Need help hooking SoundPool in Android game to restore broken sound effects (Puzzle Craft 2)

Hey! I’m working on restoring an old Android game called Puzzle Craft 2. The game didn’t even launch at first, but I already fixed that loading screen issue with help from Reddit. Now it runs fine. music works, gameplay works but none of the sound effects play. (the game is still available on ios. It works perfectly and was supported for a long time before it was eventually abandoned.)

I discovered that the game was coded in cocos2d, used SoundPool for the sound effect calls, and these calls silently fail on modern Android. The .aac files still exist and work, and everything plays fine on older phones. so it's clearly a compatibility issue.

-> My idea is to hook SoundPool.load() and play() using Frida or Xposed, log or intercept the calls, and play the correct sounds externally (like with MediaPlayer). I don't know anything about coding, but I’ve already put a lot of effort into this and just need someone with Frida/hooking knowledge to help implement or guide me.

If you’re into reverse engineering or Android internals, I’d love your help. This is just a passion project trying to revive an underrated farming game that is abandoned and doesn't work anymore.. I need all the help i can get. Thanks!