A living archive for games with unfinished business

Save the whole little world, not just the file.

Some games are just files. Others are tiny worlds with strong opinions about which phone they want to live in. Jarassic Park brings them back with the right screen, buttons, sounds, clues, and a clear answer about what we can share. Every playable game gets the full detective treatment.

Take the tour Read the tiny field guide

WHERE WE ARE: Public preview
WHAT WE LOVE: Old mobile games
SHARING STYLE: Careful and clear

PLAY
THE
WHOLE STORY

What we keep in the box

01 The game 02 The clues 03 The setup 04 Share rules

01 / Why we’re doing this

Tiny games deserve the royal treatment.

A game is not just the little file you download. It is the screen it expected, the buttons it knew, the sound it made, and the exact version that once felt right.

We keep those details together so a curious human can tell what we saw, what we rebuilt, and what still needs a detective hat. No mystery goo. Just good records and a lot of love for tiny machines.

See how the rescue mission works

02 / The first piece of proof

One little game. Every clue.

The next step lives right here. No hover puzzles, mystery downloads, or secret handshake required.

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ON THE DESKCASE / JP-0001

PacMan J2ME

PacMan J2ME is our small, friendly test case. The source project is GPL, and we are still checking the exact release. It gives us a safe little way to test the JAR and JAD together before we touch restricted material.

WHAT KIND OF GAME: Java ME / MIDlet
WHAT WE KEEP: .jar + .jad + manifest
WHERE IT RUNS: FreeJ2ME-Plus · desktop/Linux
WHERE IT CAME FROM: Source trail found · hash pending
SHARE RULES: GPL project · verify release notice
HOW SURE ARE WE: 3 / 4

See the starter kit NEXT: get it · hash it · launch it

03 / Two ways into the archive

Same pocket. Two little worlds.

Java ME / J2ME

The JAR-and-JAD duo

Java ME games usually arrive as a JAR plus a JAD. Think of them as the game and its tiny instruction card. We keep both, plus the phone and runtime settings, because old games are wonderfully picky.

Read the Java ME explainer

Native Symbian

The phone-native original

Native Symbian games arrive differently, often as SIS or SISX packages. They may also need a particular phone, operating system, firmware, or signing setup. The file may need a whole little habitat.

Read the careful-access note

04 / Our tiny starter kit

Start with one friendly game.

We start with a small, safe-to-understand kit. It can test the rescue routine without quietly downloading a commercial game or phone firmware. Tiny steps. Fewer goblins.

FreeJ2ME-PlusA place to run Java ME games

READY TO CHECK

PacMan J2MEA JAR/JAD test game

CHECK THE RELEASE

EKA2L1A possible home for native Symbian games

NEEDS MORE CLUES

Evidence notes → HotMemThe evidence notebook and portable game state

UNDER THE HOOD

05 / The sharing rules

Open tools.
Thoughtful sharing.

We can share the map, the notes, and the tools we made. We do not toss commercial game files, phone firmware, music, art, or manuals into the open just because we found them. Those things stay separate until we know what the rights allow. This is for helping the right people play and learn, not for making a giant unattended download pile.

See what can be shared

06 / Bring your weird little clue

Got a clue?
Come nerd out.

We are building this in public. If you have a game, a phone note, a rights answer, a correction, or a memory that sounds too specific to matter, please bring it. Those are often the bits that save the day.

Bring us a clue