TwoSpacesSG
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He/They, 23. "Musician", "speedrunner" and "video game archivist". Gonna be trying to post about retro mobile games and occasionally about random other stuff.
It's an emulation bug of J2ME Loader. I think Sonic 1 Part 1 and Sonic Jump (aka Tectoy's Sonic Jump 2) sound even more bass boosted there.
September 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It's an emulation bug of J2ME Loader. I think Sonic 1 Part 1 and Sonic Jump (aka Tectoy's Sonic Jump 2) sound even more bass boosted there.
Sorry for the absence lately, been busy AND having various tech issues.
April 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Sorry for the absence lately, been busy AND having various tech issues.
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.
April 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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.
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.
April 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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.
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.
March 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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.
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)
March 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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)
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)
March 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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)
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.
March 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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.
why would you need that when you have sonic advance j2me
December 8, 2024 at 11:28 PM
why would you need that when you have sonic advance j2me