I'm not dead. One last thing I could've mentioned in the trivia section is that in the trailer footage at 39:25 you can see the Elf Apartments in the inventory but they have no Elf character showing with them, and I have no idea what that's about.
@HarryTheLoser Unfortunately all I've found since the last video is another photo, this time showing the inside of the fridge from what I think was an ad agency website originally static.wikia.nocookie.net/lostmedia/images/7/70/ERN_-1.png/revision/latest?cb=20240607012214
you managed to bring back Spongebob Moves in I can't believe that I love you, can you fix the game Monopoly Hotel for Android and iOS, too? because the servers for that game have shut down, I think it can be played offline. PS: Monopoly Hotel is not a board game I know that when you search it on Google it shows a board game but it is also a mobile game
Honestly one of my favourite genres of videos is "Some guy talks about his very specific desire to play some old incredibly obscure game and so he spends ages trying everything as he gives a bit by bit rundown of everything he did until it finally worked" so I very much enjoyed this
I love it when people do this! Saying "screw you big companies, I'm going to keep playing your game!" and playing a dead game is one of my favorite thing to do. I am still trying to revive the _Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles_ game, which I haven't been able to do yet because I need the cache data.
Him uploading everything to the internet archive so nobody has to go through all this again is such a boss move that rarely happens, thank you for this
My mom and I used to be obsessed with this game. I actually still have it on my iPad, it still works and I have Gary unlocked. He, along with every other character, wants these birthday cake items from the birthday blowout event… which are literally impossible to make now, lol. My mom says it still works on her phone, but some of the graphics, (such as most of the buildings.) are corrupted and show up as a weird garbled mess of graphics. This was a fantastic video, really hoping it gets more traction, great work man.
I think the fact that you explicitly remember so much about small details and exact operations of the game making this entire video possible is pretty damn wild lol
Still pissed that I never got to play Pocket God Facebook as a kid, and now it's pretty much lost media that doesn't have a search demand I WANT TO PLAY POCKET GOD FACEBOOK SO BADLY
I still remember watching the ads for this game that’d air inbetween commercial breaks, it really was just a kid friendly version of Simpsons Tapped Out! with maybe a little bit of The Quest for Stuff from Family Guy
I'm glad to see someone not only take the time to talk about this quirky little bit of Spongebob history (one myself I enjoyed when it existed), but also fully archive it as best they can for people to still play and get a close look into at least some of the inner workings of the app. Amazing video, absolutely criminal this hasn't even broken 10k views yes. Hope that changes!
"Your not getting the game." "But I want the game I want SpongeBob" A few quotes from a certain video referencing this game that caused someone to end up on the news!
@CocoGames_0 That's from the SML Short Jeffy's Tantrum. Which was the ONE that got the channel not only age restricted, but also on Good Morning America because of some stupid kid! God I feel bad for the SML crew, they got put on the news over some stupid kid that shouldn't have been watching the videos in the first place...
As someone who participated in the Fry Cook Games event, I believe the Colosseum was either directly given at some point (like a community prize or smth) or just plopped right in the land expansion with the Health Store at the beginning. I don't remember being able to move or store it, though.
My town is still there, after I started the game after around 10 years. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said to my Family Guy town. My tapped out game save was connected to EA's cloud system, unlike the Family Guy one.
@@jrperry1611 I’ve tried it and the mobile version is a hot mess. On a certain mission. You are physically unable to progress, I think it’s the sandy mini game were you have to throw stuff at the tickler or whatever, but he just ducks under everything and you can’t win. It’s not just a me thing either, I’ve seen the reviews and people are stating the same issue. I think the pc version is functional though, I’m just pissed I wasted money on a game that is impossible to beat.
Games based on licensed IPs should allow offline play even if servers shut down and reinstall from the app library if delisted from digital storefronts. I have a few games that I can still download and play that were delisted (Ski Safari: Adventure Time), but this is probably the first time a game that you would have to pay, be almost remotely useless or broken (mobile game-wise).
Yeah, this happens quite a bit with Triple A games. But for a mobile game you plopped down money for and are expected to KEEP plopping down money for to buy things..... yeah, it's pretty egregious.
Was just kinda expecting a retrospective on the game (i played it a ton growing up) but honestly this was really engaging and fun, nice work, hopefully this video pops off.
i was so pissed when they took this offline. all my years of grinding patties at the krab. gone. i had all of the main characters. they're gone too. i put so many hours into this game just to have it ripped away from me. on judgment day, when god convenes with his clergy of sinners, saints, angels, and demons, viacom shall pay for condemning me to this shakespearean tragedy.
That's funny, what country are you from if you don't mind me asking because I only remember seeing it advertised like twice, I'm wondering if they pushed it more in different places. Not that it matters at all but really I suppose none of this does.
I'm from Jamaica but had US cable. I vividly remember seeing commercials for this game and begging my mom to buy it but she wouldn't let me @@AubreyHolmes
I have so much nostalgia for this game, I died of nostalgia when I saw the opening cutscene. My little child heart was destroyed after I saw that it was closing down. I remember exactly where I was when it happened (I was in the car having my tablet out near a motel)
21:35 this is true up to a point. while the sonic racer decomp video by mattkc goes into more detail about unity decomps, the gist of it is that unity added a feature to the engine in version 5 called il2cpp (intermediate language to cpp). this basically turns the jit bytecode into true machine code by doing exactly what it says on the tin - converting it to c++ before compiling. this makes reverse engineering a lot harder, but could theoretically decrease file size and improve performance since it's running native code, not a just in time compiler
I remember having this game on iOS. Unfortunately i didn’t go too far into it before it closed. Because i first had it in 2018. But i didn’t know it was THAT old. Neither is it being “lost” cuz i downloaded it in 2018 anyway, and i could go through my old purchases and redownload it, and speaking of redownloading, i already did.
I had forgotten about this game's existing but the moment I saw the title I knew exactly what it was, very fascinating video! The fact this only have 1k views is a crime, the video is very well put together and interesting. Had no idea the game received official support for nearly 10 years...
There’s a SpongeBob game in the mid 2010s that i lost, it’s a game where you played as sponge bob serving kraby patty and you need to click on the costumer to serve them than SpongeBob would walk to serve them, than they would leave dirty plates on the tables than we have to click it than SpongeBob would walk there and pick it (I remember you could stack it too not sure though).
this game was a core memory for me. i remember playing it, god, ten years ago? it was on a hand-me-down phone and i remember having fun with it until one day, i got my first "real" smartphone, (i.e. with cellular service) and i forgot it existed. to hear that it's just gone was a little upsetting, glad to see what you've done here.
I played the hell out of this game growing up and I remember when the game shut down I tried getting it back up and running with the OBBs and such but to no prevail. Amazing video, can't wait for the next one!
I remember this was the first phone game I bought and I begged so much to get it (we were poor 💀) only for the game to take FOREVER to launch. thank you for reviving these memories.
This is awesome! There are many games that have been removed that I wished I could get back up working. This scratches the itch a little, and I'm just impressive you got it working. Great stuff!
as a hobbyist gamedev in my free time, love watching stuff like this, it shows me what not to do to players (like taking a game that has an offline mode and killing it entirely just because we're taking down the servers) I REMEMBER PATRICK BEING A LEVEL 30 SOMETHING UNLOCK I WAS SO UPSET CUS I WANTED TO HAVE THEM BOTH TOGETHER AND MAKE BIKINI BOTTOM LOOK LIKE IT DOES ON TV
Thank you so much for jogging my memory about playing this game! I remember playing this game because I couldn't find my favorite Town Builder game anymore!
Speaking of which, this game having a fully offline mode remind me of my favorite Town Builder game that had an official conversion by the company who made it to be entirely offline and playable without internet. This basically means that you can download the app and still be able to play it to this day, just with all the social features ripped out. I don't remember when the game still had service if there was an option to switch the servers off or not put in general , as for the general video it was so cool to see you go in depth on all this tech stuff, it was really cool that you still got the game working all these years later! Thank you so much for all of your hard work and thank the Developers for not hiding their code super discreetly and slapping it into an easily accessible json.
In part 5, you mention the game acting weird now, and that's because the servers still hosting any data at all (aka the shutdown message) has itself been shut down, and the game hangs as it trys to get any server connection, eventually failling over to the offline mode.
@@AubreyHolmes Out of curiosity, would someone be able to feasibly edit out all of the game’s ability for telemetry that causes the server to get pinged or would that fundamentally break the whole thing?
Whenever I've tried to touch anything other than game.json even the slightest bit the game has just hung at the splash screen but a couple of people who know more about this kind of thing than me have said it's almost definitely doable, so I'll have a look into it.
At 34:38 , I think the reason why the amount of food you can have is 32767 is that is the highest number you can display in the 16-bit integer binary code.
Finding in this video that David Mitchell was in one of those "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" commercials as a PC just makes me wanna buy a PC over a Mac. DM is a treasure.
I remember seeing ads for this game as a kid! For some reason I never ask my parents to download it even though I want it. Wished I did lol. Great video btw, love watching the old SpongeBob gameplay lol.
Reminds me a lot of my personal experiences messing with ios file directories of my favorite games back in the day. Your archival efforts don't go unnoticed! Thank you!
i vaguely remember this game existing as a kid but my parents didnt believe in spending money on the app stores so i never played it. im immediately loading it onto my phone as im typing this comment. great video, agree with all the other comments saying this deserves to have way more views than it does. hope this blows up, you deserve as much
bro, this game and simpsons tapped out were the shit back then. i will always remember these games. it was so sad to hear this game got completely wiped from existence.
Still amazes me how Tapped Out still has updates to this day but it also sucks I can't access my account anymore because they require a code to be sent to your Email and the Email I used doesn't exist anymore
Absolute legend! I remember this game i always used to play it, though i never got far, but it was just completely erased from my memory, love the video and all the work mate, you deserve way more views! Subbed!
ultimatespongebobfan101 mentioned + peak game mentioned also very good video! also back in the day, you were required to have wifi on iOS, it was agonizingly slow too :)
underrated channel, wish the algorithm would promote this more and hey, thanks to it i got here so good going on that end. 16:25 and yes i instantly thought of this albeit I knew this game had to be Unity based so you'd need a bit more work to get the assets out, good thing you did
Oh, I remember that game! I especially remember when SML did a video where Jeffy asked Mario to buy him this game which lead to the episode ending up on the news cause a kid almost hanged himself after watching it.
Love this, didn’t know it was taken down, I have redownloaded it twice in the past couple years. Need one of these for minions paradise and SpongeBob marbles and slides now tho
Thanks for sharing! It came out around same time as Simpsons mobile tap game with similar play structure. And I think ultimately they all came as a result of games like Age of Empires and FarmVille. lol
34:38 32767 is the maximum signed 16-bit integer. It's probably capped there since it takes way less bytes to store and is probably very hard to reach by normal means.
There’s this mobile game I used to play as a kid called Aqua Pets. There are a few ads left on TH-cam and someone has uploaded the background music. Other than an old website, some old ads and some screenshots I can’t find much on it. There are a few sketchy downloads online but they scare me. You played as a little yellow dot character and you used coins and pearls for upgrades to get better fish. I miss it so much, I tried to get my boyfriend to revive it but he wasn’t able :(((
Genuinely shocked you have such a low subscriber and view count for this otherwise very impressive video! Digital necromancy just isn't as appreciated as it should be, I suppose
I remember this game, I used to have it and I loved it! Admittedly, it was essentially The Simpsons: Tapped Out with SpongeBob, but I used to like that game and I liked this one too when I still had it. Good times, good times
I’ve never played SpongeBob Moves In due to not being able to pay for it, but I remember seeing commercials for it all the time back in 2013. Ahhh the good old days
This video makes me so happy. I played this game so much when I was a kid and I did the same thing (minus the infinite money) and was devastated to see it shut down
This video right here made me realize...... Wait this was taken off google play and app store? (Actually all the apps were removed, I just checked soooo RIP Nickelodeon Apps 2010s - 2024? Idk)
I'm not dead.
One last thing I could've mentioned in the trivia section is that in the trailer footage at 39:25 you can see the Elf Apartments in the inventory but they have no Elf character showing with them, and I have no idea what that's about.
Thank god, by the way (I don't expect anything) have there been any updates on the pg tips flash games?
@HarryTheLoser Unfortunately all I've found since the last video is another photo, this time showing the inside of the fridge from what I think was an ad agency website originally static.wikia.nocookie.net/lostmedia/images/7/70/ERN_-1.png/revision/latest?cb=20240607012214
you managed to bring back Spongebob Moves in I can't believe that I love you, can you fix the game Monopoly Hotel for Android and iOS, too? because the servers for that game have shut down, I think it can be played offline.
PS: Monopoly Hotel is not a board game I know that when you search it on Google it shows a board game but it is also a mobile game
Can you remake SpongeBob Diner Dash?
@@SillyTheReallyCoolGuy AGREE!!!! i miss spongebob diner dash
Honestly one of my favourite genres of videos is "Some guy talks about his very specific desire to play some old incredibly obscure game and so he spends ages trying everything as he gives a bit by bit rundown of everything he did until it finally worked" so I very much enjoyed this
Ok?
Same
@@fukhyu3330 dle
@@SourBoy I love that genre too but I need more examples
So basically, a Nick Robinson video lol
I’m glad I ain’t the only one who thinks “JASON” whenever I see a .json file
I always call them JASON too
.json derulo
I have a .json with Jason vorhes in it
Wait a second, does that mean i am not the only one too?
I call it JaSON too.
I love it when people do this! Saying "screw you big companies, I'm going to keep playing your game!" and playing a dead game is one of my favorite thing to do. I am still trying to revive the _Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles_ game, which I haven't been able to do yet because I need the cache data.
@@jakedoesyoutube I actually have it on my tablet from YEARS back, it still works
@@crownefarious8436is there any chance you would be able to put the cache data on internet archive by hacking your device
@@crownefarious8436 can you make the cache data public somewhere? I am so close to getting the game working.
I still wanna play that Star Wars: Commander game again. It was like Star Wars Clash of Clans.
I really wish I could play Rayman adventures again ☹️
Him uploading everything to the internet archive so nobody has to go through all this again is such a boss move that rarely happens, thank you for this
My mom and I used to be obsessed with this game. I actually still have it on my iPad, it still works and I have Gary unlocked. He, along with every other character, wants these birthday cake items from the birthday blowout event… which are literally impossible to make now, lol. My mom says it still works on her phone, but some of the graphics, (such as most of the buildings.) are corrupted and show up as a weird garbled mess of graphics.
This was a fantastic video, really hoping it gets more traction, great work man.
nice, it just broke for me. it said “needs to update” when I was updating the app it just stopped
@@DaNoob1485 dude! You should really try to get the files off your device, maybe then we can get a complete game! And I wish you luck if you do try!
i still have the game from my purchased apps but besides the graphics being corrupted it still works
Try to get the files from there!@@GummyBoi
get the files off the device for us!!!!!!!!!
I think the fact that you explicitly remember so much about small details and exact operations of the game making this entire video possible is pretty damn wild lol
All of the savedata being in a .json is. Fucking insane
@@everybodylmao I believe even plants vs zombies 2 does this.
And that's how I didn't spend a single cent lmao
@@JoshNotJohn0 same lol. It's nice having all the unavailable or money plants
absolute lunatic behavior
average mobile game lol
@@JoshNotJohn0 They atleast made a bit of effort so you have to use a converter, but basically yes.
I used to love playing this game as a kid, but MAN, was it so broken and unpolished. This game really deserved more love and support.
ah yes back when facebook had 100s of sims type games for everything like cars and dragons and the simpsons and i guess spongeboi
i remember the simpsons one lol
@@Jethcon ah yes Tapped out, i also played a Family Guy one called The Quest For Stuff
there was also a toy story one on the console if I remember correctly lol
Y'all remember Empires and Allies?
Still pissed that I never got to play Pocket God Facebook as a kid, and now it's pretty much lost media that doesn't have a search demand
I WANT TO PLAY POCKET GOD FACEBOOK SO BADLY
I still remember watching the ads for this game that’d air inbetween commercial breaks, it really was just a kid friendly version of Simpsons Tapped Out! with maybe a little bit of The Quest for Stuff from Family Guy
I read this whole comment in a lapis voice in my mind because of your profile lol
one of the best 40 minutes i've wasted watching content about a game i've never played in my life. Presentation is really nice
I'm glad to see someone not only take the time to talk about this quirky little bit of Spongebob history (one myself I enjoyed when it existed), but also fully archive it as best they can for people to still play and get a close look into at least some of the inner workings of the app.
Amazing video, absolutely criminal this hasn't even broken 10k views yes. Hope that changes!
It's at 16k views now so it seems like the algorithm really stepped up its game
35k views now
"Your not getting the game." "But I want the game I want SpongeBob"
A few quotes from a certain video referencing this game that caused someone to end up on the news!
@CocoGames_0 That's from the SML Short Jeffy's Tantrum. Which was the ONE that got the channel not only age restricted, but also on Good Morning America because of some stupid kid! God I feel bad for the SML crew, they got put on the news over some stupid kid that shouldn't have been watching the videos in the first place...
As someone who participated in the Fry Cook Games event, I believe the Colosseum was either directly given at some point (like a community prize or smth) or just plopped right in the land expansion with the Health Store at the beginning. I don't remember being able to move or store it, though.
i played simpsons tapped out a long time ago and then stopped for a few years and then i tried logging on again and my entire city was gone...
Ohhhh that sucks! I should download it and see if mine still exists. I play once a year get bored uninstall and repeat lol.
same. i used to have friends that paid to get everything.
same i had an event building and i was gutted
same and i payed for a special character as well on that game
My town is still there, after I started the game after around 10 years. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said to my Family Guy town. My tapped out game save was connected to EA's cloud system, unlike the Family Guy one.
The virgin SpongeBob: Adventures In A Jam.
The Chad SpongeBob Moves In
if only you could still play moves in
What about the card game one? The card game one was and still is pretty cool.
@jrperry1611 that one is still available but costs money. And I bought it
@@jrperry1611 I’ve tried it and the mobile version is a hot mess. On a certain mission. You are physically unable to progress, I think it’s the sandy mini game were you have to throw stuff at the tickler or whatever, but he just ducks under everything and you can’t win. It’s not just a me thing either, I’ve seen the reviews and people are stating the same issue. I think the pc version is functional though, I’m just pissed I wasted money on a game that is impossible to beat.
Good video man i like when you reanimated spongebobs corpse
Got very engrossed in this video only to find out it had 700 views. Definitely deserves more
You'll be happy to know that in a mere 22 hours, it now has 26k views!
And the next day, the views doubled!
Here's to them quadrupling tomorrow!
Now it has 69k. Nice
93k now
100k+ views.
I didn’t even realize the game shut down! I remember seeing so many ads for it when watching Spongebob. This was definitely a trip down memory lane.
Games based on licensed IPs should allow offline play even if servers shut down and reinstall from the app library if delisted from digital storefronts. I have a few games that I can still download and play that were delisted (Ski Safari: Adventure Time), but this is probably the first time a game that you would have to pay, be almost remotely useless or broken (mobile game-wise).
Yeah, this happens quite a bit with Triple A games. But for a mobile game you plopped down money for and are expected to KEEP plopping down money for to buy things..... yeah, it's pretty egregious.
Oh man, this gave me so much nostalgia. I remember playing this game everyday trying to satisfy everyone and expanding my city.
If this never happened, it would've became forever lost media, but thanks to you, we will remember this game. 😊
I remember this game! I feel sorry that the algorithm didn't work on you, this deserves way more views!
edit: woah the view count has accelerated!
dude its been 2 days
I just found this in my recommended so algoritm is doing something right
@@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121 same here
you have to wait for people to actually find the video XD
Algorithm check ✅
Was just kinda expecting a retrospective on the game (i played it a ton growing up) but honestly this was really engaging and fun, nice work, hopefully this video pops off.
I mean he’s got to find a way to simplify it to a downloadable, I’d kill to play the game again…
stop scam
stop
i was so pissed when they took this offline. all my years of grinding patties at the krab. gone. i had all of the main characters. they're gone too. i put so many hours into this game just to have it ripped away from me. on judgment day, when god convenes with his clergy of sinners, saints, angels, and demons, viacom shall pay for condemning me to this shakespearean tragedy.
wait i remember watching ads of this game on tv so many times as a kid
That's funny, what country are you from if you don't mind me asking because I only remember seeing it advertised like twice, I'm wondering if they pushed it more in different places. Not that it matters at all but really I suppose none of this does.
@@AubreyHolmes im from the u.s.,,
Interesting. I guess they just promoted it a lot more over there than they did in the UK. 🤷♂️
I'm from Jamaica but had US cable. I vividly remember seeing commercials for this game and begging my mom to buy it but she wouldn't let me @@AubreyHolmes
im also from the us and i remember seeing ads on tv for it a lot
I have so much nostalgia for this game, I died of nostalgia when I saw the opening cutscene. My little child heart was destroyed after I saw that it was closing down. I remember exactly where I was when it happened (I was in the car having my tablet out near a motel)
I absolutely adore the editing here, not too overbearing or too "brainrotty", but also has some great jokes.
21:35 this is true up to a point. while the sonic racer decomp video by mattkc goes into more detail about unity decomps, the gist of it is that unity added a feature to the engine in version 5 called il2cpp (intermediate language to cpp). this basically turns the jit bytecode into true machine code by doing exactly what it says on the tin - converting it to c++ before compiling.
this makes reverse engineering a lot harder, but could theoretically decrease file size and improve performance since it's running native code, not a just in time compiler
I remember this game warmly, due to a recent 2017 Halloween update, I had an ungodly amount of Smitty Warbenmanjenson’s corpse lying around.
I remember I stopped playing this game as a child only because it randomly reset my progress. Good times
I remember having this game on iOS. Unfortunately i didn’t go too far into it before it closed. Because i first had it in 2018. But i didn’t know it was THAT old. Neither is it being “lost” cuz i downloaded it in 2018 anyway, and i could go through my old purchases and redownload it, and speaking of redownloading, i already did.
I played this on an old Amazon fire tablet so much years ago as a child! This video gave me nostalgia, and it brought back so much memories!
It’s a good thing I still have SpongeBob moves in. I’ll make gameplay videos of it soon.
I had forgotten about this game's existing but the moment I saw the title I knew exactly what it was, very fascinating video! The fact this only have 1k views is a crime, the video is very well put together and interesting. Had no idea the game received official support for nearly 10 years...
I remember when it closed, how sad. At least Spongebob Adventures in a Jam, while being worse, kind of fill it's place in my heart
The sounds of this game's commercial still rings in my ears...
There’s a SpongeBob game in the mid 2010s that i lost, it’s a game where you played as sponge bob serving kraby patty and you need to click on the costumer to serve them than SpongeBob would walk to serve them, than they would leave dirty plates on the tables than we have to click it than SpongeBob would walk there and pick it (I remember you could stack it too not sure though).
I think you're talking about Spongebob Dinner Dash.
@@thequeen321 that’s still a thing
this game was a core memory for me. i remember playing it, god, ten years ago? it was on a hand-me-down phone and i remember having fun with it until one day, i got my first "real" smartphone, (i.e. with cellular service) and i forgot it existed. to hear that it's just gone was a little upsetting, glad to see what you've done here.
Scott Cramer jumpscare
I remember this game, glad this came into my recommended, I’m liking it :) subbing
I remember getting ads of this game on TV! I never downloaded it as I never had my own phone myself but it's nostalgic seeing that AD
I never knew the game left the app store, but I totally remember it, along with Smurfs Village and the Ice Age game.
I played the hell out of this game growing up and I remember when the game shut down I tried getting it back up and running with the OBBs and such but to no prevail. Amazing video, can't wait for the next one!
This is sad. I thought it was still running
I honestly didn’t pay attention to the first part of the video bc I thought it was a real ad and I had to go back and rewatch it once I realized
I remember this was the first phone game I bought and I begged so much to get it (we were poor 💀) only for the game to take FOREVER to launch. thank you for reviving these memories.
This is awesome! There are many games that have been removed that I wished I could get back up working. This scratches the itch a little, and I'm just impressive you got it working. Great stuff!
I used to be obsessed with this game.....
So thanks for covering it! :D
as a hobbyist gamedev in my free time, love watching stuff like this, it shows me what not to do to players (like taking a game that has an offline mode and killing it entirely just because we're taking down the servers)
I REMEMBER PATRICK BEING A LEVEL 30 SOMETHING UNLOCK I WAS SO UPSET CUS I WANTED TO HAVE THEM BOTH TOGETHER AND MAKE BIKINI BOTTOM LOOK LIKE IT DOES ON TV
Thank you so much for jogging my memory about playing this game! I remember playing this game because I couldn't find my favorite Town Builder game anymore!
Speaking of which, this game having a fully offline mode remind me of my favorite Town Builder game that had an official conversion by the company who made it to be entirely offline and playable without internet. This basically means that you can download the app and still be able to play it to this day, just with all the social features ripped out. I don't remember when the game still had service if there was an option to switch the servers off or not put in general , as for the general video it was so cool to see you go in depth on all this tech stuff, it was really cool that you still got the game working all these years later! Thank you so much for all of your hard work and thank the Developers for not hiding their code super discreetly and slapping it into an easily accessible json.
In part 5, you mention the game acting weird now, and that's because the servers still hosting any data at all (aka the shutdown message) has itself been shut down, and the game hangs as it trys to get any server connection, eventually failling over to the offline mode.
I was starting to think this was what's happened as well, but the Android version at the very least is still able to kill itself sometimes.
@@AubreyHolmes Out of curiosity, would someone be able to feasibly edit out all of the game’s ability for telemetry that causes the server to get pinged or would that fundamentally break the whole thing?
Whenever I've tried to touch anything other than game.json even the slightest bit the game has just hung at the splash screen but a couple of people who know more about this kind of thing than me have said it's almost definitely doable, so I'll have a look into it.
@@AubreyHolmes Alrighty
At 34:38 , I think the reason why the amount of food you can have is 32767 is that is the highest number you can display in the 16-bit integer binary code.
If the game can be decompiled in unity, I wonder if it’s possible for someone to get the decompile to actually work
It very likely is, I just sure as heck aren't that someone unfortunately
@@AubreyHolmesyeah hopefully someone sets up a revival project for SponeBob Moves In, similar to the sonic runners revival project
Finding in this video that David Mitchell was in one of those "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" commercials as a PC just makes me wanna buy a PC over a Mac. DM is a treasure.
I remember seeing ads for this game as a kid! For some reason I never ask my parents to download it even though I want it. Wished I did lol. Great video btw, love watching the old SpongeBob gameplay lol.
Reminds me a lot of my personal experiences messing with ios file directories of my favorite games back in the day. Your archival efforts don't go unnoticed! Thank you!
Half the time this man speaks like Sherlock or the Doctor and I can barely understand anything he's saying yet I process it all at the same time.
Honestly im so happy the algorithm showed me your channel you deserve more subs
Great video btw
i vaguely remember this game existing as a kid but my parents didnt believe in spending money on the app stores so i never played it. im immediately loading it onto my phone as im typing this comment. great video, agree with all the other comments saying this deserves to have way more views than it does. hope this blows up, you deserve as much
This used to be one of my favorite games! I cant believe I forgot about it. This was really a blast from the past.
bro, this game and simpsons tapped out were the shit back then. i will always remember these games. it was so sad to hear this game got completely wiped from existence.
Still amazes me how Tapped Out still has updates to this day but it also sucks I can't access my account anymore because they require a code to be sent to your Email and the Email I used doesn't exist anymore
How convenient, i was actually just thinking about this game and was sad that it was removed
this video proves that you can do stuff without knowing how it works.
Commenting to help the video do better in the algorithm - this deserves a million views. Absolutely goated video.
rare yt good recommendation pull to listen to while i clean
I just watched that Minecraft Apple TV video! Trollstore is the best! Great video subbed :D
Absolute legend! I remember this game i always used to play it, though i never got far, but it was just completely erased from my memory, love the video and all the work mate, you deserve way more views! Subbed!
bro unlocked a memory i forgot i had
As someone who used to play this game, I'm most suprised by the fact it took so long to get Gary in the game.
Your editing style scratches my brain so nice
Mine too. I love the whole "Jason!" thing
ultimatespongebobfan101 mentioned + peak game mentioned
also very good video!
also back in the day, you were required to have wifi on iOS, it was agonizingly slow too :)
Thanks - I'm glad it wasn't just me being impatient as an 8-year-old that I'm remembering and it really was that slow back in the day!
@@AubreyHolmesIt was definitely better back in the day; I used to change date and time to get infinite coins and food
underrated channel, wish the algorithm would promote this more and hey, thanks to it i got here so good going on that end.
16:25 and yes i instantly thought of this albeit I knew this game had to be Unity based so you'd need a bit more work to get the assets out, good thing you did
Oh, I remember that game! I especially remember when SML did a video where Jeffy asked Mario to buy him this game which lead to the episode ending up on the news cause a kid almost hanged himself after watching it.
There is NO WAY this video only has 3 thousand views, this video was genuinely so entertaining
Love this, didn’t know it was taken down, I have redownloaded it twice in the past couple years. Need one of these for minions paradise and SpongeBob marbles and slides now tho
Anyone with any experience in any amount of coding is dying trying to watch this
Don't worry I'm well aware of the pain I'm inflicting on those people
This inspired me to look up how to get apk’a off a kindle fire and it’s not as hard as I was afraid. So now I can archive my childhood favorite games
Thanks for sharing! It came out around same time as Simpsons mobile tap game with similar play structure. And I think ultimately they all came as a result of games like Age of Empires and FarmVille. lol
34:38 32767 is the maximum signed 16-bit integer. It's probably capped there since it takes way less bytes to store and is probably very hard to reach by normal means.
Fun fact: this game was in "sml short: jeffy's tantrum" (the video that made a kid tie a noose around his neck)
how stupid was that kid
@@Happy_Koopa_boi that is a sentence
I remember playing this game when I was in elementary school!
There was a glitch with the tutorial that didn't let me click on anything 😔
Bro you are super underrated, thank you for this amazing 40 minutes of my time.
19:49 to 19:59 this transition got me so hard. i laughed audibly and loudly.
Jeffy finally is going to not ask for his dad’s credit card when he sees this.
@@BKBLUEY it was only $2.99 why couldn't Mario just buy the game smh
@@Garrett367 Because he bought him another game.
Oh! wasn't that the episode where he turned emo? It's been awhile since I've seen it lol
Great video man! I enjoyed this a lot, I liked the peep show edits. What a great show fr
i was 9 and accidentally charged my parents card $200 playing this game, it was a huge situation lmao
omg that literally happened to me with subway surfers
There’s this mobile game I used to play as a kid called Aqua Pets. There are a few ads left on TH-cam and someone has uploaded the background music. Other than an old website, some old ads and some screenshots I can’t find much on it. There are a few sketchy downloads online but they scare me. You played as a little yellow dot character and you used coins and pearls for upgrades to get better fish. I miss it so much, I tried to get my boyfriend to revive it but he wasn’t able :(((
Now all that’s left is to setup a Private Server for the game!
I bet that would be easy for android iOS would be another story tho
Seeing Bearman just randomly get mentioned after just discovering his channel and this channel is insane
Holy mackerel so cool, I should probably check in to see if Skylanders Lost Island is alive
Yeah, I remembered this game.
I just noticed how weird Spongebob was literally squared out in his design here…
Genuinely shocked you have such a low subscriber and view count for this otherwise very impressive video!
Digital necromancy just isn't as appreciated as it should be, I suppose
I remember this game, I used to have it and I loved it! Admittedly, it was essentially The Simpsons: Tapped Out with SpongeBob, but I used to like that game and I liked this one too when I still had it. Good times, good times
Would it be possible to pull this sort of necromancy with Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow as well?
I’ve never played SpongeBob Moves In due to not being able to pay for it, but I remember seeing commercials for it all the time back in 2013. Ahhh the good old days
I REMEMBER THIS
This video makes me so happy. I played this game so much when I was a kid and I did the same thing (minus the infinite money) and was devastated to see it shut down
This video right here made me realize...... Wait this was taken off google play and app store? (Actually all the apps were removed, I just checked soooo RIP Nickelodeon Apps 2010s - 2024? Idk)
2010s - 2021
@@P6057Wait 2021? I could have sworn i saw the apps back in 2023 and even early 2024
The Max0r MGRR clip being replaced by "MattKC" last minute genuinely got to me 💀💀💀