Any Android Phone Experts here?

Help Installing Final Fantasy IV on My Android Device ​

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I've succesfully dowloaded and played the android version of FF III on my android device, i didnt purchase it though, i downloaded it from a site for free...
I tried the same with FF IV, installed it, but im not able to play it on my device...
If someone here knows a lot about installing games with cache, you can read further, else there is no need to continue reading, coz this will make no sense to you...



I installed the .apk file in my phone and copied the cache file (main.120.com.square_enix.android_googleplay.FFIV_GP.obb) to the phone memory.
/mnt/sdcard/Android/data/

Thats what the site says to do, but even after doing this, it doesnt work for me...
When installation finishes and i open the game, it shows "Connecting..." and says "connection error", even with my wifi network enabled...
FF III Required the same steps to work, and it worked for me...


If anyone here knows what to do, or had the same problem and found a solution for it, please HELP...

 

have you tried using lucky patcher?

 

no i havent tried that yet... ive read a lot of comment/reviews that it wont work anymore?? not too sure though...

 

Sorry for bumping this thread, @Dark Infernape . But did you manage to solve it in the end?

Because from what I understand from your description, it sounds like you've run into an anti-piracy mechanism which forces the game to connect to Square Enix' servers in order to validate the license. If the license is invalid, the app stops running.

I had the same problem when I tried to install Double Dragon (not DotEmu's version) several years ago, and I never managed to solve it.

 

I really have no idea.

Does this apply to all of the apk:s "floating around" on various websites? Or does this only work on the Android version of FFIV?

And this enables the game(s) to be able to be played offline at all times, without the need for an internet connection?

 

So if the obb isn't provided, then the game can't be played at all? Is there a way to "bypass" the lack of obb then?

Does this method require a "jailbroken"/"unrooted" phone? Or can any newly bought phone literally run every app with this method?

But then the servers will discover if the player is running an "unsupported" version of the app, right?

 

Yes i remember i managed to fix this back then and played the game on my mobile. 2013 was when i got my first android smartphone, i was still learnin the basics at the time

 

Great!

What about other premium games which need "additional download", like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for example? While it's easy to install that game as a third party app, it still needs to connect to the game servers in order to download additional files. When that happens, the game stops because the servers recognise "an unauthorised usage of an unlicensed version".

So those games are unplayable then?

 

So how did you fix it? With the same method which Prectorian had described?

 

Is there a way to know for sure that a specific apk is "signed"?

 

4 years ago mate, i barely remember what i had for dinner last night

 

@Dark Infernape
Don't you play other premium Android apk:s using the same method?

 

No FF 3 and 4 were some of the last games i played on android. Haven't played any game on my phone since, until last year, when i installed PoGo, and Mobius.

 

Okay, I see. What do you think of the Android-versions of FF3-4 compared with the DS-versions?

 

This knowledge you just shared with me (and any interested RomU-member) is enough for me to know where to look. Thanks Prectorian. Any help from you is appreciated.