IT House on November 3rd. Although the golden age of iPod games is short, its influence cannot be underestimated.Recently, a group of enthusiastic iPod fans launched a protection plan called "iPod Clickwheel Games Preservice Project", which aims to protect these classic games from disappearing.
The project is inspired by a DRM vulnerability discovered by an iPod fan named QUIX.QUIX found that By backing iTunes on another computer, you can manually back up iPod games .He used this method to back up his 19 iPod Clickwheel games.
Subsequently, QUIX collaborated with another fan OLSRO on Discord to jointly create the iPod Clickwheel Games Preservice Project.OLSRO uses the QEMU simulator to develop a "community virtual machine" to allow users to synchronize the authorized CLICKWHEEL game to its iPod.
Through this virtual machine, users with iPod Clickwheel can upload game files to protect these games that cannot be downloaded from .Although the project is currently unable to run the game directly on the virtual machine, it provides a way to share and protect these games for users with Clickwheel iPod.
At present, the project team has collected 42 in 54 iPod Clickwheel games.These games were originally sold on iTunes Store at the price of $ 7.49 (IT House Remarks: Currently about 53.4 yuan), including works from well -known manufacturers such as EA, Sega, Square Enix.
Although Apple has stopped sales of these games in 2011, users still allow users to re -authorize existing games to their iPod.However, OLSRO warned that if Apple closes the re -authorized server, the entire protection project will face the risk of termination.
OLSRO of the project OLSRO called for more users to participate in the protection plan and work together to save all 54 games.
