Toonami Games Plus Lost Data Blog

Samurai Jack - Rave Slaves

2011-12-22T12:00:00.006-05:00

(a.k.a. The Game I Forgot About)

Jack trades in his normal outfit for a raver outfit. He trades in his sword for punches and kicks in the style of Brazilian dance-fighting. It goes without saying, he's also traded away his dignity.

Play Samurai Jack: Rave Slaves @ Toonami: Lost Data

(The one game in which Jack isn't permitted to fight back.)

Why was "Jack and the Rave" made into a game when there were better episodes such as "Jack and the Ultra-robots" that could make better/more popular games? I don't think anyone will ever know now...

Samurai Jack - Way of the Warrior

2011-12-21T12:00:00.002-05:00

Another game that corresponds to the pilot episode/series of Samurai Jack. The training montage from the pilot is turned into a set of five mini-games. All are good, but are of varying difficulty.

Play Samurai Jack: Way of the Warrior @ Toonami: Lost Data

(Samurai Jack trains to rescue Princess Zelda.)

Samurai Jack's artwork seemed to translate a lot smoother into web games than other Toonami shows. It's either due to the simplicity of vector graphics or that Cartoon Network's own studio did the work and the web side had better support/access to animation frames and artwork.

Samurai Jack - Path of Destiny

2011-12-20T12:00:00.001-05:00

This game corresponds to the massive cyborg battle at the end of the pilot movie/episodes of Samurai Jack. It's pretty simple compared to the other Samurai Jack web games. Run around and save people while slashing robots.

Play Samurai Jack: Path of Destiny @ Toonami: Lost Data

(At least the Shift key isn't used to attack in this one.)

Enemies increase in numbers and abilities each level.
Collect bowls of rice to regain health.

Samurai Jack - Desert Quest

2011-12-19T12:00:00.000-05:00

Desert Quest is apparently based on the same engine the Justice League game Curse of the Underworld. The graphics and controls are exactly the same.

Play Samurai Jack: Desert Quest @ Toonami: Lost Data

(...could have sworn Wonder Woman was in this game...)

Pressing the Shift key five times when attacking will bring up an assistant dialog (in Windows, at least). Game makers should really consider that when setting controls.

Samurai Jack - Code of the Samurai

2011-12-18T12:00:00.002-05:00

Code of the Samurai is probably the best Samurai Jack web game. This was part of Cartoon Network's integrate-web-games-with-television-by-handing-out-codes-during-the-show phase. The Total Immersion Events were just large-scale versions of this.

Play Samurai Jack: Code of the Samurai @ Toonami: Lost Data

(The enemies won't stop attacking. Once Jack drops his defense he'll definitely take a hit. Not the best use of the power...)

Code of the Samurai weapon codes:

1. Justice
2. Purity
3. Compassion
4. Courage
5. Valor
6. Honor

Samurai Jack - Cavern Raid

2011-12-17T12:00:00.002-05:00

There haven't been many updates, then again, there isn't much to update about a cancelled television block.

I wasn't originally going to collect most of the more common series games. Then I changed my mind mostly because the advertised-laden game sites are terrible

Play Samurai Jack: Cavern Raid @ Toonami: Lost Data

(Even Jack hasn't played this one.)

Ol' Jack finds himself in a cavern. It's just him and his sword versus a bunch of enemies.

Level codes:
Level 2 - UNDERGROUND
Level 3 - SPELUNKER
Level 4 - STALAGMITE
Level 5 - BEDROCK
Level 6 - GROTTO
Last Level - DARKNESS

Wallpaper - Space Station

2011-09-24T12:00:00.001-04:00

Here's another wallpaper, but this one was in the Internet Archive (here).

It appears to be the space dock where the Absolution received its new engines.

Toonami Bridge Wallpaper

2011-09-23T12:00:00.004-04:00

Found this on an old CD. I believe this is an official Toonami wallpaper, but it doesn't turn up in basic web image searches and the Internet Archive apparently didn't pick it up. (Well, the Archives lists it, but it just redirects to an empty page.)

It's a nice shot of the Absolution's bridge without any of the characters or shows.

Ads & Mission to Namek (Maybe) Fixed

2011-09-22T17:00:00.002-04:00

Apparently 000webhost puts up ads when I haven't logged in for a long time.

This is a problem as I used iFrames to load the games into the webpages.

If this ever happens again, just go to http://lostdata.comuv.com/~games/

That directory leads to (most) every game.

And the Mission to Namek game may be fixed. Someone found a non-buggy version. And all I had to do was check the comment spam folder. And re-discover my FTP login credentials.

Anyhow:
http://lostdata.comuv.com/?Series_Games:DBZ_Mission_to_Namek
http://lostdata.comuv.com/~games/dbz_namek/

Questions & Answers

2011-05-14T12:00:00.002-04:00

Rather than respond in every post, it's just easier to answer here as a FAQ:

hey alsoff, ok, so 1 more time (check your other blog posts for igpx), found this from the link from the spanish version, and needless to say lostdata's site still isn't working...any idea how/why this is happening? and if the link after the jpegs is for the complete version, is that the same one as the link from your july 2009 post, or did you not update that link to reroute to the completed version? (since that link's version still locks up because it gives a pop-up message saying the necessary jpg isn't found)

I really don't know what the problem with IGPX is. It seems to work under Windows XP and Flash and Shockwave 10. Newer versions of Flash may be giving it problems or it could be something with Intel Macs.

Failing that, someone would need to set up a virtual machine running Windows 98 or similar to ensure that all these Flash and Shockwave games can be played. This needs doing at some point anyway, since Flash isn't going to stay backwards-compatible forever.

Having said that, there is some sort of problem with 000webhost. When I try downloading backup ZIP files, they come out corrupted somehow. I know it's something to do with binary/ASCII files, but can't figure out how to fix it.

So to get around that, I'll just post a link to a mostly complete collection of files obtained from the Internet Archive and other sources:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M31P6MRM

There are some games I haven't posted (Naruto) and some mp3s and images that can probably be found elsewhere.

I posted something similar before on the Toonami Fan board, but I was always planning to post a second, more complete version.

Toonami Endgame

2011-04-29T12:00:00.001-04:00

It's already been assembled in (mostly) correct order by others, but I figured I might as well sort out the separate images as well as I could and tell a little about it.

From Toonami EndGame

The comic was originally viewed as part as a Adobe Flash image viewer/app. The user dragged the mouse around to see the whole comic and turn pages. That's why a few of the images have little cursor hands near the bottom. The person must have been scrolling around to take screen shots.

Unfortunately, a few pages/panels are missing. Most the comic is there and is readable. The missing content is likely just the villain gloating, threatening, or revealing his plans for galactic domination.

Computer Troubles

2010-11-07T16:45:00.000-05:00

Been having some computer troubles lately, so it's difficult to work through all the current tasks/problems. It's delayed my work on all Bash and AviSynth scripts as well as updates to the Reactor.

I may have to replace said computer, but it's a good thing the holidays are coming up. There could be a good deal on a fairly basic desktop.

Riddler's Secret Identity Inventor

2010-09-24T12:00:00.006-04:00

What everyone's been clamoring for, right?!

"Play" Riddler's Secret Identity Inventor @ Toonami: Lost Data

(The Batman: TAS version of Riddler was better.)

Batman: Crime Wave

2010-09-23T12:00:00.007-04:00

Batman usually makes for a good game. It's probably because of the gadgets. They make for interesting power-ups and level design. Conversely, Superman's too overpowered for most games. His weakest opponents should be tanks.

Developers could always pull a Boktai and have Superman literally powered by the sun.

Play Batman: Crime Wave @ Toonami: Lost Data
(Not many Toonami games go with the isometric viewpoint.)

Wonder Woman: Curse of the Underworld

2010-09-22T12:00:00.002-04:00

Justice League: The successor to both the Batman and Superman animated series. It's unfortunate that it never really found its groove due to its massive ensemble cast. There were simply too many characters to focus on.

Well, at least Justice League had better action and serious plots compared to the He-Man remake.

Play Curse of the Underworld @ Toonami: Lost Data
(Athens was originally made of wood, but the discovery of gold enabled the city to build great stone structures.)

PPG Video Director

2010-09-21T12:00:00.008-04:00

In addition to Toonami's Big Shot Video Director, Cartoon Network also created a Powerpuff Girls Video Director. It follows the same format, but with different clips and music.

Since The Powerpuff Girls aired on Toonami, and it was good, it shall be placed on Toonami: Lost Data. Pokemon: Chocobo Chronicles Generations, however, will never be on the site.

Play PPG Video Director @ Toonami: Lost Data
(Whoever is reading this is responsible for the box office failure of the PPG movie.)

Happy Cancelversary

2010-09-20T12:00:00.011-04:00

As we all know, Toonami was cancelled on this date two years ago (or, rather, the cancellation became publicly known). While we mourn its loss, we can celebrate the downfall Cartoon Network's experiment in live-action television.

I hope to update Toonami Reactor 2.5 sometime this week in commemoration as well as upload some type of Batman/DC Comics game. I would upload the Naruto games, but those are still on Cartoon Network's main website for some strange reason.

In the meantime, here is a Slider Puzzle:

Play yet another cheap game @ Toonami: Lost Data

(All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put TOM1 or Toonami back together again.)

Frameless Toonami Reactor

2010-08-13T12:00:00.001-04:00

(50% less annoying than before.)

The interface for Toonami Reactor 2.5 has been upgraded. No longer will awful frames cause confusion across multiple browsers. Now it should work across most browsers, though older versions of Internet Explorer may be problematic.

In addition, several features have been added:

Video quality can be set and kept across multiple videos.
Video timing can be adjusted.
Ads, games, and bumps can all be toggled on or off.
Obtain a video list just by searching a user's uploads. Saves a lot of time versus creating new playlists.
Can now sort playlists/searches. Important as a lot of playlists are improperly organized.
The Episode List box will now auto-scroll to the selected video.

Several bugs have been squashed:

Double-play bug: This was caused by trying to correct the video quality after it loaded instead of requesting quality with the video.
Removed auto-play from embed code as it seemed to interfere with the JavaScript auto-play.
Removed Related Videos from embed code as it tended to get stuck when switching videos.
Block-skipping: The player skips a chunk of video when switching videos. Probably solved or reduced in frequency. Related either to the embedded auto-play or video timing.

There are still some improvements that could be made:

Allow the viewer to set how many episodes before a bump.
Allow two searches/playlists to be merged (there are some difficulties in searching).
Might even allow two searches/playlists to be "diffed" and "unioned" to add some better logic.
YouTube also searches comments made by the video poster (or event commentators). This causes massive problem with searching, so may need a separate Title or Tag Search.

Toonamify your YouTube experience at Toonami Reactor 2.5.

Sasami's Run

2010-07-28T20:00:00.005-04:00

This game apparently appeared only on the UK Toonami's website. They had an even smaller game budget than the U.S. Toonami website. What's odd is that this is the only Tenchi-related game ever produced for Toonami.

Play Sasami's Run @ Toonami: Lost Data

(Sasami sure is threatened by tree branches and rocks.)

Coming Soon... Eventually

2010-07-13T12:00:00.005-04:00

(Why, it looks almost exactly the same!)

A frameless version of Toonami Reactor 2.5. Hopefully, this one will work much better across multiple browsers.

This will replace all other versions because it's a lot sleeker than the framed versions.

(Technically, there will be a couple of iFrames, but those are only for compatibility and loading playlists.)

IGPX Spanish Version

2010-06-30T12:00:00.006-04:00

(Play IGPX Spanish @ Lost Data)

The Spanish-version of the IGPX Total Immersion Event game is now up on Lost Data. This was the original version I found via Googling. One of those scraper/spam websites hotlinked to the game. From there, it was easy to determine that one of CN's Latin American sites had this game and an English-version as well.

The only problem is that the win/lose .JPG files are in English.

Related Project: YouTube Viewer

2010-06-07T12:00:00.001-04:00

Toonami Reactor 2.5 isn't the only YouTube-related project I've worked on. The first was a YouTube "Let's Play" viewer that automatically runs through a playlist of videos. Basically, I hook a laptop up to a TV with a VGA connection (many new HDTVs have them), select someone's playlist, and just let it roll.

Many improvements made in either the YouTube Viewer or Reactor 2.5 are cross-pollinated, so that both function better. It is essentially a prototype for experimenting with YouTube embedding and managing playlists without worrying about frames or extraneous HTML and JavaScript files.

The YouTube Viewer currently has a few experimental features such as measuring download rate to ensure videos load quickly. I plan to add a voice synthesizer to read video titles and descriptions, but it will have to be an external program on the viewer's computer. Any sort of voice synth plug-in will simply be too slow or too simplistic (not enough voices, etc.).

Of course, now I'm working on a "master" YouTube Viewer. The current one is okay, but I'm trying to make one embeddable in any webpage with minimal hassle, rather than hard coded as it is now. If it all works out, I might be able to get rid of the frames in Reactor 2.5.

I've also got a JavaScript file that parses and threads comments from YouTube discussions, but I'm still cleaning that one up.

P.S. A bunch of new shows have been added to Reactor 2.5 (WS). Some of these took a bit of work as not all were in playlists (and one playlist was completely misordered).

IGPX Restored

2010-05-25T14:15:00.001-04:00

Good news: the winning/losing image files for the IGPX microseries were recovered thanks to the efforts of an anonymous (unless he wants to be mentioned) person.

Check out the now-complete version of IGPX @ Toonami: Lost Data.

Toonami Reactor 2.5 Widescreen

2010-05-20T12:00:00.010-04:00

(Now with 50% less resizing!)

After some work, Reactor 2.5 now has a "widescreen" layout. This should work well considering that YouTube standard definition video is far larger than the original Reactor's tiny streaming content. The Reactor and navigation panes were moved to the bottom half of the screen to accommodate the change.

In addition, Toonami promos should now play between episodes of series. More than that and they risk annoying the viewer. The promos are randomly selected, so they won't necessarily match any particular time period of Toonami. There are also "Intro" and "Later" bumpers that activate at the beginning and end of a playlist.

See the Toonami Reactor 2.5 Widescreen version.

Or proceed to the 'old' version of Toonami Reactor.

Accident #1

2010-05-19T19:30:00.001-04:00

I think I accidentally deleted someone's comment. It was whoever mentioned "wee".

He-Man Games

2010-05-12T12:00:00.002-04:00

Oddly, the only games produced for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe were made for the Toonami UK website. The only He-Man-related item on the U.S. Toonami website was a "Map of Eternia". Part of that is in the Wayback Machine, but it is mostly broken.

The Courage of Adam @ Toonami: Lost Data
(It would be easier if you could ride the tiger.)

The Courage of Adam: Race back and forth as Skeletor tries to hit Adam with energy bolts. Tranform into He-Man and use the shield to reflect lightning ("purple") blasts.

Lair of the Slime Mutant @ Toonami: Lost Data
(Stupid bug-monsters.)

Lair of the Slime Mutant is quite a bit more fun than Courage, but is fantastically difficult. Jump platforms and try to kill beasts as they cheat and hit you no matter what.

fsed.sh

2010-05-08T12:00:00.003-04:00

After downloading the Toonami Reactor web files from the Internet Archive, I needed to strip out all the Wayback Machine code/markers. The Wayback Machine added JavaScript code to rewrite HTML links thus maintaining "temporal integrity". These needed to be removed for Reactor 2.5 to function properly. Removing them manually would be too time consuming and frustrating. The application Cygwin provided access to many tools such as sed that allow for bulk replacement of text. However, sed (or this version on least) can only replace text on a single line. The solution was to write a custom bash script to replace newline characters ('\n') with the bell character ('\a') and switch back after removing the offending text. See code:

#!/bin/bash
# fsed.sh
# Name: File sed
# Replaces all newlines with the bell (\a), performs sed,
#    then switches back.

regex=$1;
# Shift the argument array, to move the regex value. 
shift
for i in $*
do
  cat $i | tr "\n" "\a" | sed "$regex" | tr "\a" "\n" > $i;
done

Called like this: >fsed.sh "/regex/replace/g" ./*.html
(Of course, this is designed to work on a mass of files. And it's incredibly dangerous, what with rewriting files and such. Use caution.)

It's possible there are other escape characters other than the bell that could be used, but it worked well enough at the time.

Reactor v2.5.3231463968 Alpha Gaiden

2010-04-30T11:00:00.001-04:00

(It sort of works!)

After some work, I've got a fan-version of Toonami Reactor up and running. It's missing some features currently, but those will be added in gradually.

Why Reactor instead of Jetstream? Because Reactor's layout is easier to copy and YouTube's embedded player comes with a variety of color schemes. Jetstream was all Flash and loaded its files in a most annoying fashion.

YouTube also has the most powerful and complete API of the video hosting services. Dailymotion has an API as well, but I can't figure out if it allows API access to playlists.

Since it is YouTube, content is somewhat limited due to copyright restrictions.

On to Reactor 2.5's current capabilities.

What really makes it the Reactor. Every three minutes:

Reactor Mindburn pops up on the right-corner ("Reaction") panel and asks a question.
An "advertisement" is displayed in the Reaction frame/panel. These aren't really ads, but just links to anything interesting related to Toonami or not.
The Reactor Meltdown plays.

The Reactor runs through a YouTube playlist, allowing a viewer to watch an entire series/set of videos. The viewer can also play any embeddable YouTube playlist he or she chooses by copying and pasting a playlist ID string in a text box.

Features to add:

Playing a Toonami intro before the playlist starts.
Playing an interstitial between every two videos (approximately). Interstitials include the "blood" graphic.
An "Up Next" graphic or animation.
Playing a montage such as "Dreams" or "Mad Rhetoric" between episodes.
Ditto for video game reviews.
Finishing a playlist with a "Later" bump.
The ability to turn some or all features off.

The current layout essentially copies the original Reactor. However, YouTube allows for video resolutions far larger than the original Reactor's 320x240 Real Video Streaming. It'd probably be best to move the Reaction frame (where messages and trivia games pop-up) to the bottom-half of the screen, giving more room for video.

Features Probably Never Implemented:

The original Reactor had the episodes keyed in so that a message would appear for a given moment during a video. For instance, during the episode in which Goku launches a Spirit Bomb at Frieza, the Reactor panel might pop-up a message stating: "Goku learned the Spirit Bomb from King Kai in episode ##." Hypothetically, that could be implemented, but it's an awful lot of work that could be wiped out quite easily.

Or Reactor 2.5 could scan the comments section for chronological links and display the comment at the appropriate time...

Other:

The code's a mess. I wanted to get an initial version out before the end of April, so there's still a lot of clean-up to do along with testing and adding the above-mentioned components. It should work across all modern browsers and operating systems (I hope; Internet Explore seems to have some major problems).

I know nothing about color schemes or aesthetic taste. I just picked whatever colors looked okay for text boxes and such.

The hardest part is collecting videos for the Reactor. Right now, there's only two good playlists on the page.

Check out Reactor 2.5 (Preview).

Background Changes

2010-04-29T23:46:00.003-04:00

Made some changes to the blog that has broken all previous Bookmarks/links. I didn't really want to, but had to do it.

Toonami Reactor Meltdown

2010-03-17T12:00:00.009-04:00

After some time of gathering images, the Reactor Meltdown game has finally been "repaired". As some of us may remember, the Meltdown game was a quiz game similar to Mindburn except the player must guess the person/object/item/place in a slowly-revealed image.

The game was obtained from the Internet Archive with only one image (out of fifty-six) still present. The only image was of Frieza, but it at least provided some information on the proper height and width of acceptable images. Fortunately, most of the questions (stored in separate files) were spidered by the Wayback Machine and preserved.

Play Reactor Meltdown @ Toonami: Lost Data

(Some images look better than others. I was rushed.)

Using the SWFTools package, another fifty-five images were converted to work with the Meltdown game. Now it should function near-identically as it did in the Reactor.

Flash/Shockwave Game Download Tools

2010-03-12T12:00:00.008-05:00

So, you may be wondering how I download Flash or Shockwave games that may contain dozens of dependent files on a server. Well, it's quite simple. I use a custom Java program based on the JPcap (packet capture) library to spit out all the requests that are being sent over a network connection. I look through the requests, find the files I want, then download them with wget.

(Tcpdump allows you to see all the crud a modern Flash game loads. And download it!)

It works something like this:

java Tcpdump 2 >> .\output.txt

(The number "2" indicates which network interface to use; generally either a WiFi connection or Ethernet port.)

And ".\output.txt" will contain text such as this:

GET>> www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/naruto/battleforleafvillage/characters.xml GET>> www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/naruto/battleforleafvillage/naruto3.swf GET>> www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/naruto/battleforleafvillage/tracker.swf

I replace "GET>>" with wget instructions to make it into this:

wget -nc -x www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/naruto/battleforleafvillage/characters.xml wget -nc -x www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/naruto/battleforleafvillage/naruto3.swf wget -nc -x www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/naruto/battleforleafvillage/tracker.swf

The flag "nc" prevents overwriting of existing files and "x" forces the creation of directories. These changes are saved to a .BAT file and run in the same directory as wget.

On top of this, I have Mozilla Firefox equipped with the FlashBlock plugin. This enables me to control when a Flash or Shockwave item is loaded, thus making my "output.txt" file neat and clean. Otherwise, dozens of non-related requests would need to be discarded to obtain a game.

To make things easy, I've packaged together all of the files that I use (except for Java and FlashBlock, of course; that would just be silly). The WinPcap library must be installed before installing the Jpcap library as one is dependent on the other. The Windows version of wget is included since most people can't be bothered to search around for it. After that, the Tcpdump* application can be run from .BAT files if the command line is too esoteric.

I'm sure there are other/better tools out there, but this has worked fairly well for me. There's only one major pitfall: some games only load resources as they need them, meaning that you're required to play through the entire game to obtain all the files. Some filenames can be guessed, but others can't be.

Download:

*This is a misnomer in that my version doesn't dump whole TCP packets, but that's just the name I've kept ever since experimenting with an example program.

Update: Batman Beyond: Evolution of Evil

2010-02-28T19:00:00.007-05:00

(Seeing "Enter Level Access Code" means the game is working.)

Someone requested help in getting Batman Beyond: Evolution of Evil to work. The game definitely works, it apparently just isn't compatible with current versions of Adobe Shockwave Player.

(Terry gets socked.)

It took a while to test this out as I used a Virtual Machine running Windows 98 to install old versions of Shockwave (thus avoiding screwing up my computer's configuration). I can't say for sure how well these old versions will install on modern systems. They might work on XP, but I can't be sure about Vista or Windows 7.

(Exiting the stage.)

Anyway, the game requires Shockwave version 8 at the least. It also works on version 9 (seems less buggy on this version). The game doesn't appear to work on version 10 or above.

(Batman taking a break behind some barrels.)

With the latest player, Adobe added some backwards compatibility, but only to version 10. The only way around seems to be 1.) Uninstall the current version of Shockwave, 2.) install version 9, 3.) play game, 4.) re-install current version of Shockwave.

It's annoying, but it appears to be the only way to play this game.

Older versions of Shockwave Player: kb2.adobe.com/cps/186/tn_18629.html

Level Codes:
Elevator
Bellhop
Cargo
Pinpoint
Barrel
Abandoned
Lab rat
Malice

So Much for Trapped in Hyperspace

2010-02-03T12:00:00.004-05:00

I tried contacting Pepworks.de to see if they would send me a copy of Trapped in Hyperspace. No such luck. They only give copies to the customer. That would mean contacting someone from CartoonNetwork.com and obtaining it. That just doesn't seem very likely.

Oh, well.

Kirby 64 Promo Game

2010-01-31T20:00:00.003-05:00

Going through the Wayback Machine (yet again), I noticed an odd file called kirby.game.html. Curiously, it appears to be a promotional game for Kirby 64.

Kirby 64 Promo Game @ Lost Data

It's a simple memory game. Upon completion, the player is able to download a Kirby wallpaper. (It appears in the same download area as Toonami wallpapers, so it wasn't a big secret.)

Unfortunately, the Wayback Machine failed to save the wallpaper. However, at least one website saved the file and noted where it came from, and so we know which wallpaper was offered by Toonami.

(Click to view 1024x768 image.)

I don't remember this game from back then. Of course, the Toonami homepage wasn't very interesting until the Intruder premiered and Reactor came online. I probably didn't visit enough...

Toonami Test Track

2009-11-30T23:59:00.003-05:00

Toonami Test Track is a racing game that allows the player to select a ship and a paint scheme from one of Toonami's shows. Oddly enough, Inuyasha is also included. However, there do appear to be some different versions of this game with other sets of television shows. The game is still the same no matter what, the paint scheme associations simply change.

Toonami Test Track @ Lost Data

Oddly, this one game received its own promo unlike many other Toonami games.

By now, most other websites claiming to host this game are broken. That's what they get for superficially hotlinking Flash games.

Clone Wars: Planetary Forces

2009-10-08T12:00:00.007-04:00

The Clone Wars Planetary Forces game coincided with the Clone Wars 2003 microseries. This was not a Toonami exclusive, but it did air at various points on Toonami. Failing that, at least it aired on a Toonami block somewhere on the planet Earth.

Fight on either the Light Side or Dark Side. The missions are essentially the same, except with a simple character swap. The one except is the Mon Calamari mission in which the end boss is radically different.

Star Wars: Planetary Forces @ Toonami: Lost Data

(Click to open in new window.)

The hardest level is the Kit Fisto Mon Calamari mission. That's only because the boss is fairly random, unless it falls into a jumping pattern. Then it can be destroyed with ease.

Now, if only Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire trilogy were made into a cartoon, the world would be perfect...

IGPX: Fight to the Finish

2009-10-05T12:00:00.007-04:00

The second web game that coincided with the IGPX series, FttF is based on racing and fighting.

There's not much I can say about this game because I can't even really beat the first level. I don't know if I even have all the game files, so it might be broken. (The game pre-loads files, so hopefully I obtained absolutely all of them.)

IGPX: Fight to the Finish @ Toonami: Lost Data

I much prefer the original tactics game for the IGPX microseries, even though I can't beat that one either. Racing has never quite been my genre of choice.

If someone out there can beat it and confirm the game fully works, drop a line in the comments.

That Was Good Timing

2009-10-01T22:00:00.004-04:00

Not two weeks after those backups, the Toonami.co.uk website is history.

(I'm not too concerned about not backing up Justice League, Batman, and Samurai Jack games as those tend to get picked up by the Internet Archive or are duplicated on various websites.)

And before anyone asks, a lot of those other games (such as the Lego Mars Mission) were broken by the time I got there. It turns out the Mission to Mars game is on Lego's website anyway.

Guess I'll prepare to add the UK games and Planetary Forces to Lost Data.

The Problem with Trapped in Hyperspace

2009-09-29T12:00:00.009-04:00

Trapped in Hyperspace cannot be recovered because 1.) the Internet Archive couldn't pick it up and 2.) no public, searchable web page currently has a copy.

In regards to 1.), there's nothing anyone can do about that. The game uses preloaders that the Internet Archive simply can't detect. (loader.dcr downloads and uses gamefiles.dcr, etc.) TiH certainly isn't the first Flash/Shockwave game to be lost because of this.

Point 2.) leaves some hope. There may be some webpage out there hidden from search engines that still exists and has the the game. Failing that, the only place to get it would be from the developers (Pepworks), Williams Street, or possibly from some sympathetic Cartoon Network webmaster.

The game would still have some requirements though. It would need the 3dGroove libraries to play (which I have) and it needs to be on a Cartoon Network domain in order to play, but there are ways around that. I've gotten Powerpuff Girls: Showdown in the Sky to function and it had both these problems.

Video temporarily disabled until I upload a proper replacement ~ 2010-05-08.

Now I just need TiH the game files...

Other Games Backed Up

2009-09-20T18:09:00.002-04:00

Although not added to the Lost Data website just yet, several games have been backed up:

Some He-Man games from the Toonami UK website.
The Clone Wars (the five-minute short series) game Planetary Forces, also from the Toonami UK website.
All the Naruto games from the Cartoon Network website.

Given the news that Naruto Shippuden will air on Disney XD and that Naruto itself hasn't aired properly on Cartoon Network in months, there is a great risk CN will eventually remove the games. I may put the games up for a test period to make sure they are all functioning.

The He-Man games apparently never appeared on the United States Toonami website. It's one of those UK-only games similar to the Megas XLR game.

I don't know if the Planetary Forces game is playable anywhere else, though I have seen some of the files in the Internet Archive. Just in case, I've backed it up.

Link Dump I

2009-08-14T15:35:00.002-04:00

This is a collection of Cartoon Network-related links to the Internet Archive. Most major websites have multiple domains that redirect to their main site. This is done to prevent domain squatting and to pickup mistypings. The Internet Archive spiders through these domains and treats them as separate webpages. Thus, cartoonnetwerk.com might have different files as compared to cartoonnetwork.com.

cartoonetwork.com
fuzzylumpkins.com
cartoonnetwork.tv
cartoonnet.com
cartoonworld.com
cartooncartoon.com
cartoon-net.com
cartonnetwork.com
cartoonnetworkhq.com

Tip #1: Setting the file search on the Internet Archive to show 350,000 results increases your ability to sift through all the data. Search for http://website.com/* first, then adjust the results to 30. Then, change the number 30 in the browser's address bar to some large figure.

Tip #2: Sometimes all the results listed aren't all the files available. For instance, loading an HTML page may include a .GIF file that does not appear in the results.

Plans: Toonami Reactor

2009-07-28T21:46:00.002-04:00

I plan to reconstitute much of the Reactor from the Internet Archive. The original version used embedded RealPlayer streaming. I'll just replace that with the various embedded video sites such as YouTube and Dailymotion. The Internet Archive didn't pickup the Features section, but that isn't a problem.

Some years ago, I used HTTrack to rip the Features section from Toonami Reactor. The articles had seemed important at the time, so I saved them. Combined with the content from the Internet Archive, it should appear 90% complete.

Toonami Mindburn should work fine, but Toonami Meltdown is missing a lot of files. The Dragon Ball Z games will be added as well. The advertisements and trivia won't be present.

The project is in its infancy, but I hope it works out.

Lockdown - Lost Level?

2009-07-21T17:02:00.005-04:00

Incidentally, the maker of the game, playerthree, has a page on Lockdown which contains several in-game images. Those images make no sense given the finished game. Was there a special multi-player Level 5?

Their website states:

Tied in with daily TV broadcasts on the Cartoon Network, players were fed a storyline on the TV then directed to the Toonami web site to help out - saving the Absolution spaceship from destruction.

On registering, players were allocated a team to play for, then competed and scored points to boost their team's performance. Daily feedback was given on the teams' overall scores, and new levels unveiled to the masses to continue the saga.

Free movement, parallax scrolling, atmospheric audio and a wide choice of weapons gave this game wide appeal to the Cartoon Network viewers, and generated a great deal of web traffic from the TV audience.

Which doesn't tell us anything. The promos at Toonami Digital Arsenal clearly show the normal Lockdown RPG-game and not playerthree's odd version. If there was a Level 5, it was removed after the Lockdown Total Immersion Event ended.

I played Lockdown when it originally premiered in 2001, but I may have missed one day of play. I can't be sure this level even existed. I assume it was a multiplayer level as that would be the only reason to remove it.

IGPX TIE Game

2009-07-21T00:36:00.018-04:00

IGPX premiered as the 2003 Total Immersion Event. This TIE combined the microseries with an online mecha-tactics simulator. The player can choose to be either Team Suzaku or Team Sledge Mama. The game claims that winning three out of five matches will result in winning the tournament, but I've barely even won a single match let alone three. So, I have no idea what will happen should the player actually win that many.

This game could not be recovered from the Internet Archive. The problem is that the game is spread out over multiple files and loads them all just to play a single match. This is in contrast to Intruder and Lockdown in which each level is its own file. The IA's webcrawler simply can't collect these secondary files. Trapped in Hyperspace has the same problem.

However, the game was still available in nearly full-form on some of Toonami's international websites. The only items missing were some "Win/Lose .JPGs" that crashed the game if it couldn't find them. One user on the X Bridge Forum did have at least one .JPG file, but the rest had to be replaced with bland images.

IGPX @ Toonami: Lost Data

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I don't know why IGPX went from a combat themed anime to racing. The original version always seemed better.

Toonami Lockdown

2009-07-20T16:37:00.029-04:00

Toonami Lockdown proved the longest and possibly best out of all the TIE games. Select a DOK weight class and weapon, then play through the game collecting armor and items and talking to NPCs. Fans criticized this Total Immersion Event for the lack of activity by TOM and SARA. They only monitor the situation and give commentary. Albeit, the two of them do this very well.

Initially, I was only able to recover the game files themselves from the Internet Archive and none of the associated instructions/images. However, I searched for CartoonNetwork.com domain misspellings and obtained some of these missing files. The result is the Toonami Lockdown Classic Version. The only [minor] files currently missing are two "Level GIFs" (these display the current level) for Levels 2 and 3. I substituted some modified GIFs for those two files, but the fonts don't match well.

Toonami Lockdown @ Toonami: Lost Data

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Protip: I always select a Heavy DOK with a medium gun. This maximizes my protection and ability to collect armor while having a moderately powerful gun with decent charge rate.

Protip #2: Each level has a limited number of enemies, so the game is actual easy to complete once you kill them all.

Protip #3: There's also a handy glitch to jump to the final boss near the beginning of Level 4. (Though, the ending screen changes as a result.)

Plus, maps! Most came from the Archive as well, but some Geocities and Tripod websites had them backed up as well.

The Intruder

2009-07-20T16:15:00.013-04:00

The Intruder game was the least sophisticated of all of the Total Immersion Event games. Oddly enough, it is perhaps the hardest except for perhaps IGPX. There is some integration between the television shorts and each online game level, but the first TIE was definitely a case of Gameplay and Story Segregation.

I've never actually beaten this game, so I don't know what the ending screens look like at all.

Toonami Intruder @ Toonami: Lost Data

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The Internet Archive crawled the Toonami website and provided all the necessary files for this game. It's quite fortunate as later games became too complicated for web-spidering to work.

Launch

2009-07-20T15:53:00.004-04:00

This is the blog that corresponds to the website Toonami: Lost Data. The reason for setting up a separate blog is three-fold:

1.) I can't be bothered to maintain a blog on a free webhost. The security and maintenance issues are too much of a pain. I even chose cmSimple for the content management on Lost Data because it didn't use a database.
2.) I actually want to run feedback via the blog rather than email or web forums.
3.) Search engines don't seem to have the actual Lost Data site ranked highly. You'd think a site offering games so many people have searched for would be easily found. Hopefully, people will actually be able to find these Toonami games now.

Of course, sites such as Blogger don't allow unlimited uploading and file management, thus necessitating the need for a free webhost. Tracking forum discussions is too much work and someone of them have disappeared (such as Toon Zone's Toonami/X Bridge board).

Anyway, initial posts will consist of games already found, while adding whatever else I'm working on. I may also transition into Adult Swim and other Cartoon Network games/web content.

(P.S. Someone should harass Williams Street into giving me the Trapped in Hyperspace game.)