CLEO iOS

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Features

• File support
  • CSA scripts
  • CSI scripts
  • FXT language extensions
• Mod loading
  • Archive (.img) file modding
  • Automatic file replacement
• Cheat menu
• 60 FPS

Languages

CLEO is available in several languages. All translations are written by a brilliant team of volunteers. If you speak a language that isn't in this list, please ping me in the Discord server or DM me on Discord and you can be come a translator!

• Arabic / العربيه (by RAiZOK)
• Czech / čeština (by tharryz)
• Dutch / Nederlands (by wewewer1)
• English
• Khmer / ខ្មែរ (by ODIN)
• Simplified Chinese / 中文（简体） (by tharryz)
• Slovak / slovenčina (by tharryz)
• Spanish / Español (by Bruno Melo)
• Thai / ภาษาไทย (by Flylarb The BMO)
• Turkish / Türkçe (by AYZM)
• Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt (by tharryz)

Installation

1. Download the .deb file from the latest release.
2. Install the .deb using a tool like dpkg or through an app like Filza.

When the game is opened, if it has been at least five hours since the last check, CLEO will check to see if there is a new release available. If there is one, a message will be displayed with the option to go to the release.

To update CLEO, simply follow the above steps with the newer .deb. The package manager will handle the update, and your mods will remain in place.

Building

Developers: see the bottom of the README for instructions on how to build CLEO.

Menu

The CLEO menu (or just "the menu") is used to control scripts, cheats and CLEO's own options.

You can access it by swiping down on the screen. The menu is available everywhere in the GTA app, but if you aren't in a game then you can only access the CLEO options from it.

The Options tab contains a few settings. Some change how the game behaves, while others change how CLEO behaves.

Options that are enabled are green and show "On" on the right-hand side of the screen. Options that are disabled have white text and display the word "Off" instead.

Each option has a description which includes the default value of that setting.

If you have trouble using any part of the CLEO menu, especially if due to something like dyslexia or colourblindness, please mention it on Discord.

Scripts

Installation

1. Find a script that you want to use.
2. Navigate to the GTA app's data folder. This will be a folder in /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application. If you are using Filza, you are looking for a folder displayed as GTA: SA. If not, the folder name will be the app's UUID. (Therefore it's easiest to use Filza for this.)
3. Open the Documents folder inside the app data folder.
4. Create a folder named CLEO. It may be a good idea to bookmark this folder so you can find it again later easily.
5. Put any .csi, .csa or .fxt files from the script into the CLEO folder. Any other files will be ignored, so you can add those if you don't want to lose them. If you want, you can create more folders inside the CLEO folder to organise your mods; CLEO will look inside these too.

CSI Scripts

A "CSI" script (any script with the .csi file extension) is a script that will not run unless you tell it to.

CLEO searches for these scripts and presents them in the CSI tab in the menu. Each script displays its status – "Running" or "Not running" – on the right-hand side of the screen. Scripts that are running will be shown in green, while scripts that aren't will be shown in white.

• To launch a CSI script, simply tap on it in the menu so that it turns green and says "Running".
• You cannot stop a script once it has started; it is up to the script to decide when it stops running.
• When a script stops, its status will change from "Running" to "Not running". You can then tap it to run it again.

There is a third colour: orange. An orange tint indicates that there is an issue with a script. When CLEO detects that a script may cause issues such as a game crash, it warns you about the risk at the top of the menu, and highlights the potentially unstable script (or scripts) in orange.

There are several reasons why a script could be orange:

• It uses code that only works on Android (because the Android game is 32-bit and the iOS game is 64-bit);
• It uses features which aren't yet implemented on iOS; or
• It is a duplicate of another script.

A single script may have multiple issues, but only one will ever be shown.

This system is not 100% perfect. You should still exercise caution when using scripts, even if they aren't orange.

When you see a script highlighted in orange, it doesn't mean that it won't run, but it does mean that there is something about the script that could cause problems. There are some scripts which will show in orange but which will run perfectly fine on iOS – you can try an orange script, but you should be ready for the game to crash if you do.

Most non-orange scripts should work fine. If you find a script that doesn't work and that is not highlighted in orange, please report it via Discord.

CSA Scripts

CLEO also supports "CSA" scripts (scripts with the .csa file extension). CSA scripts start when the game starts unless you turn them off in the menu.

Before CLEO 2.1.0, CSI and CSA scripts were together in one "Scripts" tab. Since 2.1.0, there has been a separate tab for CSA scripts. This tab allows you to turn certain scripts off if you do not want to use them.

The CSA script shares many features with the CSI menu: scripts that are enabled are green, scripts which are disabled are white, and those with errors are orange.

Orange CSA scripts are disabled by default to prevent them crashing your game as soon as they start running. If you tap an orange script in the CSA menu, it will not change from "Disabled" to "Enabled", but from "Disabled" to "Forced", which functions the same as "Enabled". Other CSA scripts are enabled by default.

If you experience crashing and you can't get to the menu to turn off a script, simply remove the script you think is responsible from your CLEO folder.

As with CSI scripts, if you find a CSA script which is not highlighted in orange that doesn't work, please report it via the Discord server.

Archives

An archive is any file with the .img extension. Archives are like folders: they contain many smaller files.

Many important aspects of the game rely on archives. For example, car models are stored in the gta3.img archive. To change a car model, you'll need to change the files that live inside the archive.

To do this, you need to have a folder inside the CLEO directory with the same name as the archive. So, for car models, you would need a folder named gta3.img. If you've already run the game with CLEO installed, all the .img folders will have been created for you. If you haven't, just create the folder manually (and make sure you get the name correct – capitalisation matters here).

(Some mods might need you to modify a different archive such as player.img. The process is the same for those too; we're just using gta3.img as an example. Just make sure you are following the instructions for the mod you're trying to use.)

Your CLEO folder should now look like this:

CLEO
│    ...
└─── gta3.img (empty folder)

How do we actually change the car models though? It's simple: just add files to the gta3.img folder, and if the game tries to load that file from the archive, CLEO will make it use the version inside your folder instead. Let's try it.

If we add a file named clover.dff to the gta3.img folder, instead of loading that file from the archive, the game will use the one inside the folder.

Now the CLEO folder looks like this:

CLEO
│    ...
└─── gta3.img
     └── clover.dff

If we go into the game now, the "Clover" car will be using our custom model instead of the default one.

Remember that this will work for any mod or archive. To do this for another archive, just use the name of that archive instead of gta3.img.

Swapping Game Files

Some mods require you to change game files. While it is completely possible to just go into gta3sa.app and change files there, there's a better way: using CLEO's file swapping functionality.

If you modify your game files, you can risk breaking the game completely (especially if you don't back up the original files). To avoid this risk, CLEO provides a folder where you can put files that you'd like to replace game files with.

This folder is called Replace, and it lives inside the CLEO directory. If you've run the game with CLEO installed, then you'll already have this folder. If you don't have it, you'll need to make it yourself.

You can think of Replace as being like a mini version of the game directory. Whenever the game looks for a file, it will look inside the Replace folder first. If it finds the file there, it will load it from there. Otherwise, it will just load the file from gta3sa.app.

Let's try an example with timecyc.dat, which controls how the game's environment changes based on the in-game time.

Normally, the game will just load gta3sa.app/timecyc.dat when it needs the file. However, if we add a file named timecyc.dat to the Replace folder, it'll load from there instead.

The CLEO folder will look like this:

CLEO
│    ...
└─── Replace
     └── timecyc.dat

It's that simple! If we later decide we want to go back to the original version of the file, we can just delete timecyc.dat from the Replace folder, and the game will go back to using its own version of the file. You don't need to back up files if you are replacing them with Replace.

Cheats

The menu has a Cheats tab which contains a list of cheats, each displaying its code and a description.

If you look at the above image, you'll notice that there are four different colours of cheat displayed. These represent the cheat status:

• White – This means a cheat is Off. A cheat that looks like this is not affecting the game.
• Blue – The cheat is Queued On. This means that it will be activated when you leave the menu.
• Green – The cheat is On, and is affecting the game.
• Red – The cheat is Queued Off, meaning that it will be disabled when you leave the menu.

Some cheats will never display the "On" status, because they are "one-shot". This means that they do not have an ongoing effect on the game, and instead do something once (giving the player money, for example). Other cheats will turn on, and these cheats are "persistent" cheats, meaning that they will affect the game while they are turned on (by modifying cars' handling, for example). The effect will stop when you turn the cheat off.

You can change a cheat's status by tapping on it in the menu. The reason you cannot turn a cheat "On" or "Off" immediately (without going through a "Queued" stage) is because cheats cannot run while the CLEO menu is open, as the game is paused. "Queued" just means that the cheat is waiting for the game to resume in order to change its status.

The cheats are arranged in alphabetical order, so if you know a cheat code, just scroll down to where it would be alphabetically to find it.

Cheats can break save files and/or crash the game, so you should be careful when using them. Some cheat descriptions will say that the cheat crashes the game, so make sure you read the description before using the cheat.

What do I do if I need help/found a bug/have a suggestion?

Please don't keep quiet about it!

If you have a suggestion or you think you've found a bug, either create an issue on GitHub or join the Discord server to discuss it there. The more bugs that get fixed, the better CLEO will become for you and everybody else!

If you need help with something, please join the Discord server so we can assist you there. Also, don't forget that you can read through the step-by-step instructions on this page if you can't remember how to do something.

Building

Ignore this section if you are not a developer.

Rust setup

You will need to install Rust on your system before compiling CLEO (since it's written in Rust). If you don't have it installed already, go to https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started and follow the instructions there. If you do have it installed, it might be worth running rustup update to ensure you're on the latest version.

CLEO needs features that are only available in the nightly toolchain. If you get start a shell in the CLEO folder, you can use rustup override set nightly to set the toolchain to nightly for that directory.

You'll need to have the aarch64-apple-ios target too, so run rustup target add aarch64-apple-ios to set that up.

build.py

CLEO is typically built using the build.py script in the main directory. This script compiles the Rust code and produces a dynamic library (.dylib), but it can also do a couple of other things.

• --release will build a release version of the tweak. If you don't specify this, the tweak will be built in debug mode. The output of a release build is target/aarch64-apple-ios/release/cleo.dylib. Debug builds go in target/aarch64-apple-ios/debug.
• --package will create cleo.deb in the same folder as cleo.dylib. This can be used to install the tweak.
• --install will install the tweak to a device. If you use --package, this will copy cleo.deb to the device and install it. Otherwise, it will just copy cleo.dylib and cleo.plist onto the device, overwriting the previous versions of those files. If the device doesn't have CLEO installed yet, use --package on the first install.

build.py relies on a few environment variables to work. In order to use --install, you must first set CLEO_INSTALL_HOST to either the hostname or IP address of the device the tweak should be installed to. There are other variables too, but the values for these depend on your platform.

See below for platform-specific instructions.

Linux

On my Manjaro machine there was not a lot of setup required to build CLEO. The main thing you need is an iOS toolchain, because we need clang and ldid in order to create a .dylib from the .ar file that rustc gives us.

I use Sam Bingner's Linux iOS toolchain, which has worked for me on both Ubuntu and Manjaro, and I've been using it since the original C++ CLEO. You can install it by downloading the .tar.lzma file from the latest release and extracting it into a folder somewhere on your system.

This toolchain contains both ldid and Apple's build of clang. Once you've extracted it, just set CLEO_CLANG and CLEO_LDID to the paths to those tools in the toolchain. They can be found inside the bin folder.

For example, I use the following:

• CLEO_CLANG="/home/squ1dd13/projects/ios/toolchain/bin/clang"
• CLEO_LDID="/home/squ1dd13/projects/ios/toolchain/bin/ldid"

You'll also need an iOS SDK. I currently build against an iOS 13.2 SDK. I can't remember where I got it from, but there are loads of places you can get iOS SDKs. You should end up with a folder called iPhoneOSxx.x.sdk (or just iPhoneOS.sdk). The path to this folder is what you should set CLEO_IOS_SDK to. Mine is /home/squ1dd13/projects/ios/iPhoneOS.sdk.

I had to manually get dpkg-deb on my Manjaro system, but that was as simple as yay -S dpkg. If you don't have this already, you'll need to find out how to get it for your specific distro.

Installation to a device requires scp, so make sure you have that too.

macOS

rustc can produce .dylib files on macOS. build.py tells it to do that when it detects a macOS system, but for whatever reason, this override doesn't work and the build process goes the same as on Linux, producing an AR archive. You can change crate-type = ["staticlib"] to crate-type = ["cdylib"] in Cargo.toml, and you will get a .dylib from rustc.

If you don't already have it, you can get dpkg from Homebrew with brew install dpkg. This installs the dpkg-deb command. You don't need clang for building on macOS, but you will need ldid. This can be installed with brew install ldid. Once you have it, just set CLEO_LDID to the path to the installed executable.

For some reason, versions of the tweak built with macOS crash on startup. It appears to be something to do with the panic hook that CLEO installs, but it's unclear as to what differs between Linux and macOS builds that would cause that.

Windows

I'd recommend using WSL and following the Linux guide. If anyone gets CLEO built on Windows without using WSL, please feel free to add an explanation here.

Thanks to...

• The translator team for their hard work helping people from all around the world use CLEO:
  • AYZM
  • Bruno Melo
  • Flylarb The BMO
  • ODIN
  • RAiZOK
  • tharryz
  • wewewer1
• Seemann for offering support and info, and for letting this project officially be a part of CLEO.
• Alexander Blade for creating CLEO Android, and for publishing information on his Android-specific opcodes here.
• DK22Pac and all the others who have contributed to plugin-sdk, which has been very helpful for creating game structures.
• All those who have contributed to the gta-reversed project, which has been a valuable resource for building my understanding of some of the more complex systems that are in both the PC and iOS versions.
• oliver#1219 for gifting me the other GTA games to help with getting CLEO working on those too.
• Members of the CLEO iOS Discord server for reporting bugs, helping investigate them and testing fixes.
• The GTA modding community in general for doing so much of the research which made CLEO iOS possible!