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Oh nice! There were 2 games I loved playing on my iPod Nano I would love to try again

-Spore, basically the first phase of PC Spore game, was still fun though.

-This one game which was like guitar hero, but used the clickwheel and would automatically generate tracks from your songs.

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Do you remember if it was named Musika? [1] If so, that game has actually been decrypted so I could work on a recomp. There's also Phase [2] which seems like the more likely pick. Unfortunately, it was never decrypted. I modeled out the Metadata db structure that the iPod OS exposed to games that represented its iTunesDB so I should be able to support custom songs/albums in a recomp in the future. Long term, I'd love to be able to BYO API key for Spotify and expose your Spotify library to the game as your "iPod's" music. I feel like that would modernize the experience. I'll get there when work calms down and I'm no longer working 60 hour work weeks :(

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuF_i7N2M4

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9scEk1_lQXc

Yep, it would be Phase. Anyways thanks again for all your hard work, it brings me some good nostalgia since my iPod is long gone now.

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