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Decompilation/Unzip of a backed up app

AlexisTR

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Hello!, so as the tittle says I have trouble viewing the files/archives of an app more specifically Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM Pocket, the trouble is that I tried to decompile or just simply unzip the .apk (and even the .tar file too) to get to the archives, more specific i'm looking for the folder that contains the soundtrack of the game but it is anywhere to be found, actually there's very little stuff about the game in the folders contained within the .apk just like loading screens and animations and there are more data in the .tar file like the characters all the cards images and stuff, am I doing something wrong to not get the folder I want? (i'm unzipping them separately if that somehow matters and also idk if they can even be extracted altogether) a little extra detail is that this app requires of abode AIR to work I've tried to search for sound files in many format extensions accepted within the android architecture with the ES file explorer to see if the soundtrack was contained somewhere else but with no luck.... your help will be most appreciated if more details are required i'll provide them (almost forgot to say that this app is no longer in existence in the app store but curiously in my nox player emulator it updated and even shows up in the app store but no reviews show nor any related apps).
 
I've looked for those already along with files with .3gp .m4a .aac .ts ..flac .mid .xmf .mxmf ..rtttl .rtx .ota .imy .mkv and .wav no luck with any of these
 
I could be that the game's music files aren't in the APK. and are downloaded as additional content when the game runs and connects to a server, along with additional graphics, gameplay data, etc. If you still got it installed and playable on your device, see if there's any additional cache folders and/or files it created in the internal storage. The music maybe there possibly.

But it looks like Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM Pocket has been discontinued, it's no longer in the Play Store, so the servers it needs to connect and download from maybe shutdown as well.
 
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I could be that the game's music files aren't in the APK. and are downloaded as additional content when the game runs and connects to a server, along with additional graphics, gameplay data, etc. If you still got it installed and playable on your device, see if there's any additional cache folders and/or files it created in the internal storage. The music maybe there possibly.

But it looks like Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM Pocket has been discontinued, it's no longer in the Play Store, so the servers it needs to connect and download from maybe shutdown as well.

Yeah YGO BAM! was retired from the app store sometime around august/September of 2016 but if the music and other data was on an external server like you suggest I think I would not be able to play the game 'cause it had many multiplayer features but obviously since the servers are down I can only play offline but everything else works as it should be, that's why this app can only be played as a backup from titanium since if you download just the apk it will not load and just show a "unexpected error" screen, idk how these titanium backups actually work but, could it be possible that the backup i'm playing (since it is before it was removed from the appstore) has the data from those servers that no longer exist and that's why things still work normally but since they don't exist anymore it doesn't show the actual files? also if it matters this game was first a facebook game then the fb game was cancelled and turned into a mobile game in which as far as I remember all your stuff from fb could be carried over the mobile version.
 
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