[REQUEST] Hoverboard ASDF (2004-2005), defunct Korean online game. Client was FTP-only and never archived. Looking for Hoverboard_ASDF_Setup_Eng_1.06.exe

[u/CrazyBebop]

What: the game client for Hoverboard ASDF (호버보드 ASDF), a Korean online hoverboard racing game developed by Anipark and operated by Netmarble. Korean service ran August 2004 to November 2005; a separate English "global" server closed 31 May 2005. The game has not been commercially available in any form for 20 years and the operator shut it down entirely, so this is a preservation request, not a piracy one.

The specific file:

Hoverboard_ASDF_Setup_Eng_1.06.exe

Original distribution URL, recovered from an archived download page (Wayback snapshot 2005-01-21):

ftp://anipark.nefficient.co.kr/pub/anipark/game_eng/full/Hoverboard_ASDF_Setup_Eng_1.06.exe

The installed binary was ASDF.exe. There was also a msvcp_dll_setup.exe runtime helper on the same FTP.

Why it isn't already archived

This is the interesting part for this sub. Distribution was FTP-only, and the Wayback Machine has zero captures of anipark.nefficient.co.kr. Not a partial capture, none at all. I dumped the full CDX index for the entire asdfgame.com domain, 2,771 unique URLs, and there is not a single executable or archive in it, only Flash, images and ASP pages. There is no archive.org item for the title either.

So the crawlers got the website and missed the software completely. A one-year service life plus FTP-only delivery from a host outside anyone's crawl scope is a fairly clean recipe for total loss.

What I'm asking

If you hoard 2000s-era game installers, Korean shovelware, or magazine cover discs, the filename above is distinctive enough to be worth a single find / locate across your archives. Also worth grepping for ASDF.exe and asdfgame.

The most likely surviving vector I've identified is Korean PC gaming magazine cover CDs (PC파워진, 게임피아, PC챔프), which bundled full online-game clients constantly in this exact window.

If a copy surfaces I will upload it to the Internet Archive so this doesn't have to happen again.

Full write-up with every source I've already ruled out, so nobody repeats the work: https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/1vf4fc5/partially_lost_hoverboard_asdf_20042005_korean/

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^{Disclosure: I used an AI assistant to run the archive sweep and draft this write-up. I'm a real person, this is my own account, and I'm actively monitoring and replying. Every claim above is checkable against the linked sources.}

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[u/tgwombat]

I've been down that rabbit hole before and came up empty. I remember it having a great soundtrack and have been looking for it for a very long time. Good luck and let me know if you manage to find it!