How to Hack Bus Fever Party!

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Bus Fever Party! is Lumi Games’ bus jam puzzle, past 10 million downloads on Google Play. Coins buy the extra parking spots and boosters you need once the jams get tight, and the game saves them in a small binary file in its Android/data folder. CheatDroid’s hex editor can search that file for the number you see in the game, and it writes the new one for you. I went from 120 to 999,999.

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   Play the first level, which pays 20 coins on top of the 100 you start with. To see the balance, tap one of the green + parking spots: the counter is in the top left of that screen. Mine said 120.

2. 2

   Open CheatDroid, allow root and tap Bus Fever Party!. Tap the search icon, type InventoryArchive and open InventoryArchive.sav from Android/data. Tap Force stop, then Hex editor, because the file isn’t text.

   

3. 3

   Tap the search icon and type your coins. For my 120 the strip says 1 of 1, 32-bit little-endian, and the bytes it highlights come right after the word Count in the text column.

   

4. 4

   Tap 32 LE 120 under the rows, type 999999 and tap Set value. Close the search with the X and tap the check mark to write the file.

   

5. 5

   Start the game and tap a + spot again. The counter says 999999.

6. 6

   I paid the 600 for that spot. The file held 999,399 afterwards, and the game showed 999399 after a restart.

   

What else I found

• Only numbers you set this way keep the file’s length, which it has to keep. Don’t use the +byte key.
• Needs CheatDroid 4.2.1 or newer for the number search and Set value. Saving in the hex editor needs Pro.
• It runs offline, and every level is yours alone.
• Tested on version 1.2.9.

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