Ok, I've tried again and managed to get the patch working by using JOIplay, which was a hassle because I hardly understand any of this stuff but whatever. Here's how, for anyone else who may be trying for Android
(Sorry if I'm preaching to the choir here, I'm sure most of you reading know all of this already)
First, download and install the PC version. Extract the ZIP folder and go to Downloads>CBTL>CBTL>game>tl>None
Here you'll find some "common" files, here is where the patch goes in, place it, extract it and move the two patch.rpy and patch.rpyc files that are inside, move them next to the common files.
I deleted the now empty file that the two patch files came from, but I'm not sure if it's necessary or not. It probably doesn't matter.
Then, go deeper into None>Patch>game, and delete the two patches that are already there.
That's that. Now you can try playing using JOIplay. Keep in mind there's a separate plug-in for Renpy functionality that you'll have to download as well.
BUT if it doesn't load, which it probably won't if your phone is relatively updated, you'll have to go back to CBTL>CBTL>game, and find "script_version.txt", which will read "(7, 4, 8)". Just replace the 8 with a 6.
Anyways, it should work then. If not, there's a log.txt and a traceback.txt that will tell you why it crashed. Which helped me out.
So far JOIplay has been working flawlessly for me as far as I can tell, unlike a few other games I've tried in the past, so IMO there's no loss of quality.