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Scenarios on Android#

As of v9 of Student Transfer, the game now supports playing scenarios on Android with feature parity with the desktop version.

Prerequisites#

When the game asked you for file access, you granted it permission. Without this, the game is unable to read and install scenarios.

Installing Scenarios on Android#

Installing a scenario is easy: Simply download a compatible ZIP file from a source of your choosing (most likely the TFGS forums or the Discord server).

Inside the game, go into the Scenario Mode menu and press the Install Scen. button. This will pop up a file selector which you may use to select the ZIP file of the scenario you've downloaded. You can abort the file picker by using the 'back' gesture or button as usual, though be aware that the game may take a few seconds to switch you back to the main menu. This is expected behavior for the time being.

After selecting a scenario ZIP file and confirming the selection, the game will take care of installing it for you.

You don't need to do anything else but wait until this process is complete. The game may restart to fully load the new scenario.

After this is done, the new scenario will appear in the list of installed scenarios, ready for you to play.

Caveats#

The previous (manual) way of installing scenarios is no longer supported due to causing sometimes severe compatibility issues. This means there is no longer a need to manually extract and shuffle files around, especially in light of Google restricting access to the required directories more and more.

The downside of this new approach is that scenarios can now only be managed through the game directly. This is typically not an issue, excepting cases where an installed scenario breaks the game such that it can not start up properly anymore. In these cases, the only way to recover is to reinstall the game. We'll investigate ways to resolve this drawback in the future, but due to the way Android handles things, this is difficult.

Because of the above, please take care that you:

  • Install custom scenarios only after you've played through the main story content and either backed up your saves (using the Cloud Sync feature) or don't care about save stability anymore.
  • Don't install too many scenarios at once, as this can balloon resource usage, causing out of memory issues (in which case Android may opt to kill the game).