xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@coolboymew @Moon Where's the bathroom?

@pawlicker @coolboymew I didn't even know what Brew was when I still used that phone. Not like I care about mobile games anyway.

It seems like fangames made more of an effort on those phones. There was a fan-remake of Zelda 1 using graphics from Minish Cap being developed for Java phones (I played it on an emulator), but the developer quit after having a daughter.

@netdoll @meso @pernia @PhenomX6 @mia @errante @bot @animeirl It isn't compatible with SFML. Not that many games use that, but still.

@pawlicker @coolboymew I had a Samsung Brightside. I don't think it was Java based.

@pawlicker @coolboymew Not all of them. The only feature phone I had couldn't sideload.

@coolboymew PDA games might be easier to find, but feature phone games is probably a different story. Most of them didn't have Wi-Fi and carriers would charge you for even browsing their catalog, so most people didn't bothered to check them out, unless you can side-load Java applications via USB or PC removable storage.

@coolboymew I don't know if they were Java programs. I don't know Apple's relationship with Java, but I bet they used something proprietary or their Objective-C language. From what I've heard, the games were all zip files with a different extension.

But mobile games, PDA games, etc from the pre-smartphone era desperately need to be preserved. It feels like people forgot that those games existed.

@coolboymew iPod Classic and iPod Nano (I think there were other models as well) had them. Apple discontinued them in 2011.

They were basically on par with Java flip-phone games but used the click-wheel so they were even more limited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_game

@coolboymew Yet nobody bothers to preserve and emulate the old iPod click-wheel games.