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I bought my e-reader to read not to play, but if games are already in source code I prefer they are not hidden ;-)

This patches are only for Kobo Glo Hd, who doesn't show games on Beta Features screen.

Inside nickel there are some compressed streams (.qm for translations, .png, .css, ...).
In one of those css, there is the code that causes games are not shown on GloHd:

Spoiler:

#boggleContainer[qApp_deviceIsAlyssum="true"],
#solitaireContainer[qApp_deviceIsAlyssum="true"],
#rushHourContainer[qApp_deviceIsAlyssum="true"],
#sudokuContainer[qApp_deviceIsAlyssum="true"],
#sketchPadContainer[qApp_deviceIsAlyssum="true"] {
qproperty-visible: false;
}

With a python script, I changed that code, with care to respect the same number of bytes. You can install the resulting nickel with attached KoboRoot.tgz, or you can execute attached python code to do by your own.

My first attempt blocked my e-reader because I forgot to set attribute executable on nickel file! But after a factory reset (thx davidfor!), I tried again with permission set and that's right ;-) Attached files are ok with that.

With nickel patch, games are shown on Beta Features, but only the first page (Sketch Pad, Sudoku, Web Browser, Unblock It). The second page (Solitaire, Word Scramble) is not available. That is because a check is done on libnickel, so we must reverse that check with a patch, that could be processed inside libnickel.so.1.0.0.patch (from GeoffR patching instructions).

Spoiler:

<Patch>
patch_name = `Show second page of Beta Features for Glo Hd`
patch_enable = `yes`
#
replace_bytes = 986010, 00, 01
</Patch>

Python script could be useful for other firmwares, but KoboRoot.tgz and Patch are only for 3.19.5671!