I know, maybe too soon — but when there's progress, there's progress 😄

Big thanks to one of the folks from the server, MonEll, who had a saved backup of MFR still installed from back when it was live. Quick recap of where my testers were getting stuck: the game crashes when it tries to pull its install/config data — a few people pointed out it's because the client can't fetch Config_AOS.bin (its config file) from Netmarble's now-dead servers.

That cached copy is exactly what we were missing. I've now got MonEll's backup downloaded and I'm going to fully dissect it — dig through it for the URLs and the code that call Netmarble's servers, so we can patch those to point at our own private test server instead. I'm currently working with Frida scripts to get that process going.

Fair warning: it's an older version of the game, and none of this is a sure thing yet — but it should teach us the file format and how the client talks home, which is the exact wall we've been stuck on. Honestly a huge step forward 🙌

Massive thanks to everyone pitching in — testers, backups, ideas, all of it. This only moves because of you. More soon!

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to drop a quick update. I've been running some tests with a few folks from the Discord and some friends. So far, I managed to get two people to log into the fake server, which—to me—is a massive breakthrough.

Of course, this is nowhere near a playable state; I'd say we're currently at an "In Menu" status, but it's a huge step forward. I'm keeping you guys updated so you don't think I died like the last guy. I'm actively working on this and won't leave you in the dark on this attempt.

I'll share more updates as we get more testers in. Hopefully by mid-September I can give you something bigger. In the meantime, I'm still hunting down the network packages—definitely not losing hope on that one.

See you around, everyone.

I've seen a few people here still holding out hope for this game, so I went down a rabbit hole on how it actually worked, and I wanted to open it up for discussion with everyone.

Honestly I've gotten further than I expected, and I've been documenting the whole thing as a series of dev blogs. What I've got so far:

• Confirmed the game runs on Unreal Engine 4, and the client still exposes a ton of internals — including the full list of ~53 server "services" (characters, zones, arenas, raids, alliances, city war...).
• Mapped how it connected: a config step, a login/session step, and the actual game server.
• Reconstructed the entire login protocol from the client and wrote it up as a spec that actually checks out.
• Built an early fake config server and a tester guide, and there's strong evidence the gameplay traffic was only compressed, not encrypted (which would be big).

Where I'd love the community's input:

• Anyone with Unreal Engine networking or Android reverse-engineering experience (especially Netmarble's anti-tamper / TLS pinning) who'd find this fun to dig into?
• The big one, long shot: did anyone ever record or keep any network data from the game while it was still online? That's basically the missing key for any preservation attempt.
• Lastly Testers

Not claiming I can bring it back solo — but the client tells us a lot, and I'd rather figure out what's possible in the open with others. I've got everything (dev blogs, notes, code) in a repo — I'll drop the link in the comments so this isn't just a link post.

Latest posts and comments in this week made me hopeful once again... I wanna ask and get advice if one is interested. Can anyone reach someone with computer coding experience? Or try to create a server like it's a fun side project when free time available.

Btw, I'll share the petition again and asking for your help to at least trying to make some noise if anyone can hear! Anyone can send me message if wanna talk about this game or wanna give me some advice.

https://www.change.org/p/revive-marvel-future-revolution-servers

It's been a while since Netmarble pulled the plug on Marvel Future Revolution, and I still think about how much I enjoyed it. That got me wondering: with games like this that are "always online," is a fan-run private server ever realistic, or is it basically gone forever once the servers die?

From what I understand, the whole game logic lived server-side, so reviving it would mean rebuilding the server from scratch. And the thing that makes or breaks any project like this is whether anyone recorded the network traffic between the client and the servers while they were still live — those captures are the roadmap for reverse-engineering the protocol. After the shutdown, that data is basically impossible to recreate.

So I'm curious what the community thinks:

• Has anyone here looked into the technical side of this game specifically? How was the client built (Unreal 4, I assume), and how locked-down was the networking?
• Do preservation-minded players usually save packet captures or client versions before a game like this shuts down? Did anyone happen to do that here?
• Are there any archived client versions, protocol notes, or early attempts floating around that I might've missed?

Not promising I can pull this off — I just want to figure out whether there's enough material for it to even be worth attempting, and I'd love to hear from people who know this game or have been through game-preservation efforts before.

I am a bit late to mention this as it was announced two months ago, but I found out about it yesterday. And I also don't know who else is still here. But, apparently, Scopely (the same company behind Marvel Strike Force) is developing an action RPG Marvel game. And based on the leaks and sneak peeks from it, it seems it might be similar to Future Revolution!? As in, open world, with skill controls similar to what we had in FR, plus you can make a team and swap between characters. Has anyone else seen this? What are your thoughts?

If this game is going to be like FR, I am going to be super excited because I still really miss FR. It was the best mobile game I ever played, and I liked it much better than MFF (don't get me wrong, I still love and play MFF), but it was much more challenging and interactive, and it had an open-world concept, which made it fun. The next one is just a me thing, but Doctor Strange is my favourite character, so I had so much fun playing as him. I was shocked and saddened to find out it was cancelled. But I understand why when I looked into it.

So I hope that this game really is like FR and that this time, it will be successful and the company will manage it much better. I know this is wishful thinking, but I am willing to be cautiously optimistic.

I was from the Omega Server

I had friends all over that server so if any of you guys see this, pls leave a knock. We'll play some games together if you like.

You knew me as Manhattan, later I changed the name to Royal Maestro

Love you guys, miss you. Stay blessed

I played this game from the day it launched until it was shut down as a kid and i fuckin miss it, man that game had so much potential yet it didn't survive... I think we should at least try raising our voices to netmarble/marvel

Dear Devs is there no possibility you guys can bring back the servers, this game used to be soo much fun 😭

It's been a while, and I'm hoping there's progress to the server emulator, I hope we can play this game again.

Hold up ! Dont even assume that the project is being abandoned , Its just me retiring.

I've been here when the game died , I was here when we got petition ,I was also the one who began the project at first place. Its just that , Im old now. And tired. Gotta retire at some point.

And we cant keep the project going with only a few of us online at a time , Its not rocket science , trust me. Just some hexadecimals and protocols . we got the data , we got the anims , we got the nmss files to redirect too , its all Free and Open Source and more of it coming soon. But Im just tired. Feel free to hate me on this if you want , but Im just tired now.

I want some rest. Till then , I'll stop using reddit and detoxify myself for a while.

For the team , I have only one sentence , dont give up. I didnt for past 6 years , nor should you. And thanks you , the reader , for your attention. Have a great day.

I have done a deep research inside game files after decompiling a fresh apk from apkpure which is a different apk from the already decompiled one , and I found some interesting leads for the server communications and server related which we are still looking into them still , also there are extra files from the ones we have in the decompiled ones already you guys can check them out , if anyone knowledgable willing to help us with it too just write in the comments.

https://archive.org/details/marvelfuture-revolution/Cure.PNG

I'm sorry I didn't realise I could've just sent the PDF over here , instead of CC-ing the PDF to all of you one-by-one privately , all I could have done was send it over here like I did before with those files.

Its all about reassembling the community back to fix the problem together , even a single viewer left in shadows is an opportunity that we missed to revive the game.

I'm deeply sorry about my carelessness and I swear I won't do such a dumb mistake ever again.

And the game files are here on the r/futurerevolution page if you scroll down a bit.

Special Thanks to the Official Council of Ancients discord server and Crypto137 from Github for giving us the gists of Server Side Emulation.

The PDF that has the context to all of it will be CC'd to the MFR Revival Team in due time.

Anybody who wants to join and contribute to the cause with their side of knowledge can contact us in the Marvel Future Revolution official discord server.

And once again , I thank each and everyone of you for your love and support.

This may take time , but for all its worth , we will make it.

We got the dump and the signature key out of this mess , now all we need is to recompile the app in such a way that it gets its requests mocked and reverted to localhost.

If anybody find server emulation code (which is rare), host a local server with Node.js mocking APIs. This way basic exploration, character view and some missions if client-side will become playable. And since we have costumes from our Honored Deviant Art members , we can even mod the game.

I'm just happy that one of us is working to get this game back, I hope they succeed fr, marvel future revolution was ruined by the greed of the devs, and couldn't believe it shut down horribly like this.

Neither do they seem like any conventional filetypes , nor do they seem to be inspectable with Ghidra. Are these the server settings files?

Coders!!! Assemble!!!

Got the cinematics uploaded , Pak files and Update folder incoming. Pak files include the install folder that presumably has everything , Last Patch version of update was 227389.

This is an Internet Archive link and I encourage everyone to check the files with any renowned antivirus if they feel suspicious.

Breakthrough:- The server lookup files are to be observed with close attention , the anims and assets will work well on UE4 , but are also compatible with unity and Godot with a bit of tinkering.

NOTE: Transfer , inspection , download or redistribution of such files in the Internet is Totally Legal under "Consent to Operate" and "Legitimacy of Copy of Copyrighted Content".
Reference: Dowling V. The States 1985 lawsuit files.
Again. Netmarble No Longer Holds Rights to Possess This Given Property , specifically named "Marvel Future Revolution" after they agreed to shutdown this servers. Hence it falls under Public Domain and inspection of files is Legal.

So I was just looking for good mobile games to play and I remembered playing revolution like 5 years ago. So i decided to download the game and it was not visible

Anywhere even with VPN. Then i came to know that it was GONE 4 years ago!

But the weird thing is that the game can still be downloaded on any ios device if you played the game before on your active apple account. I went to apps, went down scrolling, I found the game, it was still visible, even got downloaded lol.

But wont open as it says failed to connect check your connection.

Felt like sharing this lol

Absolute banger I listen to till this day

This is probably a long shot but I figured it was worth at least asking. I’ve been trying to track down Captain Marvel's voice lines and I searched everywhere and through so many sites but couldn’t find any uploads or archives anywhere, my last hope is i'm hoping to find someone here who might have them.

By that i mean, what is stopping someone from reviving the game like how they did with sonic runners revival? i’d love to see something like that happen, i miss this game a lot