Crazy to see the level of dedication that Kardino and his pals have for the franchise and the level they went to get some of these mobile games. Also I don't know why but the Aiai face when you do something wrong in Aiai's Funhouse makes me laugh.
I know! I'm really grateful that they all reached out to me before I made a video that would have been hugely incomplete! Haha, I know! It makes it funnier that AiAi being sad is literally the only penalty for getting a black banana too! Like it literally doesn't do anything but upset him a bit!
This video surely has a few hundread thousand views... *checks views* Whaaaaat? Top tier video, thank you! Love Monkey Ball games and J2ME games, perfect video.
What an amazing video :D I'm proud of the work we have accomplished to preserve the games, and I'm very glad that more people can learn more about these obscure games and hopefully can give them a try; a taste of the early 2000s long gone
Thank you so much! I'm extremely proud of all the preservation work too! It was amazing to be there for a part of the journey and to finally be able to talk about these games in depth! :D
In the early to mid 90s Java was considered a very neat technology because it eliminated the need to make multiple ports of your software (X86, PowerPC, MC68000, etc..) as the same code would run on every architecture that had a JVM (virtual machine) made for it. It was instrumental in establishing interoperability in computing and Internet at the time. On the other hand, for an environment like Java, performance was always an issue with the limited computing power of old. In facts I do think that even running simple games on early 2000s mobile phones CPUs was a bit of a stretch as far as how Java should have been used. Your emulator (which I presume is yet an other implementation of a JVM) renders J2ME games much better than any old flip phone from 2003 could have hoped to.
That's really interesting! Despite Java not really being talked about much now it seems it had a huge impact back when it was used. Yeah, when I was doing a bit of research for this video I found lots of people saying that the issue with Java isn't so much Java itself but that mobile CPUs weren't really made for games. I suspect that you're probably right about the emulator I used, although I know very little about the technical details! I did manage to get it working though so that's a plus 😀
Collaborations done right: When the host little about the process, where it is better to have someone else explain it. Also... 25:51 Obligatory dance scene. :)
Yeah I knew that Kardino would be able to add a lot to this video given that he was actively involved with finding them! Haha, this is probably the most intense dance scene we've had for a while :D
Thanks! Yeah I do have a Christmas themed video planned and I really want to do another cooking video too! Whether it'll be Oddworld related I'm not sure though but we'll see! Most likely the cooking video will be out after Christmas though!
java games were released in different versions for different phones to adjust the their screen size the version of Tip 'n Tilt 2 that you included in the video is for a phone with a smaller screen, that's why it looks kinda bad there are versions for a bigger screen with better resolution the first game still looks better imo
I would bet that a lot of other people have never heard of SMB Mobile either, it's probably one of the most obscure games in the entire series! I've never played Neverball though!
