Pied Piper Search Thread

[Aidan Uzuki]

I'd feel a lot more comfortable possibly reaching out to Keju or someone else in the Japanese fandom with a known copy and seeing if they'd feel comfortable extracting the files.

At this point, this feels like the most viable way to get access to the game, the unfortunate part is that it is uncommon even in Japan. Is there just the one copy that we know exists? Also something to consider eventually is what if the battery in the phone dies and it is no longer able to boot up? Do they sell the batteries in places still?

 

[Valkyrie]

Is there just the one copy that we know exists ?

Actually, this is the only copy I know.
But I wouldn't be surprised that フォレスト (= Forest) owned a copy.

 

[jessiray]

Honestly, I'd just be glad to get my mitts on a compatible phone that had similar games on it (not even PP) to see if I could learn the dumping process. Some people have had luck with the Final Fantasy and Sonic Mobile games and I would want to know their methodology well before tampering with a known copy. They're rare at this point and I'd hate for anyone to lose theirs.

At this point, this feels like the most viable way to get access to the game, the unfortunate part is that it is uncommon even in Japan. Is there just the one copy that we know exists? Also something to consider eventually is what if the battery in the phone dies and it is no longer able to boot up? Do they sell the batteries in places still?

I'm not an early 2k phone expert, but I'm EXTREMELY worried about the cmos on these at this point

 

[Elendraug]

I think there are some official videogame archivist/preservation projects or organizations out there, aren't there? Is that a possibility for us to reach to professionals for help?

 

[LXGK]

Oooh I'm late to finding this thread. I've always had moments in my server where we go "Yeahh we're gonna go find Pied Piper" and quickly give up haha.
Sorry I haven't the entire thread so I don't know if this has been mentioned, Watte (goes by @Watte_Tv on Twitter) has said he's played Pied Piper before a while ago and owned a phone with the game on it but it encountered hardware issues. I can't remember if he still owns the phone, though considering he's a collector I'd think he must.
I believe last time I spoke to him he said he tried to get it sorted but couldn't get anywhere. I was wondering that if the game were downloaded onto the phone's memory it could be retrieved through some convoluted method of soldering onto the board and having some program that could read the data from it.
Anyway that's all I got to add if it's anything new at all. Interested to see if this goes somewhere

 

[Valkyrie]

Thank you for this piece of info LXGK ! Noted !

 

[Elendraug]

Pied Piper is all over Xeno Twitter today thanks to fans requesting that it be considered for preservation! Please check out the thread and add your voice of support!

Thread 'Reply to G-MODE requesting Pied Piper' https://godsibb.net/index.php?threads/reply-to-g-mode-requesting-pied-piper.385/