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Mobile games from the early and late 2000s have started to gain some traction when it comes to preservation efforts, be it by Youtubers that track down either original developers or the owners of the device that has a certain game, or by hacking enthusiasts that collect older phones through Japanese auction sites in hopes of finding a particular phone that has a still non-preserved game, and then the attempt to break their encryption and dumping begins, and sometimes, even both instances join efforts to dump and preserve certain titles.

In this instance, Video Game Esoterica covers the finding of two new specific Japanese-only phone titles, with the first one being Bomberman 3D, which is a 3D outing of Bomberman with the classic gameplay the franchise is known for, and the second title being a bullet-hell shoot-em-up game from the DoDonPachi franchise, which was a very peculiar case and a milestone for preservation, as this particular title was only up for sale for 24 hours only back in the day, making this finding a one in a million, and more so that the people involved managed to dump the game and preserve it for days to come.

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These two games are playable through the Keitai World Launcher, which is a software that launches multiple emulators for a specific set of feature phones in Japan that allowed for 2D and 3D graphics with their own store. This requires a .NET 7.0 runtime and a Java environment installed in order to run the mobile games.

Keitai Archive

 

[Robert Newbie]

Nice, a Bomberman game and a CAVE shump that was only available for a single day?

Mobile preservation has had a ton of victories this year.

 

[Egoistamamono]

Still waiting an emulator for Android which capability can play DoJa and some keitai games.

 

[LanHikariDS]

Still waiting an emulator for Android which capability can play DoJa and some keitai games.

Same, especially since I have the CAT S22 Flip, which has a full T9 keypad

 

[SylverReZ]

Good thing that there's a way to play these titles without resorting to a Discord server of all places.

 

[bloodfalco]

Will there be found a Before Crisis FF7?

 

[ertaboy356b]

I remember that Warcraft 3 like mobile game back in the day. I play it a lot in my Nokia. I wonder who made it. Maybe Gameloft?

 

[Smoker1]

Now if only Blood Pong or Pong Kombat 3 (Both based on MK3, but think Pong) would be able to function on anything besides Win98-XP

 

[LoggerMan]

I hate how he says "videogameeso . . . terica".

 

[lordelan]

I hate how he says "videogameeso . . . terica".

Yeah I can't stand this dude although his FPGA-based videos are fantastic (from a content's perspective).
But the way he speaks kills me, thus I skip his videos, as sad as that is.

 

[SDA]

Yay, Bomberman! I love Bomberman so much!

 

[Egoistamamono]

Will there be found a Before Crisis FF7?

If I remember correctly, the Doja version has already been dumped, but some chapters are still missing, and someone is trying to recreate those chapters. ...and they are waiting for someone to dump the Softbank version.

What I'm playing is the trial version of EZWeb (BREW).

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Same, especially since I have the CAT S22 Flip, which has a full T9 keypad

That phone is very popular among j2me game lovers. I want to have one, but it seems expensive if I have to import it here. A few days ago, I saw someone playing a keitai game on that phone by mirroring it from a PC.

 

[LoggerMan]

Yeah I can't stand this dude although his FPGA-based videos are fantastic (from a content's perspective).
But the way he speaks kills me, thus I skip his videos, as sad as that is.

And I usually like YouTubers who speak funny, like whose natural speaking voice is strange. But videogame esoterica grates. There's no way that's his natural way of speaking day to day. An impediment is endearing, but an annoying affectation is not. But yeah he's one of the only people who actually keeps up with things like Analogue Pocket. Pixel Cherry Ninja does too sometimes make videos around the same subjects. I've been scouring YouTube for Analogue Pocket content regularly for years and I can't think of anyone else. There's hundreds of the same kind of "reviews" though from hundreds of different people. Buying an Analogue Pocket and reviewing it in a highly produced or glazing way is like a right of passage or something on YouTube.

 

[raxadian]

While nice there are better versions of Bomberman in 3D out there, although this one has cuter graphics that the Arcade game Bomberman World and lacks the fake 3D from "3D Bomberman", yes that's a different game.

The shooter? Yeah that's really new hence why 3/4 of the video are about it. Although there are very similar shooters out there none of them are exactly like this one.

Wish we got a Symbian emulator, my old Nokia N8 is not gonna last forever.

 

[lordelan]

And I usually like YouTubers who speak funny, like whose natural speaking voice is strange. But videogame esoterica grates. There's no way that's his natural way of speaking day to day. An impediment is endearing, but an annoying affectation is not. But yeah he's one of the only people who actually keeps up with things like Analogue Pocket. Pixel Cherry Ninja does too sometimes make videos around the same subjects. I've been scouring YouTube for Analogue Pocket content regularly for years and I can't think of anyone else. There's hundreds of the same kind of "reviews" though from hundreds of different people. Buying an Analogue Pocket and reviewing it in a highly produced or glazing way is like a right of passage or something on YouTube.

Yeah. This is a good list btw:
https://metalgamesolid.com/fpga/best-youtube-channels-for-fpga-gaming/
For retro handhelds, there's no better than Retro Game Corps and The Phawx imho.

 

[isoboy]

Sausagebeer. If you know you know. To those of you who "hate" this guy....some of the things he says in his videos he does just to trigger you.

 

[zfreeman]

I remember that Warcraft 3 like mobile game back in the day. I play it a lot in my Nokia. I wonder who made it. Maybe Gameloft?

Rise of Lost Empires

 

[ertaboy356b]

Rise of Lost Empires

Yo thanks a lot. I think there's another one where it starts in a snowy area. You know what that is?

 

[zfreeman]

Yo thanks a lot. I think there's another one where it starts in a snowy area. You know what that is?

Ancient Empires 2? But that played like Fire Emblem, rather than Warcraft.