More games have been saved and preserved as part of the ongoing efforts to preserve and document forgotten mobile games, as the feature phone preservationist RockmanCosmo has announced that Sonic no Daifugou an old Sonic the Hedgehog card game from the mid-to-late 2000s is among the latest titles to have been saved, alongside Taiko no Tatsujin 4 F, and Super Bomberman G Wide.
Cosmo explained that another prominent member of the ongoing efforts to save Japanese feature phone games published for DoCoMo’s i-mode service, named Xyz had managed to update their custom ktdumpertool to include early Mitsubishi and Fujitsu DoCoMo phone models, and this allowed them and another named @GoodTofuFriday to band together to dump a new selection of games, while two others, known as @m3M0RyHuN73R & @XLeonier got the the games up and running on the emulator found inside the DoJa 5.1 SDK.
For those curious, Sonic no Daifugou is a Japanese mobile game released for platforms like i-mode, EZ Web, Vodafone Live!, Club-Air Edge, and Emobile between 2005-2008 and is a take on the Japanese card game Millionaire. The goal is for players to get rid of all their cards as fast as possible by playing stronger cards than their opponents. The game was downloadable through the Sonic Cafe online portal.
You can see some footage in the tweet below.
Here's some gameplay of Sonic Daifugo. As you can tell, I don't really know what I'm doing… pic.twitter.com/CDUtgkuEeZ
— RockmanCosmo (@RockmanCosmo) January 8, 2024
