also here's my island so far...

Thank you for taking the time to check out my site!

Monday, April 17, 2023

The woes of not knowing how to code

    Sometimes, the fact that I do not know how to code likes to come back and hit me in the face every once in a while. And yes, it is annoying. But I know at some point I will get it right.
Android Studio telling me that I have exactly 27,007 errors, and 10 warnings

    I don't know what these errors are, or what they mean, but with enough willpower and Stack Overflow searches, I can manage. I also found a group of people who have also been looking at reverse engineering some of the Skylanders mobile games. They are also looking for someone with Superchargers on an IOS device, if you do own it, please use my contact form near the bottom of the post.
Otherwise, I am learning!
Broken Login Screen

    One of the biggest issues I faced was getting the bare application to run, whether it was a broken file or an incorrect device. I resorted to using my phone for emulation. After a while, I did manage to find an APK that allowed me to boot into the broken loading screen. I like to attribute it to the fact that I still use a Samsung S6 as most emulated devices kept telling me that the game was made to run on older hardware. I'm surprised I didn't pick up a virus on the way with the sketchy APK sites I went through. 
    Now I know there are some things that need to be fixed to allow it to run on newer hardware since I doubt that any of you here also use a Samsung S6. In my defense, if it isn't broken, don't fix it. Well, my phone camera makes a weird rattling sound every time I turn it on, my little sister did that. And this project is entirely about fixing a broken game...
    I have been thinking, but I'm not sure how this will allow for Skylanders toy codes since they were most likely stored on the previous server. And this will most likely be only runnable on a computer. I plan on creating a page with useable toy codes if I could make the server and somehow pull them. A page full of toy codes for every Skylander in the game would be neat, you could choose to just add Skylanders that you own, or add every Skylander in the whole game because who's going to stop you? Not me.
    Now onto the part where I actually fill you all in on the update in a way that looks a bit more professional, AKA I just use a bullet point list and shorten down what I've already said.

4/XX/23 Update:
  • Booted the game
  • Found some super cool files (A ton were for Facebook support)
  • Found some cool people who are helping me

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Skylanders Lost Islands: Restoration Project

    If you've looked at the helpful links page recently, then you might have noticed that I have added sections for each mobile game and that there is a (currently not functioning) spot for a revived version of Skylanders: Lost Islands in its section.

    Currently, I have started a project to emulate the old servers again to get the game working. I'll be making frequent updates on the blog on the progress of the project.

    If I never finish the project, I'll upload the unfinished code if somebody would ever want to take over from my trashy spaghetti code. Just a note, I know very minimal code, so I wouldn't bet on it being completed anytime soon...

    Ah, I'm only partially joking, don't worry, I'm learning, and I plan on finishing this whole thing.


-Arbo

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