They're probably lost (well, not lost, since the publishers and developers almost definitely still have copies, but unavailable to the public). Despite the fact that Japanese feature phones are still relatively common in Japan, when modern American phones like iOS and Android went over there, most game companies discontinued most of their i-mode, EZWeb, Yahoo Keitai, etc. gaming services, making a LOT of stuff unavailable.
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Treasure MathStorm! They made us play it at my school too. Now if only someone could help identify the game with the family of three gorillas that needed to climb on top of each other to reach fruit in a tree...
I was actually in contact with the guys that made the cartoon. Royer Studios. Me and Bruce Royer exchanged a few emails back in 2013, and he said he was planning to upload a copy to Dropbox, but he apparently never got around to it. It's apparently part of a larger video called "The D.A.R.E. Report."
Any Pokemon stuff? Most of the stuff I'm interested in is from before 2002, sadly, but there might be something worthwhile. Commercials might also be interesting, particularly ones featuring animation.
Disney buying Lucasfilm may have been good for Lucasfilm as a company, but there were some controversial decisions made, such as the creation of a two-canon system, Disney and Legends. Most Expanded Universe content released before the decision was announced in 2014 was tossed aside into the Legends canon, which is essentially locked from further additions. Some "Legends" material is still in print, and others are out of print, but copies still circulate in the secondhand market, so it's not too big a deal for them. But some content was released via the Internet, and some of that content was exclusive to the paid subscription service Hyperspace. Several short stories were released exclusively through Hyperspace, and while I've seen many of them posted elsewhere (torrents, most of which are dead, Russian fansites, etc) some I was unable to find.
Disney eliminated a lot of stuff from the site when they took over.
There is also non-Hyperspace content, like videos that were available streaming in the last couple years before the buyout. For example, the commercial for the book Vector Prime. While this video is on YouTube, it originates from a recording made when it originally aired back in 1999, so the quality isn't good. Presumably, the StarWars.com version would be higher quality. The Wayback Machine can't archive these videos, because they're streamed. It also can't archive Hyperspace content because it requires logging in to access it.
Do you think there's any chance of recovering this stuff?
I wish there were a way to access purposely deleted articles, personally. The article I made for Rare's Donkey Kong game assets, which is probably the article I spent most time on, was deleted for being "A bit too vague and impractical for an article."
Admins can still access deleted articles; I would be happy to recover the source code for you.
I wish there were a way to access purposely deleted articles, personally. The article I made for Rare's Donkey Kong game assets, which is probably the article I spent most time on, was deleted for being "A bit too vague and impractical for an article."
There are also three prime time specials: Pocket Monsters, Fall Special! (ポケットモンスター・秋のスペシャル!) Pocket Monsters, Winter Special! (ポケットモンスター・冬のスペシャル!) (Apparently, this one never aired, either) It's the New Year! Pocket Monsters Special! (お正月だよ!ポケットモンスタースペシャル!) (Some footage from this one is available: the opening and ending are on the article for the other New Year's special, some other clips are on YouTube, and some of the animation was reused for a direct-to-video rental-exclusive clip show series called Pocket Monsters TV Special: Masara Town Arc Recap)
I'd like to find these. I'd like to check some Japanese P2P services, like Perfect Dark, but I can't get it working. Can anyone else look?
The torrent group Cartoon World released episodes of Pokémon Chronicles back when they were new, so around 2006. At least some of them used the Toonami Jetstream-exclusive opening theme, which was instrumental with voice clips from episodes of the show. It can be seen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV4s_iUN3LU
But the quality is horrendous. I want this intro in decent quality. Does anyone have the original releases? Or better yet, the intro without the Cartoon World stuff hard-coded onto the title screen?
This is from 2006 and it's Japanese, but I've never seen Pokémon PC Master for download or even for sale. It seems to have only been released through educational outlets for use in schools.
"Okay, I have something to add. I was in contact with Chris Mitchell a few years ago. He recorded several shows, and he actually mailed me several DVDs of them. So, including the one that's on YouTube, I have six shows, though one of them is incomplete.
The shows are:
9/30/2000 Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY (INCOMPLETE)
10/14/2000 Wallingford, CT
10/22/2000 Toronto, ON
11/30/2000 Charlotte, NC
12/30/2000 Milwaukee, WI
1/5/2001 Chicago, IL
He also sent me the original cast recording and a disc of extras like commercials, news footage, etc. I suppose I could share."
That was me. Sorry it's been so long. I've actually ripped all the shows to my hard drive, but now comes the monumental task of uploading them: the files are a few gigabytes each and my Internet speed isn't exactly space age.
EDIT: Link removed.
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A simple Google search for this title led me here: tv.xfinity.com/entity/7823427019863242112 It looks like Xfinity has this movie available for streaming. I don't have Comcast, so I can't fully confirm that it's really streaming, but it looks pretty promising.