Bounty Hunting

When Brave Frontier Global shut down in 2022, some of the game's data only ever lived on gumi's servers and was lost. This board lists the pieces BF Revive is still missing. Every bounty names the exact file, table or fight we need and what kind of source works.

The rule: if it's not on this list, we don't need it. Please check the bounty and the Already have list before you send anything.

28 open bounties. Status: Wanted (nobody has found it yet), Partly found (some of it came in, the rest is still wanted), Found (done, thank you).

• Battles 8
• Raids 3
• Frontier Rift 3
• Grand Gaia Chronicles, Grand Quests and Forbidden Tablets 4
• Battle effects (.sam) 6
• EU units 2
• Art and interface files 2
• How to send
• Already have

How to send

Post in the Discord forum channel #bounty-hunting, one post per bounty:

• Title: the bounty ID first, then a few words, e.g. [EU-1] unit_cgg files from my old EU phone.
• File: attach it, or link it (Google Drive, Mega, Dropbox, YouTube for videos). Zip folders with many files.
• Where it came from: e.g. an old phone's app data, an APK or OBB (with its version), a Windows install, a datamine, your own video. Add the date if you know it.
• Videos and screenshots: say which quest or screen it is, and show the whole fight: every wave, the boss's HP bar and every skill it uses.

Staff check every file before it's used, and submitted files are never run or installed. Only send game data. Never send files that hold your login, like UserDefault.xml, an account transfer code or a password.

Battles

Almost every quest is playable, but most fights are rebuilt: the original enemy waves, stats and boss skills only ever came from gumi's server, so no APK, OBB or install holds them. Only 192 quests have their real battle, from 2014 network captures. What works: a saved network capture of the game's MissionStart replies (HAR, mitmproxy, Charles, pcap: search it for U0v5IeJo), or a full unedited video of the quest where every wave, the boss's HP bar and every skill banner can be read.

Look up any quest (every mission, by mode and area): battles-all.txt

Raids

Frontier Rift

Hadaron and Aurelia are the reward units of two rifts, Athensphere's Revenge and Essence of Time. We hold the rift rewards, schedules, enemy skills, art and story. The enemies themselves (HP, ATK, DEF, placement, AI) were never in the client files.

Grand Gaia Chronicles, Grand Quests and Forbidden Tablets

Grand Gaia Chronicles (Vortex > Travellers) and the Grand Quests (the map mode) are two different modes. We hold their chapters, maps, story and art. Their battles are missing.

Battle effects (.sam)

Brave Burst effects are .sam animation files with sprite sheets named <name>_<W>x<H>.png next to them. Search your files by the file name; the folder layout varied between versions.

EU units

We hold the data and most art for all 225 EU-only units. A battle sprite also needs its unit_cgg_<id>.csv (how to cut the sprite sheet into body parts). Public sources cover 209 of them already, so only these are left.

Art and interface files

Already have: please don't send

We already hold all of this. Sending it again only buries the files we really need.