Preserving Lost Japanese Games ft. @StopSkeletonsFromFighting

DidYouKnowGaming delves into the video game preservation efforts currently taking place to preserve hundreds of lost Japanese mobile phone games.


Voice Over by @StopSkeletonsFromFighting
Research/Writing by Dr Lava
Video Editing by TheCartoonGamer

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#videogames #japan #japanesegames

[EmeraldLance]

11:20 That MF left his bomb shelter to go and grab some cell phone games to dump while he was under attack from the Russians?! That's a real one, right there.

[RockmanCosmo]

Thank you to DKYG for letting me and the keitai game preservation community work so closely with them on this video! We appreciate the opportunity, and we look forward to uncovering more keitai game history!

[safebox]

Japanese game preservation is a bizarre phenomenon.
Because the Japanese gaming community isn't big into preservation even within the Lost Media community, but the ones that do exist are on obscure blogs and websites that are hard to find even for those that can search in Japanese.

Like gaming history in the East in general is fairly unknown to westerners.
A lot of gaming "firsts" happened with Korean or Japanese titles that were for region-exclusive consoles or non-translated entries.

[RadikAlice]

Much respect to Kraze, imagine your country's getting the scorched earth treatment but you're so dedicated you get out of the shelter just to do that

[DizzyDenver]

Long time fan of DYKG, its been really incredible to watch this channel go from (and I say this with love) glorified gaming fact compilation videos with relatively common game facts, to the forefront of gaming journalism and game preservation. Really proud of y’all for growing the channel instead of what many would have done and just phone it in and farm views.

[kilik]

Shoutout to kraze who literally risked his life for preservation

[robocami]

I joined the Keitai preservation society a little over a year ago. I've been editing the wiki for a long time, and I am so honored that you mentioned Pokemon Hiroba and other topics I have written about! Much thanks from Robo

[diebesgrab]

The problem with digital-only distribution is the fact that it cultivates a culture of disposability for software, which makes it easier for things to fall between the cracks. When you add in obscure and obsolete hardware like pre-smartphone cell phones, it gets even worse. While I’ve known about the problem of cell phone games getting lost (Before Crisis is and always has been the FFVII tie in I’m most interested in), I didn’t really know anything about the cell phone software preservation community before this video, but you guys are awesome. Thanks to DYKG for putting a spotlight on them, too.

[IIOver]

Huge respect to the people finding preserving/translating these hidden gems, crazy to see what Japan was playing back in the day, interesting af.

[potatobob]

One thing I'd like to add on Atlas suing fans over SMT: Imagine, it was only done because of a certain private server using the old Imagine website and removing Altus's Trademark info. There currently is a fan server up and running now known as New Moon which Atlus USA is aware of and has left alone.

[raypuiaascii]

I've been on the whole Keitai preservation a while after it's conception as an active contributor of the wiki.
I'm honored to be part of this effort documenting as much was the Web Archive has in it's database and Google not being shit.
Greetings from the wiki by RaypuiaASCII :D

[CoreyOgburn]

It blows my mind that early 2000s phones were capable of these smooth framerates and gameplay.

[Jumpsuperfun]

This passion for games is palpable, thank you for sharing the community efforts and thank you community for everything🎉

[YuviApp]

So happy to be apart of this journey! Thank you, DYKG, for helping us preserve these games!

[TheomanZero]

I honestly thought this was hopeless and that I just had to accept all of these games getting lost forever, but I guess I underestimated the community. Thank you to everyone!

[barry-allenthe-flash]

It's amazing how I could not give a sh** about "phone games" 99% of the time, but _if UNCLE DEREK SAYS THEY'RE IMPORTANT_ than damn it, *I care!* 😄
Fascinating stuff to learn about, and amazing effort you guys! Very cool to hear about this stuff.

[svenbtb]

This is awesome, I've been reading a lot of articles about this recently so it's great to see this information getting shared on a big channel like DYKG. I don't think I have the skills to help sadly but even raising awareness helps SO much, this video is the perfect piece to help people understand what's at stake. Huge, HUGE props to everyone doing the preservation work!

[RevrenD]

First, let me say a huge huge huge thank you to not only DYKG for bringing awareness to this niche corner of the gaming world, but especially to the absolute legends who are doing all this work to preserve, catalog and rejuvenating these games... Sincerely, it's one of those things people will recount in books about saving an industry...

[skirsk]

11:58 "we're not going to delve into the long and very technical details of dumping" i don't know why but when he said that it made me laugh.

[henrygreen]

I am genuinely inspired by game preservationists. The story at 11:00 where the gentlemen wrote code to brute force a phone code is so simple yet cool. I wish I could do stuff like that. But I just didn't grow up in the preservationist space. Not even the strongest coder really.

Any preservationist reading this you are a inspiration. And thank you.