Help/Support Episode: Reverse Engineering Question

Bryan Mills · August 25

Hey, I have spent a long time looking through the binary of Episode.

I was able to fix the sideload crash, so I tried enabling the DEBUG (quality assurance) menu.

I tried patching everything you can think of in the main binary, as well as the IL2CPP dumped UnityFramework binary, even though the Debug Menu strings are inside the main app binary (not Unity, most likely Cocos2d-x).

So after such a long time digging and trying everything I could, I am reaching out to ask @Laxus or @Zahir, whoever manages the crack now, to please give me a tip on where I should look.

That could be telling me which binary I should look into, what the debug flag is (e.g. isDebugDevice, etc.) and where it is checked or anything else. I would not ask if I did not try extensivly do figure it out myself.

All the best,

Bryan

Bryan Mills · August 28

@LaxusPlease have a look!

Laxus · August 30

On 8/26/2025 at 5:11 AM, Bryan Mills said:

Hey, I have spent a long time looking through the binary of Episode.

I was able to fix the sideload crash, so I tried enabling the DEBUG (quality assurance) menu.

I tried patching everything you can think of in the main binary, as well as the IL2CPP dumped UnityFramework binary, even though the Debug Menu strings are inside the main app binary (not Unity, most likely Cocos2d-x).

So after such a long time digging and trying everything I could, I am reaching out to ask @Laxus or @Zahir, whoever manages the crack now, to please give me a tip on where I should look.

That could be telling me which binary I should look into, what the debug flag is (e.g. isDebugDevice, etc.) and where it is checked or anything else. I would not ask if I did not try extensivly do figure it out myself.

All the best,

Bryan

The game is no Unity so you cannot patch UnityFramework, everything I modified is in main binary which is episode-x, I modded it use strings method, digging around and you can find lot of useful stuffs

Bryan Mills · September 14

On 8/30/2025 at 6:23 AM, Laxus said:

The game is no Unity so you cannot patch UnityFramework, everything I modified is in main binary which is episode-x, I modded it use strings method, digging around and you can find lot of useful stuffs

You are right. That's what I figured, too. I spent numerous more hours trying to figure it out.

I believe I found the function that creates and initializes the debug menu, but I could not figure out what the gatekeeper is. (isDebugEnabled or whatever)
I jailbroke my phone, poked the app with dynamic debugging, and LLDB
I decrypted the original old version and compared it with the same already patched version, which did not help
I replaced the original binary with yours, removed the added tweaks and frameworks, and the patch still worked. That's why I tried comparing, but it led nowhere.
I tried everything you can think of.

Could you PLEASE share with me a helpful tip, clue, or hint that would point me in the right direction?

Whether that be in a DM or here. Anything, a specific string, a function, or whatever else you can think of.
I would really appreciate that.

@Laxus

Laxus · September 14

17 minutes ago, Bryan Mills said:

You are right. That's what I figured, too. I spent numerous more hours trying to figure it out.

I believe I found the function that creates and initializes the debug menu, but I could not figure out what the gatekeeper is. (isDebugEnabled or whatever)

I jailbroke my phone, poked the app with dynamic debugging, and LLDB

I decrypted the original old version and compared it with the same already patched version, which did not help

I replaced the original binary with yours, removed the added tweaks and frameworks, and the patch still worked. That's why I tried comparing, but it led nowhere.

I tried everything you can think of.

Could you PLEASE share with me a helpful tip, clue, or hint that would point me in the right direction?

Whether that be in a DM or here. Anything, a specific string, a function, or whatever else you can think of.
I would really appreciate that.

@Laxus

Sorry I cannot share the offset to patch since it not my cheat, I only keeping it updated

From what I can say is you need to do string Search (Shift + F12) in IDA, search for anything related to the things you want to mod then dig around you will find it eventually

Bryan Mills · September 14

1 hour ago, Laxus said:

Sorry I cannot share the offset to patch since it not my cheat, I only keeping it updated

From what I can say is you need to do string Search (Shift + F12) in IDA, search for anything related to the things you want to mod then dig around you will find it eventually

Is there anyway I can ask the original creator of the patch?

Or if you really have any other hint, even the slightest clue would be appreciated.

Laxus · September 14

1 hour ago, Bryan Mills said:

Is there anyway I can ask the original creator of the patch?

Or if you really have any other hint, even the slightest clue would be appreciated.

Try searching for these: debug, debugmenu, menu, admin, console, panel

Bryan Mills · September 29

On 9/14/2025 at 9:41 AM, Laxus said:

Try searching for these: debug, debugmenu, menu, admin, console, panel

@Laxus I totally get it. It is not your patch to share. The debug menu is a vip feature, so that's fine.

But can you please tell me how you froze the passes (tickets)? There are no relevant strings I could find that would freeze the tickets.

I'd really appriciate it,

Bryan

Updated September 29 by Bryan Mills

Bryan Mills · October 3

On 9/29/2025 at 11:13 PM, Bryan Mills said:

@Laxus I totally get it. It is not your patch to share. The debug menu is a vip feature, so that's fine.

But can you please tell me how you froze the passes (tickets)? There are no relevant strings I could find that would freeze the tickets.

I'd really appriciate it,

Bryan

@Laxus Following up.