Overview

• The final missing title, Real Soccer 2009, was recovered on September 8, completing the Clickwheel Games Preservation Project.
• The team used a single “master library” inside a virtual machine by syncing verified buyer accounts to work around Apple’s DRM.
• Project lead and GitHub user Olsro enlisted multiple collectors early, including a YouTuber who had maintained 39 games.
• The preserved files are posted online for owners of compatible iPods, with setup relying on a 2018 iTunes build inside a virtual machine.
• Apple sold 54 clickwheel games in the late 2000s before removing them from the iTunes Store in 2011, which left them effectively inaccessible until now.