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Click Wheel games were games you could play on your iPod. These games were unique in that they are not able to be played on devices other than iPods. There were pre-installed games, and then there were extra games that could be bought and installed from the | Click Wheel games were games you could play on your iPod. These games were unique in that they are not able to be played on devices other than iPods. There were pre-installed games, and then there were extra games that could be bought and installed from the Click Wheel games store found within iTunes. The Click Wheel games store was closed in 2011, thus preventing any new purchases of these games.Most of these extra (not pre-installed) game files have been lost to time, and this page serves to help give the current status of what is lost and what is found. It also list what games have been cracked. Back in (date required) a group of iPod Modders successfully cracked a portion of the available click wheel games that were able to be played with the use of a custom version 1.2 firmware for the 5th and 5.5 generation iPod Video. | ||
Any users who have the original email and copies for games they may have bought can still sign them within [[iTunes]] and sync them to any compatible iPods. Games can also be extracted from iPods using the restore purchases function when an iPod with the game files is plugged in. Unfortunately, only versions of iTunes 12 that are below 12.7 will still allow users to add new authorizations for game owning accounts as older versions no longer allow use of the iTunes store. Users can bypass the 5 machine authing limit with use of the [[ICrack|iCrack Method]]. | |||
It is currently not fully known how the original 20 games were cracked for the iPod Video and efforts are ongoing to replicate the cracked firmware's functionality. As of writing this Click Wheel games rely on having game files present along with the file named IC-Info.sidb which can be found inside the hidden folder iPod_Control/iTunes found in any iPod. When attempting to run the games the serial number of the iPod is checked (and sometimes a currently unknown second value). A full disc clone alongside a rom serial swap has been proven to allow games signed on one iPod to work on another, but rom editing is highly advised against due to the current unstable state of it and the ability to brick an iPod instead of writing data. | |||
At the end of this wiki entry are some resources for further reading and watching. | At the end of this wiki entry are some resources for further reading and watching. | ||
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===iPod Modding=== | ===iPod Modding=== | ||
Page for the publicly available modified firmware and still useable games: https://macjunkie.org/?p=705 </br> | Page for the publicly available modified firmware and still useable games: https://macjunkie.org/?p=705 </br> | ||
Page to xLinka's GitHub page on how the 1.3 Patch was made: https://github.com/Xlinka/iPodReverseEngineering | Page to xLinka's GitHub page on how the 1.3 Patch was made: https://github.com/Xlinka/iPodReverseEngineering | ||
===Cracked Games=== | |||
Guide written by [[User:Quix]] on how to add cracked games to the iPod Video: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AvcYxtNeRY9V6Upf8olc6h1_6Lujy7s2?usp=sharing | |||
===ROM Editing (Serial Swap Method)=== | |||
Tool used to change the data found on an iPod's ROM chip, can be helpful for experimenting with serial swapping to run games (WARNING: this is prototype software and there are cases of it unintentionally bricking iPods): https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/classic-ipod-tools/blob/main/ipod_flasher/ipodflasher.c | |||
Latest revision as of 03:35, 20 September 2022
About
Click Wheel games were games you could play on your iPod. These games were unique in that they are not able to be played on devices other than iPods. There were pre-installed games, and then there were extra games that could be bought and installed from the Click Wheel games store found within iTunes. The Click Wheel games store was closed in 2011, thus preventing any new purchases of these games.Most of these extra (not pre-installed) game files have been lost to time, and this page serves to help give the current status of what is lost and what is found. It also list what games have been cracked. Back in (date required) a group of iPod Modders successfully cracked a portion of the available click wheel games that were able to be played with the use of a custom version 1.2 firmware for the 5th and 5.5 generation iPod Video.
Any users who have the original email and copies for games they may have bought can still sign them within iTunes and sync them to any compatible iPods. Games can also be extracted from iPods using the restore purchases function when an iPod with the game files is plugged in. Unfortunately, only versions of iTunes 12 that are below 12.7 will still allow users to add new authorizations for game owning accounts as older versions no longer allow use of the iTunes store. Users can bypass the 5 machine authing limit with use of the iCrack Method.
It is currently not fully known how the original 20 games were cracked for the iPod Video and efforts are ongoing to replicate the cracked firmware's functionality. As of writing this Click Wheel games rely on having game files present along with the file named IC-Info.sidb which can be found inside the hidden folder iPod_Control/iTunes found in any iPod. When attempting to run the games the serial number of the iPod is checked (and sometimes a currently unknown second value). A full disc clone alongside a rom serial swap has been proven to allow games signed on one iPod to work on another, but rom editing is highly advised against due to the current unstable state of it and the ability to brick an iPod instead of writing data.
At the end of this wiki entry are some resources for further reading and watching.
Click Wheel Games List
Default (Preinstalled)
Available on iPod video w/ cracked firmware
Bejeweled
Cubis 2
iQuiz
Lost
Mahjong
Mini Golf
Ms. Pac-Man
Musika
Pac-Man
Royal Solitaire
SAT Prep 2008 (Math)
SAT Prep 2008 (Reading)
SAT Prep 2008 (Writing)
Sudoku
Tetris
Texas Hold'Em
The Sims Bowling
The Sims Pool
Vortex
Zuma
Archived (Uncracked)
Asphalt 4: Elite Racing
Bomberman
Brain Challenge
Bubble Bash
Cake Mania 3
Chalkboard Sports Baseball
Chess & Backgammon
Chinese Checkers
Crystal Defenders
CSI: Miami
Lode Runner
Monopoly
Mystery Mansion Pinball
Naval Battle
Peggle
Phase
Pirates of the Caribbean: Aegir's Fire
Pole Position Remix
Real Soccer '09
Reversi
Scrabble
Slyder Adventures
Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes
Sonic the Hedgehog
Spore Origins
Star Trigon
Tamagotchi: 'Round the World
The Sims DJ
Tiger Woods PGA Tour
Trivial Pursuit
Uno
Wonder Blocks
Yahtzee
Misc Software
iQuiz Maker (Official Software for making custom iQuiz Quizzes and adding iQuiz Themes)
Resources
Game Archive
Archive.org link to all of the ipg files available: https://archive.org/details/ipod-click-wheel-games-archive
iPod Modding
Page for the publicly available modified firmware and still useable games: https://macjunkie.org/?p=705
Page to xLinka's GitHub page on how the 1.3 Patch was made: https://github.com/Xlinka/iPodReverseEngineering
Cracked Games
Guide written by User:Quix on how to add cracked games to the iPod Video: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AvcYxtNeRY9V6Upf8olc6h1_6Lujy7s2?usp=sharing
ROM Editing (Serial Swap Method)
Tool used to change the data found on an iPod's ROM chip, can be helpful for experimenting with serial swapping to run games (WARNING: this is prototype software and there are cases of it unintentionally bricking iPods): https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/classic-ipod-tools/blob/main/ipod_flasher/ipodflasher.c