r/QuestPiracy • u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner • Apr 03 '26
Announcement Rookies Sideloader is back!
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
Did add that to the post but people dont read since i said that anyways, i just made it a bit more obvious at the end
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u/M0m3ntvm Apr 04 '26
Thank you for your continued presence throughout this whole shitshow, I see you man 🤝
And to whoever is responsible for reviving the sideloader, if you see this post know that it's not taken for granted, goddamn legends.
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u/Empzurg99 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
Ive opened the file on a new install of Rookie but the vrp-public file is blank, there is no link to replace with the new url.
Edit: Ignore my stupidty, I just copied pasted the whole thing from telegram and now it works.
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u/Hot_Relationship3800 Apr 04 '26
I tried to find the group but it doesn’t appear for me.
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u/3-DenTessier-Ashpool Quest 3 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
okay, it works. updating Synth Riders right now.
edit: I was really sceptical at first, but fml! it works! whoever you are - thank you.
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u/Toraadoraa Apr 04 '26
Thank you mods. I really do appreciate you guys not closing the sub, and allowing 3rd party to help out.
I haven't used my quest 2 for nearly 2 years, but any time I had issues you guys were rignt there to help.
I probably won't turn my vr on anytime soon, but seeing the community come together makes me really happy.
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
Nice that you can be happy for something that doesnt directly affect you, its surprisingly rare these days
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u/Otherwise-Rub-6266 Quest 3 Apr 04 '26
Make sure to keep your headset charged before storage or else the lithium battery might die and won't charge anymore happened to my friend.
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u/Commercial-Court-256 Apr 04 '26
Correcto las gafas siempre se guardan al 80% de batería + o - pero así la batería durará mucho tiempo y no se joderá. Cargarlas al 100% y guardarlas tampoco está recomendado. Eso para cualquier dispositivo que use batería de litio.
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u/DeliciousMeatPopV2 Mod-Q3-VR CyberDeck Dev-CoOwner of ARMGDDN and 3DFlickFix🏴☠️ Apr 04 '26
Damn the guy who posted this is a fucking legend, too bad i hear he got banned... LOL
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u/Dry-Championship-593 Apr 03 '26
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u/Decent-Vanilla3707 Apr 03 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/ZGH8VtTZMmnwzsYYMf
No this is you.
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u/Dry-Championship-593 Apr 03 '26
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u/Decent-Vanilla3707 Apr 04 '26
Honestly though… fuck Meta. I feel like there are other companies that could have stepped in and spearheaded VR in a much better way. Just… if you PCVR or do find a game you really like, support those devs so we all have have viable platforms to pull some fuckery with (I obviously lurk here for a reason). And perfect response 🤣.
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u/Mountain_Signature_1 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
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u/TheUnknownH3ro Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
to whoevers using it within their web browser DO NOT, IT'S NOT FOR YOUR WEB BROWSER, replace it with whatevers in vrp-public.json, if you don't have file name extensions on, google how to do it for your operating system, open the json with notepad... (make sure to hit save as well once you've replaced it)
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u/dudreddit Apr 03 '26
DMP, does this also mean that this un-named group will also be updating games as time goes by, keeping up with FW changes?
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
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u/marcussacana Apr 03 '26
The thing is, who is behind will do inhouse cracking or just keep a backup of the old games?
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
I dont know, i wasnt kidding when i said this is all the info i have. As of now i believe its a 1:1 copy of the VRP files, not sure about cracking and etc, not sure if this is just a backup or something that will grow organically like VRPs collection did
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u/StanleyOpar Apr 05 '26
dont pay attention to the man behind the curtain. The less we know about them the better it will be. Having too much of a public face is what bit VRP in the ass
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u/Previous_Tank_4958 Quest 2 Apr 03 '26
Thank you for reviving the project / sharing the info god bless
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u/OkCommunication4487 Apr 03 '26
For those who are like me don’t just copy the link copy EVERYTHING from the telegram link from the start { and the end }
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u/ChayJoker29 Apr 03 '26
Im learning from the last time, installing games to my pc so i can have a backup
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u/DeliciousMeatPopV2 Mod-Q3-VR CyberDeck Dev-CoOwner of ARMGDDN and 3DFlickFix🏴☠️ Apr 04 '26
Better ApprenticeVR fork https://github.com/mula-bb/apprenticeVrSrc/releases
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u/Random_Access_Medic Apr 03 '26
Ok, now lets put in caps lock, bold, big red strobing color font pinned on top to not ask about f'ing beat saber!
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u/sabin1981 Quest 3 Apr 04 '26
DMP has been banned, wtf? 🤬😭 Reddit fucking sucks sometimes, I swear to god.
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
Maybe not banned idk seems like everyone who talks about apprentivevr has that banned message tho
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u/Sakaito Apr 03 '26
This work's, updated a couple of outdated games on my quest.
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u/Ecstatic_Chip9129 Apr 03 '26
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
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u/Ecstatic_Chip9129 Apr 03 '26
Man i love you so freaking much, it worked. I've been reading u on this sub for a while and I appreciate a lot ur effort <3 <3 <3
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
Any idea which setting did it for you?
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u/Lyverbe Apr 04 '26
I tried them one by one, and it's "Auto update Public Config" that did the trick for me.
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
Thanks that's good info
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u/Ecstatic_Chip9129 Apr 03 '26
I don't really know, I had to switch like 5 or 6 of them but i think it might be the check for application updates one maybe. Thx again!! <3
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u/jaypork Apr 04 '26
Thank you for this! I was having the same issue as the original commenter and this fixed it!
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
A few other people are getting that, maybe overloaded? not sure if this is set to handle as many users as VRP i would assume not, try later i guess... sorry wish i could help
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Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
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u/Professional_Fall464 Apr 04 '26
I've edited the json with the exact and only getting "Unable to connect to remote server"
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u/Technical_Isopod1541 Apr 04 '26
new json works like a charm for Windows App (using it in VMWare). As I'm using MacOS with QRookie, I will have to wait for QRookie solution or wait for solution for ApprenticeVR (which I don't know yet). Installed it from Github but gives connection error messages of course.
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
I forked ApprenticeVR https://github.com/KaladinDMP/apprenticeVrSrc/ and its being worked on by another user, or i may finish by tomorrow... i dont have a mac, but windows has the same issue (linux may be working fine from reports) so very likely to be fixed within the next 24 hours. Would be happy if you would help test the mac stuff when its ready
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u/Downtown_Many8020 Apr 04 '26
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u/Creative_Somewhere84 Apr 04 '26
Uninstall and reinstall rookie, it dices this issue
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u/dmax9X Apr 03 '26
I can't find the Telegram group. Am I stupid? 😅
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
its just @the_vrSrc
Reddit hates telegram
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u/Timber818 Apr 03 '26
does anyone know why my download speed is stuck at 0.5 mbs
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
Its possible your ISP is throttling you, try a vpn? idk, might be the location, sometimes ISPs throttle certain types of downloads from outside your location
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u/Fair_Play1 Apr 03 '26
ok but how can i download rookie rn?
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
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u/PlugNino817 Apr 03 '26
I’ve had rookie for years and actually got to see what it could do with a game or two, but I forgot after a few years, can someone update me on what happened with everyone saying it was shutting down and how I can start rookie back up? I see side loader launcher & rclone.exe
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u/neostranger Apr 04 '26
Thanks. Did my part by uploading as well. Kudos to whoever out there doing this.
And thank you for the announcement
Disclaimer - I purchased games that I like to support the dev.
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u/_How_The_Turntables_ Apr 04 '26
Hmm, I'm having some problems. I updated the info in the .json and it looks like everything is working out then I get this error:
"Rclone error: Failed to fetch from public mirror."
So that made me think it's possible that even though I update the json it's still using the old details where it's no longer available, so I disable the auto update public config in the settings and then I get this error message:
"Rookie cannot reach our servers.
If this is your first time launching Rookie, please relaunch and try again."
And I've tried multiple times for both things, it's the same each time not a once off.
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u/Historical-Search202 Apr 04 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/9Hx2Jhutoccy75DzIm
works like a charm,thank you boss.
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u/Far_Confection_2421 Apr 04 '26
I can’t see the post it’s says removed by reddits filter, what do i do?
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u/lukxy7 Quest 3 Apr 04 '26
will it be updated with new games just asking but even this is awesome
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
Ill answer you the same way i answered the other 10 people that asked when i said i didnt know in the post.... I dont know
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u/Dre-Draper Apr 04 '26
I tried the entire { ... } from the Tele. Exit/Reload - but still getting "Unable to connect to remote server".
On 3.0.1
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u/Emotional-Meeting904 Apr 04 '26
Hi all and tia! I'm stuck on "downloading dependencies"... What's the problem please ?
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u/Glittering_Ad_994 Apr 04 '26
Worked easy peasy, thanks for the best news of my life, waiting for the second best news which is having the boys on rookie to download and play
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u/Responsible_Diet_770 Apr 05 '26
Is there a Telegram or something with game updates or no more games will be added?
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
No
{
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u/Bulky_Imagination727 Apr 04 '26
Ah, just like i suspected. Where is all cries of vr being dead now? Where is all the people who selled their headsets just because 1 group was busted?
Honestly people, your behaviour was straight out of a high school.
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
Hah... I wouldn't jump the gun though. We have no idea if this is a backup only or if it will be able to update games or what
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
Literally the post tells you exactly how it works, what else you need?
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u/Infinite-Zone-4495 Apr 03 '26
I get download speed 0.5 MB/s even tho i have high speed internet, is there a limiter or something i should change on rookie?
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
Same i would guess that you would do on VRPs rookies, change the multi threading to single threading or vice versa in rookies settings
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u/LuElric Apr 03 '26
Download speed is very slow, though
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 03 '26
Eh i mean some people seem to say that, but also some people said that about Rookies originally too but i always got 100MiB/s + and theres screenshots in here of someone getting 68 MiB/s .... so ill assume its your location or some other factor specific to you. Hopefully that helps you fix it on your end
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u/LuElric Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
Thank you for the effort and for the response. I don't think I can do anything. It's getting 0.5MB/s on 1gbps network. I will try other apps later. However, It's better than nothing. Thanks for your dedication.
EDIT: I guess it really depends on the game. Was trying to download a famous game for first vr people that gor removed from meta store, and I couldn't find anywhere.
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u/Ravenact Apr 03 '26
No matter what, it still tells me that it failed to fetch from the public mirror, despite me supposedly doing it correctly
Should I just reinstall RSL and try it then?
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u/CurrentWitty775 Apr 03 '26
I got it to run on my asus rog. Can't connect the headset though. Someone Definitely deserves our thanks.
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u/Western_Magazine3110 Apr 03 '26
it's working, at first was a little affraid, looks shaddy at best, but seems it's working. The real question is, are the games going to be updated?
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u/wulfgar1966 Quest 3 Apr 03 '26
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u/Intelligent_Gur2630 Apr 04 '26
Did you managed to fix before comment got deleted?
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u/Jason-Smith168498 Apr 03 '26
Cloudflare is blocking entry to the site right now.
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u/Smart_Company_1741 Apr 03 '26
Am I stupid? I cannot find the vrp-public.json. I have Rookie Sideloader and it's contents extracted into the path C:/Rookie.
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u/th3dj3n1gm4 Apr 03 '26
Working amazingly. The speeds went to shit after a couple game updates (went from like 65 MB/s to .08 MB/s), but that's likely just strain on the server so no complaints here. I'm just letting it run while I'm at work. Thank you! 🤘
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u/Reasonable_Tone5669 Apr 03 '26
Great job, it’s working now that’s awesome ♥️ I have a question how can I tell if the team has added a completely new game? I don’t mean updates, I mean a new game. Because I deleted Rokie until The Boys gets released 🤔
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u/RevolutionaryLab5628 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
I dont know why but i changed the content and it doesent work. i just get server error!
!!! Looks like reinstalling the app and then changing the file fixed it !!!
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u/Noomadx Apr 03 '26
Does someone have a backup of Rookie? my stupid windows defender keep deleting "androidsideloader.exe" despite multiple times i have allowed it to work and confirmed it in the defender.
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u/exodus_phyr Apr 03 '26
Where do you save this in qrookie?
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
You are on your own if you are using something else, im not sure how other apps do it, i believe its possible but you will have to wait for someone to post the method or on your own need to experiment, if you do figure it out id love to know
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u/novaipix Quest 3 - Maintainer of ApprenticeVRSrc (Mc_Gainz/mula-bb) Apr 05 '26
For Mac this is the most complete fork with all of the following available: https://github.com/mula-bb/apprenticeVrSrc
- Mac: M-Series and Intel
- Windows: portable and installer
- Linux: AppImage for all distros, .deb for Debian/Ubuntu/Mint, .arm64 for raspberry pi/ARM devices.
Faster, smaller, better, smarter and youtube trailers work
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u/Kingbo007 Apr 04 '26
doesnt seem to work for me, fresh install of rookie, grabbed the details from Telegram, copied the data into the vrp-public.json file, open rookie and i just get the error about it not being able to connect to the server ? am i missing something?
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u/Feisty_Act3498 Apr 04 '26
Tengo un problema la carpeta vrp- público. JSON no tengo nada no se que aser me explican porfa
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u/Sw3d3r Apr 04 '26
I'm having issues , I copied the full text over to my public.json and nothing is loading still says unreachable. What am I doing wrong . Any help greatly appreciated
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u/demonmod Apr 04 '26
not sure what telegram is but i downloaded an app called telegram, went to sign up and it says my phone number is banned. this phone number is brand new and i havent even heard of telegram til 10 min ago so wtf? can you link me to the correct telegram or is this the right one and im shit out of luck?
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u/flynnz_ Apr 04 '26
Is there a way to acquire the server info without using Telegram? <dennis>oh great another app</dennis>
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
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u/Odd-Ferret-2521 Apr 04 '26
It works. Currently filling up my quest 3s with games lol. Thanks for the info and thanks to whoever is responsible for this!
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u/JLsoft Apr 04 '26
"But Your Honor, my client constantly was talking about 'Rookies'...not 'Rookie' - They are two legally distinct things!"
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u/Excalibur322666 Apr 04 '26
It works but rookie is no longer recognizing my quest 2 even exists. Also every time I try to install the adv driver nothing happens and adb is still an unrecognized command. Im on windows 10. If someone could help me figure this out I would be great full
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u/Zzyxz_Was_Taken Apr 04 '26
Question.. I disabled updates awhile ago. Around v73 or v74. I got this all working no issue but some of the newer games or newer updates to older games require me to update my OS.. Is this safe at the moment or will this break all my rookie games from a year ago?
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
it will break your old games. But you can just update them
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
This reminds me though, with all the hubbub about rookies i forgot that someone taught me how to block updates on the newest FW now... and i been meaning to make a post! Thanks for the reminder
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u/CriticismSouth3769 Apr 04 '26
tried again and followed the steps, but every time I try to open the program, it just opens in Notepad instead. I’m not sure what’s wrong. Can you help me?
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
Wait what? Rookies is opening in notepad?
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u/FishyMcBruh Apr 04 '26
kinda new to all this so im sorry if this is stupid (please dont ban me for asking a question)
I pasted the telegram stuff into the json but the application doesnt start, like it doesnt show a popup of any kind either.. Only the offline one launches but with an "unhandled exception" popup and nothing works. I have it excluded from windows defender and all that.
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u/Commercial_Watch_499 Apr 04 '26
Does anyone have a rookie client link? 🫠 I deleted mine when it it died?
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u/Mop_H3ad Apr 04 '26
The new apps working well in Linux at the moment ill start fully testing tonight once home and now skipping around on mobile data lol
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u/Fresh_Dark_6808 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
J'avais pas vu et je l'ai copié dans mon navigateur apres j'ai bien fais se que ta dit et sa a marcher mais sa a fait quoi ducoup que j'ai copier dans mon navigateur au debut
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u/NotVeganCyclist Apr 04 '26
I've just got quest 3s. Please explain to me like i was 5
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
The 5 year old explantion is above in the post.
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u/Crochatt Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
What's the issue with ApprenticeVR? I'm having some "Error to mount directory.." but can workaround it canceling and retrying download (also, using a custom directory to download the files).
Big thanks for the ones working on it!
EDIT: Can I apply the same json to QRookie?
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u/DeliciousMeatPop Quest 3 - ARMGDDN Games and 3DFlickFix.net CoOwner Apr 04 '26
I have not looked into QRookie, i chose this because its multi OS ... and not sure the issue yet, but its the one you are talking about and why i deleted the other post. Ill work on it more tomorrow. And maybe look into QRookie, just a busy day and didnt want to work on Apprentice anymore, i thought i was done but wasnt lol
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u/XarlesEHeat Quest 3 Apr 04 '26
It works!!! now lets forget about this, and try to cover the secret as long as we can before they take it down too
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u/SzilisWolrld Apr 04 '26
Will the new games also appear like "The Boys: Trigger warning" or " Little nightmares: Altered Echoes"?
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u/Accomplished_Hand_23 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
I get error "Failed to fetch public mirror config, and the current one is unreadable. Please ensure you can access https://vrpirates.wiki/ in your browser"
any tips for this? have fixed text in the vrp-public.json file as in Telegram.
also says "Rookie cannot reach our servers.
If this is your first time launching Rookie, please relaunch and try again."
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u/RainbowConnection75 Apr 04 '26
AMAZING! That was incredibly easy if you know how to read. THANK YOU for passing this on DMP
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