How to Hack Alto's Odyssey

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Alto’s Odyssey is the sandboarding sequel to Alto’s Adventure, published on Android by Noodlecake and past 10 million downloads on Google Play. The coins you pick up on the dunes pay for the Workshop’s upgrades and the wingsuit, and they sit in the game’s playerprefs file as one plain number. My first run brought in 46. One edit later the Workshop said 999,999.

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1. 1

   Play a run, then tap Home and open the Workshop. Your coins are in its bottom right corner.

2. 2

   Open CheatDroid, allow root, and tap Alto’s Odyssey in the app list. There is one file under Shared preferences, com.noodlecake.altosodyssey.v2.playerprefs.xml. Open it, and if CheatDroid says the game is running, tap Force stop.

   

3. 3

   The file has 154 keys, 13 of them with coin in the name. Search for Save.StatProfile.coins, tap it, type 999999 and tap Save.

   

4. 4

   Start Alto’s Odyssey and open the Workshop again: 999,999.

5. 5

   Spend some to be sure. The Magnet Timer’s first level is 250 coins, which left me 999,749, and that number was still there after a restart.

   

What else I found

• The key is there from the first start, at 0, so you can set it before your first run.
• Leave bestTotalScore alone. That’s your high score, and it goes to the leaderboard.
• It runs offline. A run started fine in airplane mode.
• Tested on version 1.0.42.

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