Bring Back SVES

I tried to make my own Toonami, but my obsession with gambling and Craigslist prevented me from completing the project.  Also, I have difficulty keeping track of anime and such on YouTube.

Perhaps I should switch to trying to make my own SVES.  It never had an online component such as Toonami Reactor or Jetstream, but there's no time like the present...

New Archive File

Since MegaUpload went down, a new game archive file has to be posted somewhere.  It doesn't include just games anymore, but anything Toonami or Cartoon Network-related.  Most items were found in the Internet Archive, but an English copy of Hi-Hi Puffy Treasure Island and a Megas XLR game were retrieved from foreign Cartoon Network websites.

Mediafire should be a good host for now: 
http://www.mediafire.com/?rbmt9kfblep72wl

Some new content in the archive includes:
Batman & Superman Adventures:  World's Finest:  Gauntlet of Doom.
A Megas XLR game (Final Battle -- from a non-U.S. Cartoon Network website).
A Moltar comic (from http://nightmare-hq.com/Toonami/).
A Transformers game from the Toonami UK website (Battle for Megatron).
A Teen Titans game (Battle Blitz).
Hi-Hi Puffy Treasure Island and Ninja Rock (Not Toonami, but some fun games).
Scuba Jo-Jo game from the Powerpuff Girls.

Plus any non-game content that wasn't included in the earlier version.

Wallpaper - Space Station

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

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.

Toonami Endgame

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.

Riddler's Secret Identity Inventor

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

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

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

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

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.)

Sasami's Run

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.)

IGPX Spanish Version

(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.

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

(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

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.

Link Dump I

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

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.