If I were to get a nickel for every J2ME game with a word salad title, I'd have at least two nickels.

On the topic of Mega Man feature phone games for MIDP (Western J2ME platform), I found the archived page of the publisher "8elements" that released Rockman mobile games in Asia: 1, 2, 3, Space Rescue, and the undumped localized ports of Rockman GP and Rockman Panic Fire.

Thanks to an accidental find by researcher Pirate Dragon, some never-before-seen Sega mobile games for J2ME cell phones can now be played. This includes Monkey Ball (full version), Vectorman and Virtua Cop.

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.

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).

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)

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!)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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)

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)

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.

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.

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