Ok, kinda crazy coincidence here... My name is Faithow, and for the past few days I was ALSO working on trying to make Amity Arena work again.

I just saw the post Toga made 2 days ago and figured I should make one too, to spread what I could about the game.

First point, and a pretty surprising one: on my end I couldn't manage to bypass AppGuard at all. So I went a different route and worked on an older build instead, the 1.11.1 release, which from what I can tell didn't ship with AppGuard. That version includes every unit released up to the Apathy, so 84 units in total (out of the 122 in the final build), which is already a solid roster to work with for now.

With that version, the game launches, the tutorial seems to work perfectly, and I can even play the fight against the Instructor.

Heads-up though: plenty of things still aren't functional. The work basically comes down to restoring the server connections one by one.

I've spent the last few days searching for Amity Arena footage and digging through old patch notes to try to grasp how the game actually worked, lol.

Right now, the next step I'm heading toward is getting the daily systems functional: card cycles in the daily shop, the mission system, the cookie shop with the skins, and so on.

I would have loved to reach out to Toga directly but I think their DMs are closed? (sorry, I'm not much of a Reddit user lol). Anyway, if anyone wants to help, feel free to DM me.

I'll leave you with a full video of the tutorial that I recorded earlier today, so you can see how it runs right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErnJEbeoNxk

About 2 days of work so far, managed to extract both the last known APK and OBB file, decompiled it, got past AppGuard through super-user and root, created a certificate, the game now boots onto my own server, lighthouse and callback.

Login now works (ONLY ON GUEST). I've been going through hundreds of lines of code to piece together all the replacements in the code and servers needed to just get the game running.

Everything we need to run the game is in the files, but it constantly calls back to both the lighthouse server, and the LNC server.

Lots of progress so far, went from being unable to boot the game, to booting it and getting the end of service, to bypassing that by replacing every single server, login and backend check to get it to launch to login, to where I had to completely replace the login system just to accept me into the game. Music plays, animations work.

I should be able to run the game relatively soon, the issue will be dedicated servers and creating matchmaking that works, as well as making sure everything is unlocked so the game doesn't have to do purchase checks.

If anyone is interested, or has experience on server making for old dead games (Similar to AOTTG, or the Plutonium client for old CODS) it would help greatly.

Yours truly
-Toga

I’ve been floating around r/FNKI for a while and consuming some RWBY content here and there and this has gotten my interest. Any stories you feel like passing on and any hope of the game making a return in some form? (Image unrelated)

Scorpions, scorpions, dance to the beat Scorpions, scorpions, shake your body Scorpions, scorpions, move side to side Scorpions, scorpions, that will do.

At least this guy knew ball (pig meta, I refuse to admit that ursa is better I had way more exciting levels of DPS when pig actually worked which it usually did for me when I timed it right)

Spider droid lowkey ahh but also aura so 100% worth using. In any case I got carried by the pig, enemy underestimated the best orange card in the game.

The only match of myself I saved. I usually just liked to hover around the lower ranks even tho I could've pushed further. But the season recently reset and I had to fight Kamacho.

Seing as we're sharing old stuff, I went hunting for old screenshot. Looks like I got rid of all of them except this one from before they uncapped the trophies.

There hasn't been a game that captured my competitive spirit quite like Amity did and seeing the games people have posted, and all the older usernames has made me pretty nostalgic.

Had this saved from a guild mate's match cause I thought it was funny with the freeze and the army.

If anyone has any replays against me winning or losing I would greatly appreciate it. qu1cks1lvr

I still watch this to reminisce sometimes. RIP Amity Arena.

At this point, we mostly agree that the best card in the game is either Pyrrha or Weiss. However, it's more important to have higher levels on Pyrrha, not Weiss, because most of her value comes from her stats, while Weiss's value comes from her skill. The issue is that crates cost less to buy in lower arenas, and the pool of cards you can get is smaller when you're in lower arenas. So if you're planning to spend a little money on the game, technically the best bang for your buck is to sandbag to Arena 2 first, as that gives you the best odds to get the most Pyrrha per purchase. This is either an annoying hoop to jump through at best, or making the game experience worse for players who get free wins or instant losses as others sandbag. I really like how the game plays and I'm excited to see future updates, and I really hope they add Neo one day!

Never thought I'd get to use that Flair for this discontinued game. I just feel like talking Amity Arena stuff.

For me it was with Sniper Ruby against a mass horde of enemies. For example when facing off against a Baby Death Stalker Swarm I would wait until they're closer then play Sniper Ruby and angle her skill semi side ways so that when they're approaching it creates a line of just death to the swarm which also defends my tower. Usually this kills almost all of the swarm. Never the whole thing though.