/v/ - Video Games

J2me had a bunch of short novelty games.

Orcs and Elves 1 and 2, Doom RPG and Wolfenstein RPG still hold up. You could probably emulate those on your smartphones nowadays.

Orcs and Elves 1 had a DS version but 2 is J2ME only.

Doom RPG is my shit. Hard to find a properly working JAR and emulate it though.

I liked vid related as a kid.

Another one i used to play was this 3d minigolf game i can't really find the name of. It had knight armors as some sort of obstacle if i remember correctly. Pretty good.

I remember a platformer you played as a ball. I don't remember anything else, it was very simple and very fun, probably the best java phone game I played back then.

It had a neat gimmick where the lava would keep rising, the longer it took you to finish the level, though looking at the walkthrough the movements were more clunky than I remembered them to be, but fuck me if I didn't play the shit out of this.

>>15395025

I think I know the game you are referring to, I remember playing with my classmates during class, secretly passing the phone from one to another.

I vaguely remember a turn tactics RPG SWAT game with 13 or so missions that I played in one of those early color screen Nokias and it was the best buck I ever spent on a mobile game. The sprites were tiny but serviceable, you had many choices of weapons and grenades, there was permadeath for dead squad mates, and there was a short comic-esque scene wherever someone was shot.

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>>15395025

Found it, the video even comes with a "classic" song.

>>15395050

Yeah, it's this exact one lmao. Thanks

It's weird being nostalgic for such games, but I guess it's also because nobody had a handheld at my school, so phone games were the best way to enjoy vidya with your nerd friend during recess and during classes.

>>15395138

Gameloft used to make good games back then. I fondly remember the Splinter Cell games that made for great stealth platformers. They even had a ninja jRPG clearly inspired by Naruto, but it had plenty of content and nice sprites, and I loved that turn-based battleship game. IIRC they even made a Castlevania knockoff.

Gameloft is a shitty Ubisoft-tier company btw

>>15395354

They're owned by ubisoft nowadays.

But they made good games in the j2me days.

>>15395354

Yeah, but they used to make pretty good games back in the day. As far as java mobile games go

This one was decent. They should have done something along these lines for the GBA and not the ugly as hell The Revenge of Shinobi remake we ended getting.

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>>15395425

Their games was a ripoffs of big famous series with nothing but QTEs in gameplay. At least 2D graphics was descent. I played all Gangstar and Zombie Infection games, Asphalt series, that game about cops, PoP and Splinter Cell ports and many others, so I'm know what I talking about.

>>15395936

that not exactly QWERTY keyboard unnerves me.

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>>15395973

Why

There were also a bunch of j2me only Resident Evil games. I have them with me but I haven't touched them

Thanks for this thread OP. I remember playing the old Asphalts, Mafia Wars and Splinter Cells. Gameloft truly were the masters of their craft. fuck COM2US

I also remember playing some Chinese Metal Slug copy. Can't remember the name.

>>15401955

>>second game was already set to be launched in the west

>>EA Korea buys the company and cancels said launch

If you're dedicated enough you could probably translate it. I remember editing text in J2ME games being as simple as opening the file as an archive and dragging and dropping

Anyone has any of the JAPANESE j2me games?

The docomo / imode / roid / moja ones.

Those are by far more interesting. The file extension is jam as opposed to jar, and there's some videos of people using simulators to play them on computers.

I found zero information about them except for two clock wallpapers (and they came in both jam and jar formats).

>>15402495

I'm also kind of curious for crazy crossovers like vidrelated. When I saw its title in a YT search I thought it was some kind of Mugen or OpenBOR game, but it happened to be an officially released Japanese mobile game.

"Remember when G-mode bought Data East's IP way back when (February 2004)? Turns out the Japanese mobile developer has more than just Burger Time and Bump 'n' Jump cell phone ports in store for us. This newly-announced collaboration of SNK Playmore and G-mode results in the latter giving us (or at least Japanese mobile users) "Garou Densetsu vs. Fighter's History Dynamite" in Spring 2007, and SNK now has the freedom to use Fighter's History characters in their future arcade and console game titles."

>>15403941

You have to raise awareness first. Flash is dying in 2020 and the preservation effort for that is going hard enough.

>>15395029

Bounce Tales.

I used to play this one boxing game where you could upgrade your trainer to get better stats (an old man, a nigger, a woman and a middle aged guy) and the last few fights were boxers from different planets, a really good SOTN rip-off, two resident evil games that had PS1 tier graphics, several metal slug games and a south park platformer on my motorola razr, i don't remember their names though, and i also had a old ass green screen nokia with 2 games i haven't been able to find anywhere, one was more or less a quality demake/port of In The Hunt and the other was a platformer where you had to collect keys and find the exit, and you had to run away from enemies because touching them was fatal, it wasn't very good but i remember it because it made use of the wilhelm scream whenever you died.

>>15403941

>is there anything being done to preserve j2me games at all?

Looks like somebody on archive.org already thought about that. He's also asking people to contact him if they own any J2ME game not included in the zip file he made.

"This item is part of an effort to archive as many J2ME software as

possible before it disappears completely. Focus is on early era games

(2002-2005).

Collection of 1000+ year 2002-2005 J2ME games for early Java mobile phones.

Browse .zip

If you still have J2ME games from that era lying around somewhere, please,

any help is appreciated: contact me at Nokia64 (at) protonmail (dot) com "

https://archive.org/details/1000_J2ME_Games_Pack

>hooktube embed

Are you retarded, OP?

>>15395050

NOTHING WRONG WITH ME

>>15396208

>t. manlets with tiny hands

>>15412734

There are hundreds of russian sites with java games from this age still alive:

sefan.ru

my-moto.ru

rugame.mobi

java.mob.org.ru

>>15394693

Orcs and Elves was actually fun. Played the DS version a long time ago.

>>15395956

QWERTZ? I think that's how they do it in Germany or some other vile place. You should see a French keyboard.