The main insight here is that, as far as i can tell, the main thing stopping ARM from working is the installer, not the program or even the patch. I will edit this post if the installs stop working.
download
I got my adobe downloads from soft98.ir, and under each download there is a rar file with the download (or for photoshop its 3 parts, winrar can piece them together for you if theyre in the same dir), and a tool called CCMaker (which i believe isnt maintained, but still works). All rar files on soft98.ir have a password which is always "soft98.ir". Im not sure if m0nkrus downloads would work with the first method described, but perhaps it might. I know the master collection is missing the files required for CCMaker to make sense of it, but individual downloads may work.
install
There are two ways to get these installed:
CCMaker
CCMaker is an unofficial adobe installer. its download functionality is completely broken, but its install (mostly) works.
Turn off windows defender, take the downloaded rar, unzip it with the password "soft98.ir", then mount the iso. if it's taking forever, you can open task manager and kill "windows defender smartscreen" to skip it scanning the iso.
Open CCMaker, hit "install", then navigate to the mounted iso > i believe "products", and select "driver.xml". Don't untick anything, and let CCMaker install adobe for you!
I don't think this method properly fixes the host file, so either do that manually, or just use windows firewall to exclude the exe (C:\Program Files\Adobe\\.exe) from accessing the internet at all
You may get an error complaining it can't communicate with creative cloud desktop. The fix I found is to literally jsut download creative cloud from Adobe's website. Do the same firewall trick, and now your products will work just fine.
In my testing, CCMaker throws an error when attempting to install Illustrator (2025 and 2024, maybe more), so for that, or any others that fail, do the next method
portable
~~EDIT: Illustrator 2025 portable does not work, you can't open any files. Will look into alternatives.~~
soft98.ir provides "portable" versions of many adobe products which don't require an install at all. Simply download the portable version, and place it somewhere where you don't need admin access to write files (ie, not program files. anywhere in user folder should be fine). This might even automatically do the hosts thing but just to be safe, block it from the internet as well. You can also create a shortcut to the exe to put in your start/desktop to pretend it's installed. The downside is that these require admin access for every run, for some reason. I assume to fool it into thinking its not portable.
EDIT 2: To get portable apps working on arm, you may need to mess with the compatibility settings: Right click on the exe, Properties > Compatability > Change settings for all users > Change emulation settings under "windows on arm" > change it from "default" to "safe emulation". If this doesn't work, you might want to try strict or very strict, but these degrade performance.
