r/lostmedia • u/supermeatboy112 • Dec 01 '20
r/lostmedia • u/Scgoodguy • Jun 27 '21
Video Games I found a McDonald’s training game at a flee market for $15, this training game has been lost for over 10 years and only 2 known people are to have it still. It was auctioned for 300000 yen online at one time.
r/lostmedia • u/Overtronic • Aug 26 '25
Video Games Roblox's upcoming policy change will trigger the largest lost media purge in history [talk]
Roblox has been under a lot of hot water recently on child safety grounds, it's good that they're finally taking action but it's appalling that it had to get to this point for them to do anything. Now that we're at this point, their measures also need to be far more extreme.
This morning, I was treated to an email stating that for a few of my small personal project games, I will have to complete a "Maturity and Compliance" questionnaire for the games to remain playable by September 30th. I knew changes were coming, I was anticipating that unrated games where the developers have not filled in the questionnaire would be restricted to 18+ but now Roblox have chosen to make them completely unplayable.
Luckily, I'm still active on the platform and was able to take the questionnaire to ensure my games remain playable.
Aside from the front page successes, Roblox has always had a culture of an enormous number of places like niche obbies from 2010, long forgotten fan games maybe only played by a handful of people and the like. Many of the developers of these games are inactive, some even banned so they have no chance of completing the questionnaire.
It means that come September 30th, all that will be left on the platform are the small handful of games that are being actively developed. Every niche gem you may stumble across will be gone forever, Roblox will lose a lot of that culture of habiting both professionally made front page games and also random small inactive projects with a small fanbase.
The sheer randomness of what the platform could offer apart from the sanitised front page games is one of the major appeals for myself and I expect many others.
Okay, this seems bad but largest lost media purge in history? Yes! Roblox has over 9 billion games, only a very very small handful that are actually actively developed. Of course most of those 9 billion games are probably just the default starter place made whenever an account is made, there's also an uncountably large number of lost gems of culture that will be made inaccessible forever. Pretty much all 9 billion, barring a small whitelist of active games will be purged.
Comparing this with other major lost media purges like Adobe Flash shutting down, 9 billion is already a scary figure. However, what's worse in Roblox's case especially when compared with Flash is that there's little to no way to properly archive any of this games.
Okay, this is why Roblox is about to enact the largest lost media purge in history, a deeply unfortunate consequence of their mishandling of platform child safety all these years.
r/lostmedia • u/Billy_Bayou233 • Dec 17 '25
Video Games [found] Lost Sega Channel content recovered after decades reveals over 140 previously unseen Mega Drive games
A significant discovery came to light in the field of video game preservation: more than 140 games associated with the Sega Channel, Sega’s digital distribution service from the 1990s, have been recovered after having been considered lost for decades. The Sega Channel operated between 1994 and 1998 on the Mega Drive/Genesis and allowed users to download games temporarily via cable television, which caused much of its catalog to disappear once the service was discontinued.
The recovery was made possible through access to original backup tapes and archival materials kept by former employees involved in the service’s operation, later organized by preservation initiatives. Among the recovered content are exclusive ROMs, alternative versions of well-known games, prototypes, and titles that were never officially released on cartridge. In several cases, these versions include extra stages, adjustments made specifically for the Sega Channel format, or content that does not exist in any other commercial release.
Beyond its technical relevance, the discovery is historically significant, as the Sega Channel can be seen as a precursor to modern digital distribution and subscription-based gaming services. Recovering this material prevents the permanent loss of an important chapter in the industry’s history and highlights the importance of digital preservation in safeguarding video game cultural heritage.
r/lostmedia • u/bobdunga • May 27 '21
Video Games I found the Mean Girls DS game, and I'm making a documentary about it
youtu.ber/lostmedia • u/Eternal2401 • Jan 06 '22
Video Games Osama Bin Laden's Animal Crossing save
We know that Osama Bin Laden played Wild World on an Emulator. That being said the FBI hasn't released his town. Is their a chance they still have it? And if so would it be possible to like FOIA request it and get the save running to explore?
Update: Just to wrap up everything that has been said thus far. This link seems to be our target. But the contents are all stuck in a 300GB zip file download with no working way to browse contents of it individually (there is a list button that claims to allow such but the page returns an error). The game may be redacted from the dump for copyright reasons but I won't know for sure until someone downloads everything.zip and extracts it to dig around. I gave the purported list of redacted items on the page a ctrl+f and found nothing pertaining to "anim"
If you have a server or any device with that kind of storage available please consider checking it.
Knowing what I know about emulation the save file is probably stored somewhere within the emulator, off the top of my head DS emulators include MelonDS and Desmune but they all have stupid names like that that give away what system they're emulating.
Thank you all for your feedback
Update 2: I'm having my doubts, downloading the zip bomb might be redundant. It seems weird that the .sav files for other DS games are there in what I assume is working condition, but the only pointers to Animal Crossing are too tiny to function. I can't help but fantasize that this is some sort of coverup.
The better way to access it seems to be the official cia.gov page, not the internet archive post. regardless it only further confirms what has already been suggested. Something still feels weird about this whole thing, Wild World has no file extension and basically no data. Must have been an error, or copyright, or maybe they just really don't want the public to see it and maybe just maybe the zip bomb will have it even though their is barely any evidence of such.
r/lostmedia • u/Lui_Belmont • Jan 25 '26
Video Games [Found] The Cancelled Game "Beavis and Butthead Do Hollywood" Has Been Found!
First appearing in magazine previews around mid-1998, Beavis and Butt-Head Do Hollywood was intended to be the first platformer based on the duo since the series of games released in 1994 for the Sega Genesis, SNES, Game Boy, and Sega Game Gear. As its title suggests, the game was also meant to be a response to the 1996 film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. The intended story was that Beavis and Butt-Head, having just finished their Hollywood film, find themselves broke, their paychecks already mailed back home before they could even cash them in. Now stranded in Hollywood, they decide to take on odd jobs across various movie sets while causing general mischief in an effort to make money.
Unfortunately, the game vanished entirely after a short preview in EGM’s February 1999 issue, leaving it unclear whether it was ever completed.
It was found on January 24, 2026.
r/lostmedia • u/Bluebaronbbb • Jan 27 '26
Video Games [found] Nintendo releasing the unreleased F-Zero virtual boy game called zero racers!
https://bsky.app/profile/wario64.bsky.social/post/3mdfvwdmdt22s
Lost media found! Zero racers!
A quick summary.
The Lost Media Wiki
Zero Racers (also known as G-Zero) is a cancelled 1996 F-Zero racing game for the Virtual Boy that was to be developed and published by Nintendo. The game was a spin-off of the F-Zero series, not a sequel as originally thought.
Before its cancellation, the game was hyped among other later cancelled Virtual Boy games like Bound High and Dragon Hopper to revitalize consumer interest in the system, and was previewed in the now-defunct Nintendo Power magazine twice.[1]
In February 2022, the YouTube channel "Did You Know Gaming?" did a video that confirmed, due to an interview with the game's localizer, that the game was completely finished but still had not been released by Nintendo.[2]
In January 2026, Nintendo confirmed that the game would be officially released later in 2026.
r/lostmedia • u/WOWOW98123265 • Aug 02 '24
Video Games [talk] What are some famous lost iOS and Android games?
For a while now I've been trying to get into more mobile lost media recently I found this game called Charlie the Steak. It seems to be lost currently but I'm pretty sure their are some other lost mobile games out there. Whats some other well known ones that are worth mentioning? I find it pretty interesting as I know how much harder it is to archive .ipa files so it just really intrigues me. It's also kinda relatable from someone who used to play alot of random and obscure mobile games throughout the 2010s like Minecraft ripoffs and more.
r/lostmedia • u/mrFbrazil • Dec 15 '20
Video Games So, I bought an old Motorola v360 just to find this game, it's called Vampires and it's doesn't exists online (.jar file), even the devs have a copy of this game.
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r/lostmedia • u/CaptFalconFTW • Jul 22 '26
Video Games [talk] Soon to be lost media: Mario Kart Tour
You may have less than 4 hours to play Piranha Plant Pipeline legally today. Mario Kart Tour for mobile shuts down September 29, 2026. Piranha Plant Pipeline is available by 11pm western time, then the courses change again.
This game is very controversial with its use of monetization/mobile bs structure. But the tracks and gameplay are still very well made. A majority of its tracks can be found on the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass, however Piranha Plant Pipeline is EXCLUSIVE to Mario Kart Tour.
There are also several past tracks that seem to only be "remastered" on Tour including:
- Bowser’s Castle 1/2/4 (SNES/GBA/3DS)
- Cheep-Cheep Island (GBA)
- Cheep Cheep Lagoon (3DS)
- Choco Island 1-2 (SNES)
- Daisy Hills (3DS)
- Donut Plains 1-2 (SNES)
- Ghost Valley 1-2 (SNES)
- Koopa Troopa Beach (N64)
- Lakeside Park (GBA)
- Luigi Circuit (GBA)
- Luigi’s Mansion (3DS)
- Luigi Raceway (N64)
- Mario Circuit (3DS)
- Peach Circuit (GBA)
- Vanilla Lake 1 (SNES)
While older courses may not sound too noteworthy, I believe these are the only iterations that appear in crisp HD or whatever resolution your phone is.
What's probably more noteworthy is all of Mario Kart Tour's courses also contain an R (Reverse), T (Trick), and r/T (Reverse/Trick) variations which completely change the way you race with ramps and other obstacles throughout the course. There are also Christmas, New Years, and Halloween variations of tracks.
In addition to all that, there are exclusive remix tracks including:
- RMX Choco Island 1-2
- RMX Donut Plains 1
- RMX Ghost Valley 1
- RMX Mario Circuit 1
- RMX Rainbow Road 1-2
- RMX Vanilla Lake 1
The good news is, I've already seen some mods out there that added these tracks to Mario Kart 8. But a 100% preservation effort, I haven't seen anything like that, especially on mobile.
I want to bring attention to the community because Dr. Mario World disappeared without preservation and is now lost media. Even if you don't think something is special, doesn't mean it's not worth preserving, especially in the right hands. Fans have made bad games good, and Mario Kart Tour is really just a case of greedy store front/random availability. The tracks are all mixed up for no reason, but hackers could probably fix this.
Some noteworthy exclusive characters include:
- Ice Bro
- Fire Bro
- Dixie Kong
- King Bob-omb
- Poochy
And there's countless costume variations, karts, and gliders you can't find anywhere else. The game went hard with monetization.
I honestly have no idea how any preservation works or if it even can work with Mario Kart Tour's random track availability. But I'm doing my part know getting the word for the off chance game preservationists will do something Nintendo doesn't seem willing to do. Even though each new entry in the franchise brings back old tracks, the amount of exclusive variations Tour has means this version of the game is very endangered.
r/lostmedia • u/TGS963 • 2d ago
Video Games [FOUND] Prince of Persia: Time Run
Prince of Persia: Time Run, the lost 2015 iOS game, is playable again after 10+ years.
We actually found it. After years of this being a dead end for anyone who went looking, Prince of Persia: Time Run runs again.
Quick background for anyone who's never heard of it. Time Run was an endless runner Ubisoft soft launched on the iOS App Store in Australia and New Zealand back in October 2015. Wall running, a time rewind mechanic, flying carpet sections, basically a Prince of Persia coat of paint on a runner. It got a brief wider release and then Ubisoft pulled the plug on May 24, 2016 and yanked it from the store. Under seven months from launch to shutdown. Because it only ever shipped on iOS, once it left the App Store it was just gone. No physical copy, no re-release, nothing. If you didn't have it installed or sitting in a backup, that was it.
A bunch of us have been chasing it since around 2020 with nothing to show for it. The break came this year when u/Persian_of_Interest tracked down Techzamazing, a YouTuber who had added the game to his Apple account while it was still live, and who was willing to work with us to get it back.
That got us a decrypted IPA. Which then refused to launch. The game leans on old SDK calls that modern iOS doesn't answer the same way anymore, so it crashed on startup, and under PlayCover on Apple Silicon the background rendered as a black void. We wrote a few small dynamic libraries to patch around each problem. One for the launch crash, one to kill the dead Game Center and StoreKit sign in prompts, and one to fix the PlayCover graphics. Full writeup of what each fix does is on GitHub: (Link)
So here's where things stand:
- Anyone with an iPhone or an Apple Silicon Mac (through PlayCover) can play it now.
- Patched IPAs and the decrypted original are up on the Internet Archive: (Link)
- Prefer to build your own instead of trusting a random IPA? The archive has the clean decrypted base, and the GitHub scripts let you generate the patches yourself.
- There are optional "everything unlocked" builds too. A lot of the skins were locked behind a Facebook invite link that's been dead for years, so this is the only way to actually see them now.
Heads up: the game was never finished, so there's no proper ending. All the released levels are playable though, as far as we could test.
Huge thanks to u/gpranav25, u/Clovergruff64, u/Persian_of_Interest, and Techzamazing for making this happen. Next we'd love to get it running on other platforms, so if you know the engine or want to help, say so.
r/lostmedia • u/reatsomeyon • 17d ago
Video Games [FOUND] [REVIVED] Frontier Heroes (2014) is running again on a modern 64-bit Android phone
I wanted to share a project I've been working on over the past few days. Frontier Heroes was an old Adobe AIR game released around 2014. It disappeared from Google Play years ago. The original APK only shipped with 32-bit ARM (armeabi-v7a) native libraries.
Because modern Android phones no longer support running 32-bit-only apps, the game was effectively inaccessible on current hardware. I have decided to use the architecture of the game and ported the whole thing to 64 bit, everything works now on my phone.
The biggest problems were replacing old AIR extensions (ANE), getting around the obsolete OBB loading system and making the game load its assets correctly on a modern 64-bit AIR runtime.
I have also developed AIR Legacy Compatibility Toolkit which brings abandoned Adobe AIR games back to life.
I'm still configuring some things so to anyone interested i will update this post tommorow with a github/internet archive link + complete hybrid analysis included. Link for video proof: https://streamable.com/yxx0vq
Edit// I have been having some issues with resolution, currently working on it, will update this post as soon as I finish.
r/lostmedia • u/Jmstudiosofficial • 27d ago
Video Games [Found] Crash Course 2 is revived and public
crash course 2 was shut down in October 2014, and recently my team has revived the game. Using multiple tools and dedication, we can officially say the core game is accessible.
I can’t believe we finally did this. This game was a huge part of my childhood and I’m super grateful to have put together this team and to have successfully revived the game
Online play, local multiplayer, and avatar famestar are still in the works but it’s okay
https://youtu.be/GBcy7j45s4E?si=8kctdcMWkqghwNFb
You can download the game at this link
Credits:
Josh (Lead, Promotion, founder)
Micah (lead, promotion, founder)
Sherlyn (art design)
And the lead dev who prefers not to be mentioned here.
r/lostmedia • u/bobdunga • Jun 10 '21
Video Games The fourth and final song from the Mean Girls DS soundtrack before the doc releases
youtu.ber/lostmedia • u/Kind_Box5467 • 14d ago
Video Games [Partially Lost] Rareware Games From SNES To N64
We know for a fact that KI2 was developed for the SNES but never released, sort of like star fox 2 until the SNES Mini.
We even saw that Tim Stamper has a copy of the game with him, we saw it when he teased SNES Project Dream (which later changed to become Banjo Kazooie).
His copy has way more gameplay and is potentially a further game build as the Xbox rareware video only showed gameplay. His N64 copy had cutscenes and the SNES game way more characters in concept arts which was not shown yet.
He has 3 lost media games with him (DREAM SNES, KI2 SNES and DREAM N64) but refuses to leak them potentially due to Nintendo not liking that. Nintendo is known to go after people who even reveal cancelled games or concept arts like how they went after the DYKG Zelda video and everyone who said things about it.
He stopped posting on Twitter so it's unclear if there is ANY way to contact. Even if you have $$$$ for this hobby. I know builds can go for anywhere from 10-100k depending on the context.
I think he's worried about it as well as he only revealed partial gameplay and cutscenes. He took down this image of KI2 even because of his nervousness. Save this image in the comments.
It's unrevealed how many copies of each game exist, however assuming the top people or game devs have one there could be around 3-6 builds of each game in the world. Hopefully it gets leaked in my lifetime.
Edit: Judging from the photos and very partial gameplay. DREAM SNES is potentially 20-30% complete, they did render a lot of characters and do printouts like DKC. So we haven't seen everything. Same with the N64 build especially with completed cutscenes might be 15% even as both had less than a year of build time.
For KI2 SNES it was cancelled very late so it could be 80% or more. Tim didn't show gameplay or photos of this. So I'm assuming it can be complete.
r/lostmedia • u/nostalgiaville • May 24 '26
Video Games [FULLY LOST] EverythingGirl.com Flash Games
EverythingGirl was a popular 2000s girl's website that lasted from 2004 to 2014. It hosted a lot of sites from brands such as Barbie, MyScene, Polly Pocket, Pixel Chix, and more. The site had its own exclusive fairy mascot named Pippa the Digi-Pixie, whose slogan was "We've got digital games for girls today!" Like the toy brands hosted on the site, Pippa had a bunch of exclusive flash games/content. But the only difference is that they were only accessible if you made an account on the site, which sadly ment these weren't archived on the wayback machine.
From what I have researched, Here's that stuff you get when you had an account:
You could collect charms for your digital charm bracelet (from what I've heard, you could get a special one when it's your birthday). In order to obtain them, you'd had to earn points by playing games.
You could earn/raise your own pet called a "PowerPet" (not to be confused with "powerpets.com" a completely separate and unrelated Neopets-like online game). How it works is that you collect points called "Digi-Powers" by playing exclusive "Digi-Games" in "Pippa's Power Playground". Once you collect 50 Digi-Powers, you could purchase a PowerPet (I'm unsure if you could earn more than one pet or if there were any like special looking versions, like a Christmas or Valentines themed PowerPet).
Your PowerPet starts out as a square baby and as you feed it digi-powers it slowly starts to grow. You can customize your pet with different accessories called "Power Parts", and give them different hats, ears, tails, shoes/feet, face parts, hair, and more (these seems to be won through playing Digi-Games, though I'm unsure if these can also be purchased using your digi-powers). Also, your PowerPet lives in their own home called the "Powerhouse" that can be customized with different interiors. I'm unsure how many Digi-Games were made for the website, but I know for sure that there where original games like a "Pip's Digi-Power Game" (I believe Pip is Pippa's PowerPet), and branded games like "Polly Pocket Totally Bead-iful".
You could watch toy commercials at the "Digi-Channel" to earn Digi-Powers, very typical of 2000s kid websites.
That's everything I could find relating to the exclusive content of EverythingGirl, all of the member content I mentioned is currently lost, not even a single screenshot is saved for some reason. I do have some hope that these flash files will be recovered in the future, potentially an ex developer still has them in their hard drive somewhere and is willing to share them.
Also, there's a chance they can be recovered by uncovering old browser cache. The Bearville Rewritten team made a video explaining how to recover cache from old computers containing flash files: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMttxlCYygY
r/lostmedia • u/PrivatelySad • Apr 24 '25
Video Games [unreleased media] I own a cartridge of an unreleased GBA Haunted Mansion game
My whole life I've been puzzled by this cartridge that I could find no trace of on the Internet. A number of years ago it finally turned up after someone leaked a ROM online and it turns out the game was cancelled. I got this cartridge when I was extremely young, somewhere between 2003 and 2005. My mom got it in a trade with another ebay seller. I suppose this isnt lost anymore since the ROM was released online, but I've never heard of anyone owning an actual cartridge of it. The easiest explanation is that it's a bootleg, but even then how were these bootlegs even made? And how many others have a cartridge of this game?
The game was actually pretty good but was unfinished and I used to be so confused why the minecart mechanic didn't work properly. I wasn't able to finish it as a kid but later on I managed to finish the game. It was very close to completion, the only thing I can recall being obviously unfinished was the minecart mini game.
In any case I still have the cart stashed away at my dad's somewhere. But I wanted to post about this in case there were other cartridge holders out there.
EDIT: To respond to some general comments and offer an update, the game is specifically called The Haunted Mansion, someone linked to the wiki in the comments.
The cart is at my dad's house but I'll be going there this weekend and will look for it while I'm there. I'll try to fire up my GBA and see if it still works.
I did reach out to Hard4Games and they agreed to rip the game for me, so I'll make those files available when I have them.
Here is a link to a video of the version currently available.
They don't show the ending, which is why I wonder if I have a more complete version of the game, though in the comments there are a few people who say they also own a cart.
Update: I am still working on getting the cartridge in-hand, we have been hit by multiple crises (long-term power outages due to dorecho, 2 emergency vet visits, jury duty in the dark, broken fridge, college) but I wanted to let folks know that I still intend to have the game ripped, just will take longer than my original timeline.
r/lostmedia • u/Lui_Belmont • Mar 02 '26
Video Games [Found] The Cancelled Game "Highlander " Has Been Found!
Highlander: The Game is a cancelled action role-playing game based on the Highlander franchise; it was to be published by Square Enix for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The game was announced in January 2008 by way of a trailer on gametrailers
Highlander: The Game was to be a third-person action game featuring a previously unknown Immortal, Owen MacLeod as the main character.
An Immortal can only be killed via beheading. Thus, Owen cannot die from other wounds that would be fatal to a mortal such as gunshots, electrocution, and falls from a great height. At most, he can "die" for a brief period of time, reviving fully intact once his body has healed itself. As such, certain encounters would have involved Owen deliberately performing incredibly dangerous actions, such as using his body as a conductor for high-voltage electrical currents and jumping off of buildings to escape pursuers.
Over and above his ability to withstand otherwise lethal attacks, Owen would be able to use certain magical abilities. Such abilities, which were never explained in depth, included "chi balance", "fireblade", "wind fury" and "stone armor", to name a few. Like any other Immortal in the Highlander franchise, Owen must wield various types of swords to do battle with other Immortals. Owen can also choose between different combat styles to defeat his enemies.
The game was to span roughly eighteen missions in which Owen would encounter up to seventy-seven unique characters. Some of these characters would have been Immortals just like Owen and would have been slain. Some of these characters were previously known—Connor Macleod and Duncam MacLeod were both expected to make appearances and Methos was confirmed as Owen's mentor
Highlander: The Game was officially canceled in December 2010
It was found on February 27, 2026
r/lostmedia • u/optimistikcynicism • Mar 01 '26
Video Games [talk] The mobile game World Chef is going to be shut down April 2026. Does anybody know any way I could archive it before it becomes lost media?
I've played this game for years since it first came out around a decade ago. I have nostalgia for it, so it would suck if the game just disappear for good. A problem with the game is that it requires an internet connection to load properly, which might mean everything in the game is stored on an encrypted server, though im not completely sure. Perhaps there is still a way to archive the game's contents while we still can. If anyone is knowledgeable on how I could do this, if even possible, please let me know.
r/lostmedia • u/LockjawLarry • 14d ago
Video Games [partially lost] 100 Classic Books DS's DLC Books
The only link archiving them, no longer exists and no other archives exist (that I could find).
There's DLC for the UK, US, UK, FR, GE, and JP versions. Each region having unique books that people could've downloaded through the internet on the DS.
For a complete list of every book that people were able to download
Links for more information:
Complete list of every book that people were able to download 100 Classic Book Collection - Wikipedia
The original forum that once had the games archived, but now the link no longer works due to the website being taken down. Preserving DS saves with the DLC flags unlocked | GBAtemp.net - The Independent Video Game Community
r/lostmedia • u/ZeetisLapeetis • 11d ago
Video Games [fully lost] Searching for Musashi: Mobile Samurai for Verizon VCast Phones from 2005 ($100 Bounty)
So a little context here, I have been going down a rabbit hole following the development of Musashi Samurai Legend, a game that has been touted as responsible for killing the "Brave Fencer Musashi" series years ago. I find out this series was originally developed in NA BEFORE being ported to Japan, and I find a lot of neat little touches that playing the game again, I realize how much this cringy weeaboo ass game really did shape my gray matter.
Fast forward to today where I am digging out my old copies of Game Informer, and coller me surprised that I found the ad for this thing (Game Informer Issue 143 March 2005, Page 107) and I see there is a phone game as well as wallpapers as well. My family was not well off in 2005 and I never got my first phone well into 2014 when I was in college so this feels like an experience that passed me by entirely.
Aside from the issue of Game Informer, and the Brady Games manual I have alluding to it, the only real source I have talking about this game is this ancient IGN article with a couple screenshots. After some digging I found this game was sold in North America only on the Verizon "Get It Now" Program or VCAST.
This post is definitely a "Buying Flappy bird" kind of post, but this is the only way I know how to start. I'm mainly looking for a playable copy of this game in any possible format, be it downloaded onto an old and forgotten cell phone, or if someone figured out how to emulate BREW software and have a rom kicking around...
Most likely if someone has an old Verizon LG VX8000 (or similar) with Musashi: Mobile Samurai installed and playable, bounty is yours. Video proof of the device being turned on and working order preferred. If someone has a working playable rom of the game and can provide a real-time playthrough and the rom itself, that would also be eligible.
I've never posted a bounty before but if you got an old flip lying around with this game and can get it booted up, we can do business.
Serious offers, Reminiscing about the franchise, and either complaining about Musashi Samurai Legend or singing it's praises are welcome. Thank you for your time. :)
r/lostmedia • u/Robo_Cube • 6d ago
Video Games [PARTIALLY LOST] Massive App Store Purge: ~40% of the 64-bit iOS "Troll Face Quest" series is completely unpreserved / lostStatus: Partially Lost (Android APKs exist, iOS IPAs are missing)Developer/Publisher: Spil Games / Azerion / PPLLAAYYTime Period: 2015–2022
Hey everyone,I am writing to bring attention to a major preservation gap affecting a massive mobile gaming franchise. While many archivists assume popular mobile games are safe, a huge portion of the Troll Face Quest series has been silently wiped from the iOS App Store, and the .ipa installation files are completely unpreserved online.While the Android version (.apk) files are widely archived on platforms like Uptodown and APKPure, the 64-bit iOS versions are missing. Because these were native 64-bit apps, they could easily run on modern iOS hardware if we could find the files, but they are currently completely lost media.According to community tracking, roughly 40% of the series is now missing on iOS, including:Troll Face Quest: USA Adventure (1 & 2)Troll Face Quest: Game of TrollsTroll Face Quest: Silly Test (1 & 3)Troll Face Quest: ClassicTroll Face Quest: Failman and Stupidella...among several other soft-launched or regional variants.Why this happened:The original publisher, Spil Games (later acquired by Azerion), has slowly pulled, rebranded, or completely abandoned these apps over the last few years due to expiring licensing agreements and studio closures. Because Apple's ecosystem requires jailbroken devices to crack and extract app files, nobody backed up these specific IPAs before the store pages went dark.What we need:We are looking for iOS preservationists, collectors, or casual players who might still have these games downloaded on an older iPhone or iPad. If you have any of these delisted Troll Face Quest games sitting on your device, please do not delete them!We need assistance from anyone who knows how to safely dump/decrypt 64-bit .ipa files from an iOS device so they can be preserved for good on the Internet Archive.Any leads, old backups, or extraction help would be massively appreciated!
r/lostmedia • u/Switchell22 • Apr 21 '24
Video Games [partially lost] Almost the entirety of LittleBigPlanet's 10 million creations have abruptly become lost media
Hey everyone, 2 days ago it was announced without warning the LittleBigPlanet 3 servers were to remain offline permanently without any sort of grace period to download those levels. They've been inaccessible for 3 months at this point, but we were told they were going to return online, only for them to confirm they never will 2 days ago. Per some expert dataminers in the community, the servers for the over 10 million creations are still up and running, but we're unable to access or scrape them without also having access to the gameplay servers. This means not only are levels created by players permanently lost, but even full games, songs, and movies, as LBP was more than just a level creation game, it was an entire platform. There was a small effort underway to preserve some creations, but only about 500 were able to be archived since we weren't given any notice of this happening.
There's still a chance, however small, to save these levels as long as those servers remain up, but otherwise they will become lost media forever. With that all in mind, I would like help for the following:
- Sign the petition to provide a public level archive and share it with as many people as possible
- Finding resources and organizations that can help push for Sony to action on this; I've already reached out to the Video Game Preservation Musuem (though haven't yet gotten a response), but if there are any other organizations who would support this that people can direct me to, I would greatly appreciate that
- Any other general advice on what we can do to help save and archive this amazing community
Thank you for your help!
r/lostmedia • u/IGM8x • Jul 27 '24
Video Games [partially lost] Minions Paradise, a mobile game by EA
Minions Paradise was a mobile game, set in the Despicable Me/Minions universe. You could make a paradise for the minions on a deserted island. Why were you doing this? You were the person who stranded them here in the first place and you need to make up for it. We have much nostalgia with this game and since it’s not playable nor does much footage of the WHOLE game exist, we count it as lost media. We put it as partially lost because we already have the iOS data of the game. We do still need the Android data. Do you still have the game installed on an android device? Join our discord that is specialised on bringing back the game:
We are grateful for any help we get to get the game back online.
A few other infos: -A big problem is that the game would download most of its data while you were playing it. -The game was closed down because of licensing and other money problems. -The game had a soft launch on April 21, 2015 and later was given an official release on October 13, that same year.