All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
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Summary
A community project to preserve Apple’s downloadable clickwheel games, which were available in the late 2000s, has completed its goal of making all 54 titles easily accessible.
Real Soccer 2009 was the last game to be added to the iPod Clickwheel Games Preservation Project, which aims to make the games available in an easily accessible format.
The project, which was launched in October last year, saw YouTube creator @thatnostalgicnerd contribute 39 of the games after repurchasing upgraded versions.
The initiative’s creator, GitHub user Olsro, said the last game was especially hard to find, but he finally managed to get access to it after months of searching.
The group managed to get round Apple’s FairPlay DRM by using a coordinated Virtual Machine to sync a master library to a single iTunes installation, which could then provide playable copies of the games to any number of iPods in perpetuity.
