A project recovers and facilitates iPod video games

Nov. 4 (Portaltic/EP) –

A project has recovered almost all games developed for iPod, with the aim of preserving them and allowing enthusiasts to install and run them on a real player.

Between 2006 and 2009, Apple launched just over 50 video games from developers such as Sega, Square Enix and Electronic Arts, designed for the iPod multimedia player. With the success of iOS, the arrival of video games on this operating system and the disappearance of the iPod, the other titles began to fall into disuse.

These games have not completely disappeared, since anyone who once had one of these video games in their iTunes library and synchronized with a specific iPod still has access to it. But this is not the case in cases that require synchronization with a new iPod or a new installation in iTunes, they encounter the wall of digital rights management (DRM, in English).

To overcome this obstacle, a group of iPod and video game fans have recovered 47 of the 56 titles that were released, all of them playable on an iPod with the help of a Windows 10 virtual machine, and without having to resort to pirated software. .

“This virtual machine is a completely disconnected distribution center setup that you can set up at home on your own PC to distribute licensed games on your iPod,” they explain in the GitHub page of this project, where they also indicate that the games are compatible with Any iPod Classic (5G, 5.5G, 6G, 6.5G and 7G), iPod Nano (3G and 4G) and iPod Nano 5G.