iYamato battleship game for IOS

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iYamato battleship game for IOS Oct 18, 2017 17:58:17 GMT

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Developed by Geppetto inc, iYamato was a "how long can you survive" style game where you played as the Yamato battleship that sunk in WW2. A trailer for the game can be found here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKlyxk_A7JMv=jKlyxk_A7JM The links under the video appear to be unarchived, as Apple never loaded the site without Itunes before a couple years ago, and the page is just archived as a loading bar. A few sites made short articles about the game, although it remained obscure for it's entire existence of the App store. Here are some articles - www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/iYamato/news.asp?c=14156 http://toucharcade.com/2009/06/30/iyamato-currently-sixth-on-japans-top-ten/ and some listings - www.metacritic.com/game/ios/iyamato https://www.gamefaqs.com/iphone/637754-yamato-final-assault

The last upload on Geppetto inc's youtube page was 7 years ago, only 1 year after advertising Yamato, so I assume that Yoshiyuki Miyagawa (CEO of the company Geppetto inc) was not satisfied with his profits after a long time in the video game industry (14 years at Square Enix)

Based on this forum thread mentioned in the Touch Arcade article - forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=17250 Yoshiyuki stopped updating the game around 2010, if you look to page 18. He was last active early 2010. forums.toucharcade.com/member.php?s=93ffe833cce00d84b82a87a6dcfcf7db&u=9787

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parad00xx New Member walked in the woods... Posts: 6	iYamato battleship game for IOS Nov 16, 2017 16:45:50 GMT dogpolygonrt66 likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by parad00xx on Nov 16, 2017 16:45:50 GMT www.iphonecake.com/app_318764748_.html#

dogpolygonrt66 Seriously Dedicated Found three items Posts: 713	iYamato battleship game for IOS Nov 16, 2017 20:34:53 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Nov 16, 2017 20:34:53 GMT Nov 16, 2017 16:45:50 GMT parad00xx said: www.iphonecake.com/app_318764748_.html# Can't see the download links, but thanks.
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dogpolygonrt66 Seriously Dedicated Found three items Posts: 713	iYamato battleship game for IOS Nov 18, 2017 7:30:29 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Nov 18, 2017 7:30:29 GMT Nov 16, 2017 16:45:50 GMT parad00xx said: www.iphonecake.com/app_318764748_.html# Can you see the download links? I cannot find them on that page.
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iYamato battleship game for IOS Nov 19, 2017 19:33:13 GMT

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Nov 18, 2017 7:30:29 GMT dogpolygonrt66 said:

Nov 16, 2017 16:45:50 GMT parad00xx said:

www.iphonecake.com/app_318764748_.html#

Can you see the download links? I cannot find them on that page.

There are no download links unfortunately, but there is so much info there

dogpolygonrt66 Seriously Dedicated Found three items Posts: 713	iYamato battleship game for IOS Oct 19, 2018 3:42:19 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Oct 19, 2018 3:42:19 GMT Still haven't managed to find any major info on Iyamato. Would love to find a download someday but like some of my other ventures, this one looks pretty unlikely to locate, but I've gotten lucky before.
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dogpolygonrt66 Seriously Dedicated Found three items Posts: 713	iYamato battleship game for IOS Oct 19, 2018 3:44:19 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Oct 19, 2018 3:44:19 GMT Just noticed, from browsing what little other content the dev had posted to that forum, that his other games appear to be missing too, notably Ininja2.0.
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dogpolygonrt66 Seriously Dedicated Found three items Posts: 713	iYamato battleship game for IOS Nov 18, 2018 10:13:48 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Nov 18, 2018 10:13:48 GMT Found his linkedin. I wonder if I can get in contact with him.
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dogpolygonrt66 Seriously Dedicated Found three items Posts: 713	iYamato battleship game for IOS Nov 18, 2018 10:18:00 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Nov 18, 2018 10:18:00 GMT Missed that he was the lead programmer for Final Fantasy online on the PS2. Crazy. Also that the app got into the top 10 on the app store in Japan in 2009.
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iYamato battleship game for IOS Nov 18, 2018 10:29:35 GMT

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getapp.info/download/iYamato_1.0-Hexhammer.ipa This used to be a link to download a cracked IPA for the game, but it seems to have been offline for years now along with the main domain.

web.archive.org/web/20090904020608/http://www.appscene.org:80/download.php?id=782352934 here's another lead, but it, also, has been offline for years. If anyone can grab anything from this archive, thanks.

I managed to find his twitter: twitter.com/hotmiyacchi but he hasn't been active in a month, though it's a better prospect than the rest of the leads. I tried to tweet to him but it seems that one of my plugins or twitter is acting up and I can't type messages right.

themaddrive.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/2/7/16279298/the_mad_drive_july-august_masterlist_(2015).xlsx Some guys who illegally sell files for a living through hard drives claim to have the game IPA, but who knows if it's true and I am sure as hell not paying some shady dude.

www.facebook.com/TheMadDrive They've got a facebook and this whole scheme seems weird.

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dogpolygonrt66 Seriously Dedicated Found three items Posts: 713	iYamato battleship game for IOS Nov 18, 2018 11:07:26 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Nov 18, 2018 11:07:26 GMT forums.redflagdeals.com/android-iphone-apps-you-cant-live-without-1098057/ Mentioned on october 28th, 2011, so that means it wasn't deleted super soon after it was put on the store.
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dogpolygonrt66 Seriously Dedicated Found three items Posts: 713	iYamato battleship game for IOS Nov 19, 2018 4:50:13 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Nov 19, 2018 4:50:13 GMT app.box.com/s/0kaeaeeypj I think I may have found it. Don't have an IOS emulator though so no clue.
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