How to modify/manipulate game files or prefs files through Game Guardian

[ghoul69]

Hey guys, I want to modify the game files of a game, now the game is perfectly modifiable either by patching it with LP and getting free purchases or by simply modifying the values from GG

But my problem is, when I modify these values using file explorers like ES File Explorer and find the values of my Gems and edit them to 9999, and when I open the game, it somehow detects that I have done something and it resets my ID as if it is a new account and erases all my game data and starts from beginning , this doesn't happen when using LP or GG but through simple file editing it happens, I have even tried changing the modified time of the file back to the original when it was modified by the game, and it still recognises that I have done something and resets my progress 

Now, why I want to do it through file system is, I have a new ID and in the game files there are certain codes or numbers attached to game items and in order to get those old items in my new account or remove something from my account I thought to change the number in the files of the app, but whenever I try to change something my progress is reset, even I change something and then undo it and save the file to what exactly how it was before, the game still recognises I have done something and resets

So please help if there is a way to do this easily through GG, either by editing the files through GG so the game doesn't recognise it like it doesn't recognise when I edit the gems/coins directly 

Or tell me a method through GG by which I can claim or unclaim certain items of the game by finding out their address hex code or whatever 

[ghoul69]

P.S - The file is a (.hl) file and the game is based on Unity

Also tell me if I am doing something wrong and editing the files safely is possible through File explorers so that the game doesn't recognise then also tell me, I could only figure out the modified time changes when I edit the file and I thought that is what was causing the issue, but if not that, what else can let the game know that I have edited the file, and moreover if they have this kind of security over editing a file directly, why not implement such security from LP or GG editing too

[ghoul69]

5 hours ago, Count_Nosferatu said:

Are you familiar with checksum verification method?
This checksum can be written in file itself.
There can be several of them in file, to control different areas.
One for game currency, one for items, one for character stats. And so on.
Without knowing file (.hl) structure, your actions are meaningless.

Hey, first of all thanks a lot for the reply, and I indeed did not know about checksum verification, I googled and yup everything went over my head but atleast I got my answer as to why it was happening, and since you didn't say anything about bypassing it, I don't suppose its possible? I will share with you the (.hl) file structure if you want and the il2cpp.co or whatever (I browsed the net and found out this il2cpp also has something to do with checksum and I just checked my game files and yup this is there too)

Anyways let me tell why I was doing what I was so maybe there's a better way to do it, as I already said in my post its for getting old items into my new ID, earlier it used to be possible because I could just change the date on my emulator and the game would work I downloaded the previous version and set the right date, but now it doesn't work, earlier I used to go back even 6 months and get older items, but now I can't even go back more than a month, and the game says 'failed to load cloud data" and goes into " offline mode" so I can't even access the store even though the items are right infront of me

Now my thought process was like this-

Want old items>go to previous version and date like before (failed)>check if game guardian can help(no game guardian can only forward the time)>check if something can be done through game files(yes found out the information of my account like items, accessories, currency stored in .hl file)>try to modify(checksum verification failed and ID got reset to new, all progress lost)

I even tried to look into game files through Cheat Droid, APK Editor and other similar apps, I did find a lot of things but unfortunately I didn't understand any of it

So please tell me,

1. If there's a simpler way to access the store when I go back to the date with the right version, like if we can disable/enable something in the app files to get it enter online mode like before and sync the cloud data

2. Or if this checksum verification can be bypassed and I can simply use the .hl file of my old ID to have the same items in my new ID

3. Or if Game Guardian can help my in getting the items by figuring out the code or address or anything because I have access to the old ID also

Please keep in mind I'm totally new to this so I can follow instructions but don't have the knowledge of any of this stuff apart from what little a google search can tell me

[Count_Nosferatu]

17 hours ago, ghoul69 said:

P.S - The file is a (.hl) file and the game is based on Unity

Also tell me if I am doing something wrong and editing the files safely is possible through File explorers so that the game doesn't recognise then also tell me, I could only figure out the modified time changes when I edit the file and I thought that is what was causing the issue, but if not that, what else can let the game know that I have edited the file, and moreover if they have this kind of security over editing a file directly, why not implement such security from LP or GG editing too

Are you familiar with checksum verification method?
This checksum can be written in file itself.
There can be several of them in file, to control different areas.
One for game currency, one for items, one for character stats. And so on.
Without knowing file (.hl) structure, your actions are meaningless.

[ghoul69]

1 hour ago, ghoul69 said:

Now my thought process was like this-

Want old items>

Also @Count_NosferatuI forgot to tell you why I want this, although it would be nice to have all the items in my new ID, this was not just because I "wanted" it

My Old ID had a glitch and one of the many item tabs does not work now, so whatever Items I had collected in the sub group are all wiped away, I want the only thing I need to get my new ID be as good as my Old ID is the Old items, everytime this happened before I used to make a new ID and get old items by changing the date back and I had nothing lost because everything else can be modified using GG like coins, gems, cups etc. but now that the date changing method is not working

If there is a way to get those particular items back in my customisation menu then that would be good enough too, because I technically had claimed those items before it's just because of a bug that I can't access those, or if there is a way to "unclaim" those items too, that also would be good enough because every item I need in that tab is available right infront of me, the problem is I had claimed them before and it's not showing up on my tab so I need to find a way to "re-claim" them, because I have find out claiming further items for that specific corrupted tab resets the progress of that tab and then everything is lost, but atleast it will register all the items I claim going forward, so If had all those items available to "re-claim" I could have every item back

Edited Sunday at 02:50 AM by ghoul69

[nok1a]

On 2/15/2025 at 3:27 AM, ghoul69 said:

Hey guys, I want to modify the game files of a game, now the game is perfectly modifiable either by patching it with LP and getting free purchases or by simply modifying the values from GG

But my problem is, when I modify these values using file explorers like ES File Explorer and find the values of my Gems and edit them to 9999, and when I open the game, it somehow detects that I have done something and it resets my ID as if it is a new account and erases all my game data and starts from beginning , this doesn't happen when using LP or GG but through simple file editing it happens, I have even tried changing the modified time of the file back to the original when it was modified by the game, and it still recognises that I have done something and resets my progress 

Now, why I want to do it through file system is, I have a new ID and in the game files there are certain codes or numbers attached to game items and in order to get those old items in my new account or remove something from my account I thought to change the number in the files of the app, but whenever I try to change something my progress is reset, even I change something and then undo it and save the file to what exactly how it was before, the game still recognises I have done something and resets

So please help if there is a way to do this easily through GG, either by editing the files through GG so the game doesn't recognise it like it doesn't recognise when I edit the gems/coins directly 

Or tell me a method through GG by which I can claim or unclaim certain items of the game by finding out their address hex code or whatever 

https://gameguardian.net/forum/topic/37633-how-to-edit-keyvalues-of-xml-files-within-the-shared_ref-folder-using-gg/