"The most dedicated fans researching the game were college students "Emily" and "Super Gamer Omega Clank." The latter posted on Reddit four years ago that they found someone with the game on a Sony Ericsson W880i. It was encrypted, though, and as little as a few weeks ago, they said that their quest to extract it from that device was proving to be "hopeless.""
"Then, a breakthrough. The team managed to safely crack the phone's encryption, extract Clone Home and archive it for anyone to download. Miraculously, it's complete and fully playable, if a bit unpolished. Golden Bolt now believes that the game was actually developed not by Handheld Games but a company called JavaGround, which made Sony's last few Java (J2ME) games. It may have been uploaded by accident to mobile networks like Cingular or Sprint for a brief period,"
A dedicated team recovered and archived a fully playable build of the canceled Java mobile game Ratchet & Clank: Clone Home. The game was long believed to be finished and was originally slated for a 2006 release on Java phones but was quietly canceled prior to launch. Attribution shifted from Handheld Games to JavaGround based on new evidence; JavaGround had produced Sony's last Java titles. Researchers found an encrypted copy on a Sony Ericsson W880i, cracked the phone's encryption, extracted the ROM, and archived the complete but slightly unpolished game for public download.
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