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Riip

I feel yah.

aya this must have cost a ton of money

More than I'd like to admit lol

he wants the full game
and still can be cracked open with enough work right?

whatever it takes to preserve this thing forever

no, I told you that the exe required to launch it needs a check from the servers which aren't really a thing

if he manages it somehow then sure, but since he's not been able to do it yet then that says something

lol

Surely there's plenty of Japanese people who've played it and had it on their phones

send it and lets see what he can do

I don't have the full game

I told you, I only have the demo, it's worthless

right, he already got the demo

the demo is easy to get, just get one of those phones

Unless someone spends their time reverse engineering the phone's bios, you'll never have a proper emulator

if we had more contact with jp community we could have it easier

Nah

It's not that easy

People just think it's as easy as getting someone who has kept their phone with all 9 episodes or whatever

the full game's been ripped essentially already, it's the exe that requires the game to boot nobody can get booting

Cause you'd need that server check

can you emulate the servers using a virtual machine?

all episodes use the same exe right?

Then someone would have already if it was possible lol

fair enough

it needs more deep research. find out which ip is it connecting to

one that doesn't exist anymore, and hasn't since like 2009 I believe

or modify the exe to redirect the request to another address

The servers for Docomo's P-01 phones have been long discontinued

if all episodes use the same exe like a dlc, then we only need a phone that got at least episode 1

that's not the problem

the issue is that the exe calls to the servers, which don't exist anymore

thst can be fixed
other discontinued games are still alive thanks to new servers
also it can be bypassed with a crack or smth

I think there's a real difference to games that got shut down here and games that were niche, exclusive to specific devices and from Japan in 2008-2009

Coded was ONLY on Docomo P-01 devices

even the game could do a self check if we modify the exe to request to 127.0.0.1 using a custom virtual server installed on the phone