Talk:Book of the Cafe

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Game Archival[edit source]

Currently there is no way to download BotC, and with no publicly known archives it's technically lost media. Could someone link a safe archival of the apk somewhere so that it's preserved for future use? R8Spike (talk) 18:35, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I'm currently working on it, but unfortunately every time you try to download the APK it displays assortment of issues; from attempting to install it on BlueStacks at least it displays "Failed to load libmain.so" error and I couldn't find anything concrete to fix this issue (I have attempted to DL the APK file on other mobile devices to no avail). I still have BotC on the device and I have converted it into APK; but if APK doesn't download, then what's the point? I could upload APK as is, but as far as I'm aware it's a bust and will refuse to download. RT GYPHON (talk) 06:00, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
hmmm... I don't know the exact issue but that seems to be the case with a faulty upload? Try uploading it to a different platform or remake the APK and upload again. For it not downloading I know a lot of android devices try to make downloading and installing APKs hard on purpose, needing to dive deep into settings to enable the functionality. If that's the problem then try configuring the other devices to be able to download/install them. R8Spike (talk) 13:04, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
Welp, no dice. I've tried other APK extractors and the yield the same results. I don't know how to "remake" APKs, I don't possess the advanced knowledge for it - and the searching for the error regarding "libmain.so is missing" is rather underwhelming or is way above the level I can do. Not sure how Wiki will be recipient towards this sort of stuff but here's link to my APK of BotC Full Version and see what you (or anyone else) can do. Again, note that it WON'T INSTALL on devices - which is strange considering I have extracted APKs in the past and they worked alright (to be fair, BotC itself seems to be shoddily made game - as quite a lot of files are missing judging by AssetStudio; and I have witnessed it having internal errors regarding missing files in-game as well) RT GYPHON (talk) 07:30, 19 March 2025 (UTC)
Yeah by "remaking the apk" I just meant re-extracting it, doing exactly what you did there.
I played around with unzipping the apk file and I noticed a lack of a lib directory (folder), which contains needed information to run/download a game. Apparently games are now being distributed using multiple APK files, and while I can't confirm that BotC is one of those, I looked at a few different repacks for Among Us (another unity game) and they both had a separate config.arm64_v8a.apk package that had the lib directory, along with a apk for the asset pack and a apk for the game itself, that didn't have a lib directory. Idk if this is helpful or not, and might just be a red herring, but it might give some pointers on what's going wrong. R8Spike (talk) 19:24, 19 March 2025 (UTC)