Getting Papa Sangre and Other Something Else Games to Run

We were just talking about these old games on Mastodon the other day. Amazing tyhat you have them all. Speaking of, there is a program called IMazing that might do the trick. It does have accessibility issues, but was workable a few years back anyway. https://imazing.com/

Use alt store or similar. Another option, assuming you have a developer account you should be able to sign them with xcode and push them to your device, but i'm not sure on this last one. As far as running them though...
Audio defense if memory serves will run. Papa sangre 2, i'm honestly unsure, last time I tried it, it opens then crashes, so that's probably a no. The nightjar and papa sangre 1, i'm pretty sure at least last time I tested it, they won't run as these are 32bit games, if memory serves, unless someone ported them to 64bit but I don't think this is the case; at least not as far as I know.

If you had an older model Intel Mac, and an older model iPhone, let's say an iPhone 5, for example, or possibly even a 4S, you could put the IPAs on your Mac through iTunes, and load those onto an iPhone and the same way you would load a backup from iTunes on your Mac to an iPhone. This is how it used to be, I don't know if this is even possible anymore, even with the older hardware/software.

Is the iPhone 6 64 bit, or 32?

The iPhone 6 was 64bit according to Apple.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/111954

Grab an old iPhone with like iOS 10 or 12 and load the ipas on to the phone with Sideloadly. Instructions are on their website.

And any ipa files for that matter?

In the acase of the above, i've seen them in the ios apps internet archive.

If the phone still works, then I will really try this particular game.
Have you found other ipa like 6th sense, where is my rubber ducky and etc? Those were fun games too.
But I didn't buy papa sangre back then... My chances seem very low?

Hi all,

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Thanks,

Michael

I installed Papa Sangre II and Audio Defence on two devices (one running iOS 14 and the other running iOS 16). Unfortunately, on the device running iOS 16, there were playback-speed issues (playing the audio assets at 48 kHz instead of 44.1 kHz), which can mess up timing depending on the length of, say, a cutscene.

While open-source alternatives exist to sideload apps, the method I most recently used was Sideloadly. Backing up IPAs still available on the App Store can be done with tools such as IPATool. This used to be available natively in iTunes, so I figure it's safe to mention.

For historical purposes, here are pages from the App Store archived on the Wayback Machine, version and release information, and a link to a playthrough on YouTube for each Somethin' Else game:

• Papa Sangre:
  • Updated: Feb 17, 2016
  • Version: 1.3
  • Playthrough
• Papa Sangre II:
  • Updated: Nov 30, 2015
  • Version: 1.13
  • Playthrough
• The Nightjar:
  • Updated: Feb 17, 2016
  • Version: 1.3
  • Playthrough
• Audio Defence: Zombie Arena:
  • Updated: May 19, 2015
  • Version: 1.1
  • Playthrough

The Night Jar was voice acted by Benedict Cumberbatch, Star Trek: Into Darkness and Avengers Endgame, and Papa Sangre 2 was voice acted by Sean Bean, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Game of Thrones series. The acting and audio quality was fantastic on these old games, and I hope more games will be designed and/or reproduced in the near future with the same overall quality and attention to detail. 🙂 .