Kingdom Hearts V-CAST Game Files Ripped

[kraze1984]

I would like to recommend you to buy a Zeebo, it is very cheap in Brazil (and the dollar price in Brazil has gone up a lot, 1 $ is equivalent to 5 R $) it would not cost that much to import on sites like Mercado Livre or someone else's ZeeboClub group on Facebook, as a gift you would have a very interesting and extremely rare console in your collection

If you are in the US, and your only purpose is to play BREW games just buy a Casio G'zone Ravine2 and flash it with unlocked firmware. Just a cable and a Windows 7 system are required. Used ones are dirt cheap now when CDMA was phased out.

Regards

 

[Tdwpguy55]

I can't add anything constructive to the search or even this thread, but I just want to say that I'm rooting for all of you. I just found out that the game exists today and I already want to play it, if only to fulfill my curiosity and vague sense of Kingdom Hearts nostalgia lol

 

[Octodad]

i think if you can get enough footage of the game, it could be coded completely from scratch in something like unity. it probably wouldn't even be that hard because it was made for mobile phones in 2004

 

[kraze1984]

Yeah, someone with enough skills could code it in Unity. I tried to show each movement and how and where the camera moves.
The assets (models, textures, maps, sounds) can be extracted as it was shown in this thread.

Also, I will be remaking the earlier videos with fixed sound FX and with larger font (basically, replaying again).

 

[kraze1984]

For the sake of completeness I have gathered here the two episodes currently available, the reconstructed .mif file, the later version of the executable (.mod) and the extension which is necessary to run the game, provided you have a BREW phone, and a signature file: https://mega.nz/#!CWQiiQRC!oTmTucRhMRWauxbg6GmRmhyN3x8Dwhu63TU10vUXOK4 . Also included save files to choose either episode 1 or 3. This is the original version, not the version modified to look better on the Zeebo.

 

[CaioBro]

If you could make a Port for unity it would be much easier to run on other platforms like Pc, android, Psvita and maybe 3DS

 

[kraze1984]

No, I cannot. I will leave this privilege to anyone else

 

[Octodad]

If you could make a Port for unity it would be much easier to run on other platforms like Pc, android, Psvita and maybe 3DS

i'm currently working on coding the game in unity, though i'm not really sure if i'd be able to make mobile ports

 

[kraze1984]

I got myself a K1M with Verizon's firmware (the same model Eriyu has). I see why Eriyu is unable to get the files from it. There should be some additional things which are necessary to do, which I do not know. I will be looking into them.

 

[kraze1984]

Because read access of the /brew folder in Motorola phones is locked for generic qualcomm tools, it is necessary to use tools made for motorola phones specificly. I managed to read and backup several files from the mif and mod folders of this phone with p2kcommander. It even worked for me on Windows 10. Although the whole setup is very unstable and might not work at first time (I had to unplug and replug the phone several times). EDIT: confused p2kcommander with p2kseem (which has special build for v710)...

 

[kraze1984]

Now I see that Eriyu already tried that program.

 

[Guernsey]

Unfortunately my old phones got thrown away, is there another way to play this game?

 

[kraze1984]

Not (yet?). You need a phone.

 

[kraze1984]

I managed to make an image of the K1m filesystem and extract some files from it. Some of them are extracted correctly by the program revskills, others are extracted as empty files. These can probably be extracted manually. Anyways, with a dump of the filesystem it is possible eventually to extract the files from it and/or flash the filesystem onto another K1M phone. The latter needs to be researched.

 

[Wedge]

Sorry for the delay in responding to some of the questions, I was largely AFK from the topic after my initial post. The phone I originally downloaded the games with (and later ripped them from using BitPim) was an LG Chocolate VX8500. I can also confirm that aside from the title screen, death screen, and intro cards to every level, there was no music running in the background. If there's any other questions I can assist with on that end, feel free to let me know.

Additionally, I've dropped an updated DL of the original files on the lost media wiki forums, as the original link I dropped on 4chan went defunct long ago. In case you're interested kraze, I also included a link for an early mobile version of the Transformers G1 Awakening files, which I also ripped from my phone at the time.

 

[kraze1984]

Hi, yes, indeed, I am definitely interested in an early mobile version of the Transformers G1 Awakening files !

Thanks!

 

[DaGuAr]

I managed to make an image of the K1m filesystem and extract some files from it. Some of them are extracted correctly by the program revskills, others are extracted as empty files. These can probably be extracted manually. Anyways, with a dump of the filesystem it is possible eventually to extract the files from it and/or flash the filesystem onto another K1M phone. The latter needs to be researched.

This got me wondering... do you think those empty files are a fault of the extracting process from the filesystem, or because the imaging process ignores these "protected" files?

If it's just the former and the image is correctly done... do you think would be a good idea to inform Eriyu on how to dump her filesystem so the game's data is outside her phone (which can stop working in any moment)? Even if we can't extract the actual files yet, it would at least preserve them until we figure it out.

The downside would be that in order for her to dump and share her filesystem, she would most likely need to delete any sensitive data beforehand, for privacy concerns (photos, messages, contact info, etc).

Or do you think it's better to wait until we have more information?

 

[kraze1984]

I have contacted her in PM when I posted the relevant message but still got no reply.

The fault is (a) because the files are in qualcomm part of the filesystem and have a protected attribute for qualcomm tools and (b) the motorola filesystem interface does not work well with the qualcomm part of the filesystem (even with motorola's own tools).

If we dump the filesystem image we would be able to manually reconstruct the files (if they are not too big they will hopefully fit in one block of the filesystem).

As for the sensitive data - IMHO, the data is on a phone which is more than 10 years old lost importance. It is safe to remove it.

It is still worth to note that bits of data will remain in the filesystem image. I would suggest not to share that image publicly if it had some sensitive data.

 

[kraze1984]

By the way someone (https://twitter.com/ligero_miguel) posted the data of Kingdom Hearts: Coded which was on the SD card. Maybe I could help with extracting the executables from the phone. I will need the phone physically, though. Anyone knows how to contact that person?

 

[Moonie]

Just curious, but is it possible to run Kingdom Hearts: Coded on Zeebo too ?, it would be amazing to see it running on the console.