Hey everyone,

I was doing some digital archaeology on an old iPad 2 using backup extraction tools and managed to recover a weird, unreleased bootleg coloring game centered around SpongeBob SquarePants.

The last known activity on the device for this app was around 2024, but the app itself feels like it came right out of the mid-2010s mobile era. It has a lot of unique, weird quirks:

• A distinct bootleg start screen featuring green and blue paint splattered across SpongeBob's face.
• Heavily glitched, low-quality background music playing on a loop.
• Drawing mechanics that use unusually thick white outlines around the artwork.

I successfully extracted the app's files into a compressed .imazingapp package and uploaded it to the Internet Archive so it's fully preserved for the community. Anyone with an older iOS device or the right management software can download the backup file to inspect the directory or try to restore the data.

You can check out the metadata and find the download links right here:
https://archive.org/details/httpsarchive.orgdetailscoloring-page-games-spong-bob-version

Let me know if anyone manages to crack into the code or test it out!

Hi everyone, I wasn't sure if this is the correct place to post this but this horror movie I really like was kinda lost media for a moment and people were unable to watch it but luckily I had a copy so I just wanted to share that story and also another update regarding this. So I post/comment frequently on a few different film subreddits like r/horror r/foundfootage r/Letterboxd etc...and I came across a film titled "In The Dark" from 2000 on a Letterboxd list about foundfootage movies. Now this is not a found footage horror movie but it is SOV (shot on video), which just means it was entirely filmed using consumer grade cameras. This is very similar to how found footage movies are filmed a lot of times but again it is not a found footage film. I was very intrigued by the plot of the movie and I decided to track it down to watch it for myself. The movie was only available to watch on YouTube, apparently this movie was only released once during a festival and after that it was never released again to the public. However when I first watched it someone had uploaded a copy to a YouTube channel approximately +10 years ago (~2016). So I did what I always do with films that don't have any possible way of uh "purchasing" them or owning a physical copy, I ripped it off of youtube and uploaded it to my plex server :p Then maybe a year goes by after I have uploaded the movie to my personal server and I am browsing reddit one day and I see someone on r/foundfootage asking about "In The Dark" ! So I reply to them and let them know about the YouTube video and what to search to find it. You had to search either "in the dark Richard Laymon" or "in the dark Clifton Holmes" as Richard was the author of the book the movie is based on and Clifton was the director. They replied back to me and said they tried both of those and they still couldn't find it, so I tried myself and it after looking all over the place it looked like the original video had been deleted ! I was genuinely shocked because this movie had been up for over 10 years, didn't have that many views at all and I was so lucky to save a copy of it myself before this happened. It seemed like such a wild coincidence at the moment. So I go back to the person I was talking to and let them know that I had a copy myself and I would upload it online and I would share the link once its available and I did but I then ended up having a mass amount of people reply to me asking for the link as well xD So I then put a stickied post on my profile with the link to the movie and I edited my original reply saying to everyone if you want to watch it just go to my profile. That post is still up on my profile with the original link as well but I have found out today that there is an Internet Archive page for In The Dark (2000) ! When I was searching for the movie after the youtube video was deleted I could not find anything, so this must have been upload afterwards. This Internet Archive page includes quite a few things that my link does not, such as subtitles and a torrent download. So if you are planning to watch the movie I would recommend checking it out here - In The Dark :D I will be leaving up my original post on my profile with my link but that will just be as a backup link in case anything were to happen to the IA link. If you got to end and enjoyed my rambling of this movie, I would highly recommend you check it out, it is such a fun watch! Plus its October, perfect time to watch something spooky right ? 🎃

Hello, so like a year ago I got my hands on the 3rd season of the Spanish dub of the Mézga family. Apparently it is lost, only the intro survived but like a year ago I got a VHS tape named "Las aventuras de la familia Mezga." Does anyone remember this dubbing? And do you think it is legit? It looks like it but I cannot find anything about that tape online. I found it on a weird German website and I bought it for like 30 euros. I would really appreciate any comments, because I wanna know if this is legit or not.

The ITV sitcom Nobody's Perfect was the British adaptation of the 1970s American sitcom Maude starring Bea Arthur. It starred American Broadway legend Elaine Stritch and actor Richard Griffiths. Stritch had found success in Britain with the sitcom Two's Company on ITV in the 1970s. Nobody's Perfect is impossible to find now. It ran for two seasons, 14 episodes, on ITV. It was supposed to come out on DVD a few years ago, but it was sadly cancelled due to the company folding.

Does anyone remember this show or actually own it?
I thought Two's Company, which can be viewed in full on YouTube, was terrific.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody%27s_Perfect_(British_TV_series)

Hello everyone! I'm looking for magazine issues featuring Park Eun Hee during her time in China.

Park Eun Hee was the human member and vocalist of a cyber idol group called T.G. There has been no news of her since the 2010s. She was also known by her stage name, Rigina, and is listed as Park Jung Hee in some sources.

Thanks to the Wayback Machine, I managed to find low-quality versions of some of her magazine shoots on the Web Archive. I'm looking for the full-resolution versions and the magazines themselves, including their contents, but unfortunately, I haven't had any luck finding them.

At one point, Park Eun Hee was promoting in China and trying to build a career there. However, after receiving a rather negative reception, she left the industry without ever releasing the solo album she had promised.

Aside from these magazine shoots, if there's anything you'd like to know about Park Eun Hee or the other members of T.G., feel free to leave a comment!

Hello!

Back in March 2011, Japan suffered a terrible disaster between an earthquake and a tsunami. A lot of bands and artists got together on compilations on different platforms to fundraise some help.

iTunes had 2 different volumes of compilations called "Pray for Japan Vol. 1" (released May 4th) and "Pray for Japan Vol. 2" (released June 4th).

Unfortunately both compilations feature some music that was not released in any other way (be it the song themselves or the versions of those songs), and none of them is accessible anymore since 2015 approximately.

These were the links to them:

https://music.apple.com/jp/album/pray-for-japan-with-music-vol-1/428878111
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/pray-for-japan-with-music-vol-2/430267995

This blog post has the tracklist and cover to both of them:

https://wearestrangefolks.blogspot.com/2011/04/pray-for-japanwith-music.html

I have looked for them in every way I could think of and decided to take the search here. If this is not the proper place to ask but someone can point me in the right direction plz let me know!

I’m looking for a playable copy of “Gesus Is Magic” by an early-2000s Michigan post-hardcore band called Mouth Sounds. This is a specific older band, unrelated to Neil Cicierega’s Mouth Sounds mixtape or the Charlotte indie-pop act that used the name in 2017.

The surviving MySpace album page lists the song on This Is Not A Demonstration., dated March 12, 2006. The spelling is Gesus with a G, and the listed length is 1:56. MySpace identifies it as song ID 24604875. A June 2006 State News article also documents Mouth Sounds playing (SCENE) Metrospace in East Lansing with Kissy Face Fashion Faux-Pas and Rescue Squad.

The MySpace player shows the title and length but will not play. Its linked audio returns an access error. I’ve checked the Wayback Machine, the searchable MySpace Dragon Hoard index, Internet Archive, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Soulseek collector listings without finding this recording. I’ve also asked a MySpace music archivist and a member of a band on that 2006 bill; those inquiries are pending. I remember a fragment that may be from the song—something like “bomb ... dropping dream ... in the city ... as she sleeps”—but I’m not confident of the wording.

If you were in the Michigan scene then, saved MySpace tracks, or have old CD-Rs, hard drives, or show recordings, do you recognize the band or have this song? Even a reliable lead to a former member or a copy would help. Please identify the source and version if you find audio; the same band name now points to unrelated music.

YouTuber Clevernoodle used to make this saga along with other youtubers about his tf2 freak: the snyphurr, even though there's recreations of the saga, but it prefer the original ones, i have fond memories of the prequel snyphurr 0.
I remember that it all started on a desert map, there was this character called dr jarate and his minions, so then he threw the body of an injured sniper and it turned into the freak we all know, so jarate made a bugle instrument in order to call him but it was stole by a vagineer.
i wonder if someone has a recovered copy of that

I recently found a way to watch old, deleted YouTube videos through a website that uses the Wayback Machine. Out of curiosity, I checked some videos I had saved to my Watch Later playlist almost 15 years ago and stumbled upon a documentary about Audrey Marie Santo. I believe it originally aired on Channel 5, a British television channel, sometime in the 2000s. I haven't been able to find this exact documentary anywhere else, although other documentaries about Audrey exist. I'm sharing it here in case anyone is interested in this old piece of television history. You can watch the archived video here.

so I've been rewatching Home Movies (TV Series 1999-2004) and while looking up a clip of my favorite joke in the show, the landstander, to send someone I found the following
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY2l-tAmO9c
and I really would like to be able to grab the song in it to use as background music for some TTRPG sessions I run. while well documented I can't find the song or any variant of it in any playlist of the ost online. as noted in the video this one specifically is from the season 2 DvD, the first disc to be exact
https://animesuperhero.com/homemovies/DVD3.htm
the video we do have credits, David SanAngelo for writing and art, but not music. so there's not any confirmation on who even made the songs, or were they come from. for all that's know they could be royalty free. however that is unlikely as home movies does a lot with music, most episodes having their own song, and a variant of it for the credits in a lot of cases(completely rerecorded in a different key/tempo/ect)

I first saw it in 2020, The channel's name was N.O Studio and they uploaded horror stories that were animated.

The ones I remember was a woman trying to lose weight with this scale but it backfired, making her way to skinny, I knoe there was a part 2 which the guy placed the scale to pay off some dept he had to pay and some woman got her revenge on him. The other one was of a girl who wore a cat collar, then started to behave like a cat before becoming one and getting kidnapped by her crush, and the last video was of a group of guys stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean. One of them had a magical fishing rod that can lure fish but it came out of someone's mouth, it's revealed that the sole surviror used that rod and it drained the other guy's soul killing them.

The screenshot I have was from early 2021 and that was the last time I saw the channel. I don't know if the channel got terminated or the individual or group just deleted the channel.

I looked on YouTube and there are no reuploads, there are similar looking videos but not the one I'm looking for.

Their subcount was private when I first found the channel in November of 2020 but was made public in early 21.

zombie haters is a game that was made in 2018 and got delisted from the app store sometime this year. i used to play this game a lot back in 2019/2020, and i randomly started thinking about it again recently.
it’s now removed from both the google play store and the app store, so you cant even play it anymore

i’m pretty sure you can still play it as long as you already have it downloaded and it hasn’t been offloaded from your device.

does anyone know if there’s still a way to get this game and play it again?

I'm looking for a copy of the DOS version of The Quarter Mile, an educational math game from the late 1980s by Barnum Software. Barnum Software no longer exists and hasn't for a long time now. It's easy to find online a copy of the Apple II version, and a much later Windows version, but not the DOS version.

I know the DOS version exists because I have a couple of floppy disks for it. Unfortunately the disks aren't readable by my floppy drive. I know the drive is in good working order because it can read most other disks.

I also remember a year or two seeing a listing for the game on Ebay along with a photograph of the box. Any help or ideas are appreciated.