Kirby 64 Promo Game

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.


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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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.