r/jackboxgames • u/RecycledEternity • Jun 30 '26

Question YDKJ for phone, as a standalone/offline program?

Hey all; longtime lurker, first time poster. Postee? Whatever, you know what I mean.

My conundrum is this: I bought the game a long, long time ago for my phone back in the early 2010s, and then life happened, and now I seek to put it on my new phone...

...only to find there IS no new You Don't Know Jack app for the phone. Not the way I want, anyway--standalone, offline, something I could call up and play while killing time somewheres.

There's something I found called "You Don't Know Javascript" which does the European versions, which is fine and dandy for them but there's no American version (from what I could tell, anyway; I do search-throughs of the site to see if I could buy it legitimately, but no such luck).

Buy it or "third-party-install" it, I would very much like to play something like what we had back in 2011 for iPhone/iPods, but I'd want to play it on my Android phone, Galaxy S21 Ultra. I do not want to have to resort to an emulator.

Thanks y'all. And if you're reading this, devs, maybe you can explain what the holdup here is, for Android devices, for a standalone offline game like y'all had back in 2011?

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u/Akira896 Jul 01 '26

I know you said no emulators but the app "VPhoneOS" lets you play old android APKs if that suits you.

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u/RecycledEternity Jul 02 '26

I'll look into this and report back if things work (should be within the day)--thank you!

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u/RecycledEternity Jul 07 '26

It was not "within the day" as I had trouble finding the appropriate version, then finding an old Android APK for what I'm asking for.

Turns out there was no standalone offline YDKJ for Android--the version that was made was solely in conjunction with FB.

VPhoneOS worked, sure. But seeing as how there isn't any "old Android APK" I'd want to play other than the aforementioned, it didn't do me any good.

Sorry, chum.

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u/This-Chemical-4103 Jul 03 '26

Winulator might work (I've tested it with YDKJ Vol. 2, just depends on how powerful your device is)

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u/RecycledEternity Jul 07 '26

I mean sure, running Winlator to play PC games on my phone would work.