VB Helper - Replacement app for VB Arena

[sharp nova]

https://github.com/457R0/VitalWear/

[sharp nova]

Okay, so I installed 457R0's VB Helper fork on my phone. Imported the VB Arena APK. That worked fine. But imported a BIN file, immediate crash.

Same thing happens with the companion app for the VitalWear fork as I reported in the VitalWear channel, and as I also noted there importing the BIN files works fine on the companion app for the main fork of VitalWear. Importing the firmware to 457R0's fork of VitalWear also worked fine. So I know it isn't an issue with my BIN files.

Looks up and notices the detail with the whole Java thing

...oh dear.

Would updating my phone's firmware fix that?

Perhaps not, there's no firmware update for my phone

[atomic rover]

Hm, cant seem to transfer to VBH. Got to the screen that says device id and rescan on the watch, and to the transfer part on the app too, and get this outcome when scanning (character is awake, and the BEM is registered on both the app and watch).

my package updated fine with vitalwear already installed beforehand. Going to appinfo shows the newest snapshot version.

I updated via WearLoad.

[atomic rover]

Decided to uninstall/reinstall, now cant load firmware lol stalls at 2% and fails.

[atomic rover]

Got it working

[sacred locust]

Everything seems to be working on my end now as well. It seems you have to tap the screen when evolving to make it go through on my Pixel watch 4

[vernal briar]

Using it with vitalwear has worked for me, although sometimes I have to cancel the whole thing and start over because it doesnt recognize the dim on the app

[atomic rover]

Do items like All Training just not work rn?

Was training up a few so I can do adventure mode for Loogamon bem

[sacred locust]

Not on VW at the moment

The timer doesn't go down. But when I transferred to my BE, it works

[atomic rover]

Ah, so its a VW issue then

Likely since it uses firmware 1.0.B

instead of the version which added items.

Hopefully VitalWear can support the newer firmware sometime then, so items can be usable.

[vernal briar]

Im really confused whats going on with these battles (like what's going happening and when)

[atomic rover]

Do u have an active mon?

If not then thats why the opponent always wins there Id assume.

Its just the VB Lab battle system and is in testing/alpha, so its super simplified compared to the VB Arena version.

because mine has HP

[atomic rover]

Duplicated mon somehow during transfer guess ill make a backup incase it deletes

[vernal briar]

This happened to me earlier as well! I just deleted the copy

[vernal briar]

At the time my active mon was a brown seadramon from the abyssal horror custom dim

[atomic rover]

Personally, Im gonna keep the copy just bc its less time taken to make another Fenriloogamon and get its Mega Jogress, because its pretty lengthy to get more than 1 of them lol.

Hopefully we get raids back one day through VBHelper

[vernal briar]

I was never around for the old apps so that would be really cool

[atomic rover]

Raids were very fun

Im glad pvp alone is returning SoonTM

Finally got my watch screenshots working again too. Hopefully one day the Training items work but we need the firmware which added that to the watch, but at least vitals and next timer work on VBHelper.

[vernal briar]

I thought it was already implemented and thats what the battle tab is?

[atomic rover]

Its implemented yes, but iirc its still being worked on to improve it?

I still have to figure out how to get the sprites to work

because lol

[vernal briar]

I got it to let me battle once and thats how it looked for me

[atomic rover]

Supposedly u can add the sprites tho

just dont know how

[stable moth]

Look at previous messages, all the steps are in this chat.
You have to use two programs to extract the content for the battle

[atomic rover]

Do u have a link to the steps? cant search forum topics on mobile. Unless its pinned.

[vernal briar]

I scrolling and looking and I see people talking about it but no instructions

[stable moth]

Aquí está. Te recomiendo copiar y pegar cada carpeta y cersiorarse de que tenga el mismo número de elementos que lo que extraes (lo que figura en la PC)

[gusty cloak]

@limber inlet I have a request: Would it be possible in the future to import the data required for online battles as a single consolidated file?
It’s not just the time it takes to transfer data to my smartphone—there are actually some issues unrelated to the app itself…
I use a Galaxy smartphone, and the standard photo viewer app doesn’t allow me to exclude specific directories from loading via settings—it only lets me hide folders one by one.
Since it’s not practical to manually hide such a large number of folders, I would appreciate it if you could consider implementing this feature in a future update.

[limber inlet]

there's probably a way to copy it as a ZIP and have the app unzip it, but if it didn't delete the files after that, i think we'd be right back where we are.

maybe it can still just unzip the ZIP file and then copy them into a hidden folder instead so you don't have to manually hide them at least?

i'll see if the team has any ideas as well.

[rough shard]

It really makes me happy to see my work here.

[vernal briar]

Its actually my favorite dim, seadramon is one of my favorites

[rough shard]

Seadramon (Brown) (Digimon World 3)

[vernal briar]

Im trying to do the online battles and it keeps saying "authentication failed: time out"

[limber inlet]

give it another try when you get a chance please!

[stable moth]

I'm having this message

[fickle knot]

Alguen hizo un CIM de Jump Ultimate Stars? Me pasas el CIM?

[limber inlet]

do you currently have an active mon that you've imported?

[vernal briar]

Al good now

[stable moth]

como sabes que la tengo? XD

déjame ver como te la paso, no sé usar mucho discord

[stable moth]

yes, I'm having problems recently, just yesterday trying to help seele

I didn't try today

[limber inlet]

no rush! there's still bugs that need to be fixed, so you may encounter them.

we're working to coordinate all of that. we haven't had any actual bugfix releases in a while.

[stable moth]

yes please a new update. Actually I sent all my BEM to the app and still sending VB dims. I hope you guys can release a version that standardizes the data import process between versions

[limber inlet]

i believe there's a proof of concept that works for that from vitalwear, so we should be able to do that!

we'll keep info about updates coming as we make progress. we are working on things on the backend.

[atomic rover]

30 ≠ 10

XD

its +10 but says 30 below

[undone charm]

Lol, my bad

[tropic solar]

Guys, I have a question

Do you know if it's possible to convert the VS Memory to update the VBBe system?

[autumn fjord]

that would require the vbbe even have had support for a vs dim or vs bem

or do you mean like updating from 1.0.A/B to 2.0.A... cause which case... maybe that's possible... but FWIW it's just easier to use a microsd card

[gusty tiger]

Vb helper ir ready for Connect to vital wear yet? Thank

[atomic rover]

Yes

[atomic rover]

it works with Vitalwear now yeah

[atomic rover]

Hopefully oneday well get the v2.0.A as we cant really do the Training items otherwise I dont think?

Training takes too long again and its kinda annoying but at least theres no rush to finish in the 100hrs due to the timer increase items

So its not too big a deal

[autumn fjord]

2.0.A released years ago...

or am i misunderstanding what you mean by that

[atomic rover]

Whichever firmware added the items

We use 1.0.B rn

so thats likely it then just no implemented on vitalwear items

[autumn fjord]

i was not referring to vital wear. i wasn't aware you meant to bring me along into the VW discussion

[atomic rover]

Well u brought up firmware

XD

[autumn fjord]

i did not bring up VW

[atomic rover]

never said u did

firmware ≠ vitalwear

[autumn fjord]

right, but i dont know where the VW part came from... seemed unrelated..

[tropic solar]

The second

[stable moth]

Estoy teniendo problemas con tu versión 0.6.3 lightheel. Me aparece un mensaje de "Whoops Tag Lost". No pierdo digimons si presiono rápido el botón para recibir nuevamente desde la pulsera si tardo es pérdida segura

[hasty pawn]

Actually, the plural of Digimon is k̶̓̆o̶͐̅n̸̊͘g̸̿͘k̸̂̊u̸̓̅n̸̈́̑n̵͗͝k̸̃͑g̷̒̈́k̵̇͠ő̵͓.

[gusty tiger]

How do you do it, or which version are you using? I downloaded the latest ones (or at least I think I did), and it won’t let me transfer them 🙁 Thanks.

[hasty pawn]

Gave +1 Digi-rep to @atomic rover (current: #599 - 2)

[gusty tiger]

I have the version of Vital Wear that shows the VBHelper icon. When I tap “transfer to VBHelper” and touch my phone with NFC, absolutely nothing happens — neither on the phone nor on the Vital Wear.

[west terrace]

https://github.com/457R0/VitalWear/

This version/fork of Vital Wear has been updated to work with VB Helper.

[gusty tiger]

I think I have that version installed, but it’s still not working...

[red knot]

Trying to set stuff up with the homebrew app, but the 'app to vital bracelet' button is greyed out and wont let me select it- any idea what ive done wrong? XD tried searching some keywords and links here but cant find the issue.

I saw above its specific to the BE version (which I have) but do we have any resolution yet?

[sharp nova]

Did you import the VB Arena APK?

[red knot]

I did the import secrets from com.bandai yup

[sharp nova]

Hmmmm

Did you import any BIN files?

If the answer to that question is yes then I can't help you any further as the app crashes on my phone when importing BIN files

[red knot]

Yup I imported the dorumon bin and another, it showed as successful but I can't move it from app to bracelet cus the button isn't active

[rare saffron]

SHINKA!

@red knot has evolved into Baby I!

[red knot]

Appreciate you trying to help though 🙂

[whole kestrel]

solo un comentario lo que pasa con el nfc , por el momento si cambian de dispositivo con la copia de seguridad no es mas facil que pasarlo de 1 en 1 y por el momento es una solucion en caso de cambio de dispositivo

[atomic rover]

lol interesting

can go into negative credits as long as u were positive before the item u bought

[gusty cloak]

I’m sorry for the delayed response,
but I managed to hide the photos in a hidden folder so they don’t show up in the Photos app.
I didn’t fully understand how hidden folders work on Android, but I gave it a try and it worked.
Thank you!

[hasty pawn]

Gave +1 Digi-rep to @limber inlet (current: #112 - 22)

[fleet grail]

Anyone else having problems transferring mons back to VitalWear app?

[waxen geyser]

Keep getting an error on the online battle, it says Authentication Failed timeout

[stable moth]

Yes, there is a problem 🤔 I'm having the same message

[waxen geyser]

Followed the instructions but doesn't seem to work for me

[stable moth]

It usually work. I think it's a problem of the server

Let's be patient, it will surely be resolved later

[waxen geyser]

Hope so, I tried earlier today but wasn't working then either, might be a glitch

@undone charm is it a known issue atm?

[waxen geyser]

Do you happen to know how we get the secrets file from the APK, trying to install on my tablet too but can't remember how I got it

Nm I worked it out, had to use file management to create a copy of the APK file

[undone charm]

That should be @limber inlet part, I don't know much how online battles are going

[limber inlet]

give it another try please when you get a chance.

it should be back up now

[waxen geyser]

Seems to be working now

[waxen geyser]

Sorry about that, I get mixed up with names

[undone charm]

nah no worries

[molten zephyr]

heya how are things going?

anything new?

[undone charm]

We are getting ready to merge all different lines of work

[undone charm]

I was packing something, gonna start merging stuff now

[vernal leaf]

this is exciting

[rare saffron]

@vernal leaf has leveled up! (0 ➜ 1)

SHINKA!

@vernal leaf has evolved into Baby I!

[vernal leaf]

thanks a lot for all the work

[whole kestrel]

Ya van a sacar una versión fusionada se los 3? Que enocion

[undone charm]

Si

[waxen geyser]

Ohhh what's been merged? 😄

[undone charm]

the main version of the app, battles and VitalWear compatibility

all in the same app

[red knot]

oh neat! i was having issues with connecting with my BE with the button for app to VB not being selectable, was that resolved in any of the merges/changes?

[undone charm]

Read the README in the repo

You need vb arena to make it work

[woven zealot]

it means we can play battle with others in next version?

[red knot]

Ah I tried going through all that but no luck, im guessing its the anti piracy measure cus i dont have a digimon BEM card yet. they got scalped to high heaven here @.@ was hoping if i grabbed the Tokyo Revengers watch id eventually find some at sane prices haha

[limber inlet]

not directly quite yet. you can battle AI versions of other people's digis with this version

we still need to add direct PVP and co-op PVE raids

[molten zephyr]

fair but LETS GOO

it's getting added at some point

[waxen geyser]

Coop PVE will be awesome!

[whole kestrel]

estoy muy emocionado

[atomic rover]

How far off do u think raids would be? No rush, but honestly one of things Ive been most waiting for lol.

I still need time to train up some and bank some credits for buying Vital items anyways :p

[haughty gorge]

I haven't been around for months but I busted out my VB for a vacation and remembered this existed. Glad it's still going!

[limber inlet]

probably a few months at the latest. a few weeks at the soonest. i'm focusing on some bugfixes first, so it really just depends on how much time that takes. if the fixes are quick, i can move on faster

[atomic rover]

All good. No rush. Whenever u can get it out is fine.

Just excited to finally have some content soontm

I still need to setup the sprites to work in the battlemode. I cant find the guide to do it and I cant search for it in threads on discord due to having an outdated client lol.

Are u thinking on planning to tune the raids for BEs/have them seperated from VB mons? Or just not count Training +999 for example to keep things somewhat fair if its online raids with supports?

Also curious if theres an eventual plan for leaderboards on raids as itd be cool to see again.

[limber inlet]

i assure you progress is happening! it's a priority for us to get this expanded on and fixed up.

https://github.com/lightheel/vb-helper-sprite-extractor
https://github.com/lightheel/vb-helper-data-extractor

these will get you the sprites you'll need. you can do them in either order really

[limber inlet]

we'll have to test the raids to figure out what feels best i think. we hadn't gotten that far yet, but it's definitely something that is good to consider for balancing.

some backend metrics that let us check which mons are used most or effective, etc could be nice for figuring that out

i think the leaderboards are a really nice part of the raids. it can help it feel like more of a collective effort. i'm not sure if it'll be there right away when raids are ready.

all the sprites for the raid bosses are available though so they can all be fought eventually 🙂

[worn forge]

do still wonder if there's a way to get stats to show as they (kinda) would be on chars from custom dims instead of pulling from whatever slot there may or may not be on the base dim

[atomic rover]

Sounds good. Hopefully the Raids can come SoonTM!

[polar sail]

Does this thing still do a total reset every time there's an update?

[undone charm]

I haven't done one in a while, but I want first to merge everything together before further replies to this topic