Great work! I'm the guy that's working on recompiling the iPod games for modern systems (I'm mentioned by the top comment in your Reddit post). Have you tried installing the games in the emulator? If so, this would be a huge step in figuring out the DRM so people can dump their own games. That would lead to more games being supported in siggifly's 5.5G emulator [1] and eventually the games can be brought to more modern platforms.
Do you remember if it was named Musika? [1] If so, that game has actually been decrypted so I could work on a recomp. There's also Phase [2] which seems like the more likely pick. Unfortunately, it was never decrypted. I modeled out the Metadata db structure that the iPod OS exposed to games that represented its iTunesDB so I should be able to support custom songs/albums in a recomp in the future. Long term, I'd love to be able to BYO API key for Spotify and expose your Spotify library to the game as your "iPod's" music. I feel like that would modernize the experience. I'll get there when work calms down and I'm no longer working 60 hour work weeks :(
I saw your work and I thought it was excellent; that's another step I want to take: being able to run the games and the cover flow! We're one step away from making the iPod free forever.
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Great work! I'm the guy that's working on recompiling the iPod games for modern systems (I'm mentioned by the top comment in your Reddit post). Have you tried installing the games in the emulator? If so, this would be a huge step in figuring out the DRM so people can dump their own games. That would lead to more games being supported in siggifly's 5.5G emulator [1] and eventually the games can be brought to more modern platforms.
[1] https://github.com/siggifly/ipod-emulator/ I made the PR that allowed it to run dumped games fwiw
Oh nice! There were 2 games I loved playing on my iPod Nano I would love to try again
-Spore, basically the first phase of PC Spore game, was still fun though.
-This one game which was like guitar hero, but used the clickwheel and would automatically generate tracks from your songs.
Do you remember if it was named Musika? [1] If so, that game has actually been decrypted so I could work on a recomp. There's also Phase [2] which seems like the more likely pick. Unfortunately, it was never decrypted. I modeled out the Metadata db structure that the iPod OS exposed to games that represented its iTunesDB so I should be able to support custom songs/albums in a recomp in the future. Long term, I'd love to be able to BYO API key for Spotify and expose your Spotify library to the game as your "iPod's" music. I feel like that would modernize the experience. I'll get there when work calms down and I'm no longer working 60 hour work weeks :(
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuF_i7N2M4
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9scEk1_lQXc
I saw your work and I thought it was excellent; that's another step I want to take: being able to run the games and the cover flow! We're one step away from making the iPod free forever.