Is it worth it to hoard APK Games? I have like 1000+ APK of games I downloaded from 2011-2016

I think many would be incompatible or will be, soon

you can still run them with an android emulator

Its still opening but what I meant is that even with OBBs and other datas, some games still wouldn’t run.

I think you could decompile and recompile them if needed, but I don’t know much about Android/apk related stuff

but most android apps are made in java which runs on a JVM

If you keep a device old enough to run them it’s fine

No, because most of them have data to download anyway, so if they go down, the APK itself will be useless.

If you backup /obb’s, it usually won’t. From Android 1.0 - 11, that should be fine.

The hard part is with newer Androids that block access to the /Android/data/obb trees.

There’s many ways to access obb, like use the built-in file manager.

Make sure to have different versions of Android on tap as well. Custom roms from XDS would be a good place to start.

for only 8 gigs i wouldn’t even bother thinking about it tbh

Most of them are not in playstore anymore and this folder includes OBBs. I tried running some of them but unfortunately they dont run anymore. At least on android 9+. I have deleted them now.

No offense, but that was stupid. It’s 8 gigabyte. It doesn’t cost you anything to keep 8 GB around. If you’re really needing that space just get a flash drive or something and save it somewhere.

I know but I have to let them go I guess for my mental health too. I just hope this wont be me back in the future.

I have probably 500GB on my HDD that I just don’t feel like deleting. Sometimes I download folder gets up to 500+GB before I notice.

Lol right? I’ve got 8gb on an empty flash drive from 10 years ago. I download game patches bigger than that on the regular

You could have tried on an older android device first. But for 8 gigs, I wouldn’t even have bothered. I’d just throw them in a bucket and be done with it.

I would assume you could emulate an older version of Android and run them on that?

Idk why people are downvote u lol, if they don’t work and hold no value to you anymore, there’s no reason to keep it, whether it’s 100gb, 100gb or 100mb.

The downvotes are because OP made this post asking if is worth it to keep it. Then goes on and deletes them anyway. Why ask if you’ve already decided what you were going to do in the first place.

They do still work, just not on the latest version of android. Old devices and emulators still exist.

Android 14 won’t run any of these old apps (only allows 64 bit) so it was pointless to keep anyway.

Why do you ask, then.

OP thought 8gb is a lot and were proud to show it off. I had like 50gb of apk and shit. It’s not that I dont want to deletes it, I just lost it in my nested folder.

Anything you find value in keeping safe is worth saving

I have a tron.ipa app from my 4th generation ipod touch that I have in case my ipod breaks and I have to get another one. I bought a Monster brand Tron light disc ipod dock, and the lighting effects only work with the tron app. Useless to probably 99.9% of people, but priceless to me.

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