Harrastajat onnistuivat lähes mahdottomassa ja saivat pelastettua kaikki iPod-soittimille julkaistut pelit vuosituhannen alusta

Projekti vaikutti lähes mahdottomalta, sillä ainoa tapa löytää clickwheel iPodeille julkaistut pelit, oli löytää ihmisiä, joilla lojuu edelleen iPod pöytälaatikossa *ja* siinä on edelleen joku kadonneista peleistä.

Tuon jälkeenkin pelien pelastaminen jälkipolville vaati aika paljon purkkaa ja virittelyä. Mutta lopulta kaikki koskaan julkaistut 54 peliä saatiin pelastettua.

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/09/10/apple-ipod-clickwheel-pelit-pelastusoperaatio

#apple #ipod #appleipod #clickwheel #pelit #historia #retro #uutiset

All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/all-54-lost-clickwheel-ipod-games-have-now-been-preserved-for-posterity/

#HackerNews #lostgames #clickwheel #iPod #preservation #gaminghistory #nostalgia

Ars Technica: All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity. “With today’s addition of Real Soccer 2009 to the project … all 54 official iPod clickwheel games are now available together in an easily accessible format for what is likely the first time.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/09/ars-technica-all-54-lost-clickwheel-ipod-games-have-now-been-preserved-for-posterity/

At least some game preservation projects are successful!

All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/all-54-lost-clickwheel-ipod-games-have-now-been-preserved-for-posterity/

#Apple #iPod #Clickwheel #Preservation #Gaming

Oh don't mind me, I'm just over here having some nostalgia playing with my resurrected fifth-generation iPod. Playing Mahjong on a click wheel is frustratingly tedious, but the music and sound effects are beautiful.

#Apple #iPod #clickwheel #memory #nostalgia #mahjong #game

https://flic.kr/p/2qvuYE8

A very interesting effort to preserve the iPod click-wheel games: using a virtual machine that can sync them to an iPod! 47 out of the 54 total released games are available.

I only had Spore Origins myself, but I lost the installation file. Can’t wait to install and play it again on my iPod nano 3rd gen 😌

Project GitHub: https://github.com/Olsro/ipodclickwheelgamespreservationproject

ArsTechnica article about it: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/ipod-fans-evade-apples-drm-to-preserve-54-lost-clickwheel-era-games/

#iPod #clickwheel #ipodnano #ipodclassic