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For the first time in emulation, the J2ME Nokia phone port of the Sega arcade classic Fantasy Zone can be played without graphical issues (using nightly builds of FreeJ2ME-Plus), big props to AShiningRay. This is a faithful port of the game, albeit with squished graphics.

09.07.2025 20:03 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Upon recent re-examination of #J2ME cell phone related archives, I found stuff I wasn't aware of, such as:
- Doom RPG (Nokia 6280 version) unedited dump;
- #Rayman Raving Rabbids, version for old Nokia phones with tiny 96x65 resolution screens (see video).

24.06.2025 15:45 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Cancel culture is such an unfunny joke these days. If you really feel like ruining someone's life because of something they've said off-hand 4 years ago, then you're the problem.

13.06.2025 23:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry for the absence lately, been busy AND having various tech issues.

22.04.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy belated Easter. The J2ME port of the Euro retro computer classic Jet Set Willy appears to include an exclusive Easter egg room. I don't know how to access it the intended way, but I've gotten into it before on video using a glitch. (Spoiler alert on the video)

22.04.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"Rockman - The blue bomber returns for his most celebrated adventure."

"Rockman 2 - Rockman is back!"

"Rockman 3 - Dr. Wily n his robot masters are at it again n only blue bomber can save the day in this perfect adaptation of the original console classic."

Continuing on: Rockman 1-3 for J2ME (not Mega Man!) were released in Indonesia and were available at least in 2012. These versions aren't preserved and few people know about them, and it's not clear if 2 and 3 are based on the JP/CN or the US/EU releases. (tysm to Pirate Dragon for the tip!)

07.04.2025 22:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I checked the North American J2ME release of Gradius Neo, and there's definitely something funny with its frame pacing, so no wonder the Japanese version also has issues on emu. The NA version differs in performance depending on emu settings, so I can test on hardware later and record a video.

04.04.2025 14:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Example of an archived Asian Sega store. Some of these J2ME games are lost media.

Various Japanese feature phone games got official overseas releases for Western J2ME phones (Nokia, etc.), most commonly in China, but sometimes in Southeast Asia (in English) and occasionally even in the Americas or Europe. Many of these were/are poorly documented, such as the Asian Sega releases.

03.04.2025 20:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Title screen

Gameplay screenshot 1

Gameplay screenshot 2

Gameplay screenshot 3

Keitai Shojo: Ayano Spirits is a game released in Japan by G-mode for feature phones, and is part of their dating sim series. Also of note, however, is the dumped Chinese-language version released on J2ME by Joymaster. The game takes up almost 1MB of storage and has nice effects and music.

03.04.2025 20:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Sum of All Fears (2002) title screen

"You are Jack Ryan, Deputy Director of the Central <...>"

"1. See what the lie of the land is with Israel? 2. See what the <...>"

"Golovko says: Listen, Jack. I am here because I need some advice, and maybe some help from your <...>"

Here's a J2ME game I've not heard of before - Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears. Unlike other versions, this is not a shooter, but a monochrome graphical adventure where you choose between political decisions.

03.04.2025 19:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's what you get for having so many device versions in 5 languages separately. These demos or ad-supported versions were surprisingly commonplace on J2ME, and many of them can't go in-game anymore.

30.03.2025 23:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Title screen of WWTBAM 2010 Part 2

Cutscene screenshot of a 3D rendered view of the game show hall

"Fastest Finger: Earliest first, put these US presidents in order. A: Bill Clinton. B: Jimmy Carter. C: Gerald Ford. D: Ronald Reagan."

"Bad Luck! You've scored 0 bonus points."

The J2ME game Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 2010 Part 2 is remarkable for having over 1700 preserved versions of the game, though all but 22 of those are "dead" trial versions from the now-defunct J2ME section of the freeware app site GetJar.

30.03.2025 23:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The game itself is a simplistic implementation with now-dead online high scores and slightly ugly rescaled graphics, but it's always interesting to see overseas ports of Japanese-developed games (complete with filenames in Japanese written out with the Latin alphabet). (2/2)

29.03.2025 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gameplay screenshot of Puzzle Bobble for Sprint

Some emulation news, a while ago asdf @oldphonepreserv.bsky.social dumped the previously-lost Puzzle Bobble for Sprint (J2ME) from a Samsung SPH-A900, and today Shinovon (author of KEmulator nnmod) pushed the fixes to make it playable on his emulator. Big props to everyone involved as usual. (1/2)

29.03.2025 19:12 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Screenshots of the mysterious Bouncy puzzle game: gameplay, high scores, name entry and level.

During research, I stumbled upon this document that shows off a game in Carbello's "Bouncy" series (no direct relation to Bounce by Nokia) with puzzle gameplay. I'm not sure if this game has had a release or if it's just a demo for educational purposes: web.archive.org/web/20240915... (2/2)

28.03.2025 23:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Title screen with the game's logo

Portraits of four characters preparing to race. "Piloti pronti? Avviate i motori"

Starting a tournament race on the school table

Starting a head-to-head race on the lunch table

The classic Micro Machines racing game series has a J2ME entry developed by Carbello (Sweden), which is a decent game for an early-ish release. 3 versions are preserved, but, as it sometimes happens, the best version is in Italian. The other 2 lose in performance or content. (1/2)

28.03.2025 23:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Main menu of the low-resolution (128x160) version

Intro cutscene

Talking to a character

Gameplay. Note that the graphical bug above the HUD is not due to emulation, it's present on phones as well.

There is a lot, and I mean a lot of game files to work with, and not many people to look through those; needless to say, there have been random discoveries that have taken me and some others by surprise. One of my favorites is this teeny-tiny Doom II RPG version for phones with low-res screens.

27.03.2025 19:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sony Ericsson K800i, a phone famous at the time for its excellent Java game performance. (Pic: GSMArena)

Hi folks! I'd like to revive this account and try to post regularly about Western J2ME (Java ME) game preservation. There are various blogs on this website dedicated to the highly active scene of Japanese phone preservation, but interesting things happen in relation to Western games as well.

27.03.2025 19:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

sicon

why would you need that when you have sonic advance j2me

08.12.2024 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

flawless port

19.10.2024 18:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

FASE 2: BLUE SKY ZONE

what sup bluesky

17.10.2024 19:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

everyone talks about the rickroll in Chrono Trigger but what about the Despacito in Mega Man X youtu.be/miyHmQCllWo

27.11.2023 13:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

relatable

01.11.2023 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0