Tomb Raider J2ME Collection

[UroshUchiha]

This is an archive/preservation project of the 2000s Tomb Raider J2ME (Java ME) games and their dedicated Eidos Interactive website pages www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/mobile/

The goal is to have the website pages and all their content for J2ME games ready to be viewed "out of the box". I personally use Flashpoint to browse through everything I have in this archive. But more on that later.

As for the games themselves, the goal is to collect as many clean versions of the games as possible in a single place.
These games came in jar/jad files and had variations between them based on what cellphone they were designed for.
The differences between them could be the in game version number, screen resolution, vibration toggle, in game sounds, main menu sounds, languages etc.

You can find these files floating around the Internet all over the place. But they are not all clean.
What do I mean by that? These .jar files can be modified and hacked. Certain "providers" of these changed the MANIFEST.MF file inside of the .jar so that the title/description/labels of the game have their online nickname or the URL to their website and such.
Some even change the game icons and logos or add their own custom files to the .jar.

I personally curated all of the files in my archive and cleaned everything I could find.
Every modified MANIFEST.MF has been restored to its original state.
Every manually added logo, icon and file has been removed and restored with the original.
If I missed something, do let me know and I will try to fix it.

You can see the date of modification of each file inside the .jar so these were easy to track down. Just required a bit of time to go through everything and hunt them all down all over the Internet.



[Tomb Raider The Osiris Codex]




Original website URL
Everything from the website has been preserved.

J2ME Games:

Tomb Raider The Osiris Codex v1.0.9 (176x208) [English] (Thanks Cez - LaraCroft.PL)
Tomb Raider The Osiris Codex v1.1.3 (128x128) [German] (Thanks Cez - LaraCroft.PL)
Tomb Raider The Osiris Codex v1.1.3 (176x208) [German]
Tomb Raider The Osiris Codex v1.1.8 (176x208) [Spanish] (Thanks Virtual Lara)
Currently the clean English version of the game has not been preserved.

[Tomb Raider Quest for Cinnabar]



Original website URL
Unknown if the trailer ever existed. Besides that, everything else has been preserved.

J2ME Games:

Tomb Raider Quest for Cinnabar v1.1.1 (176x208) [English] (Thanks Barry Matharoo)
Tomb Raider Quest for Cinnabar v1.1.2 (176x208) [English] (Thanks Cez - LaraCroft.PL)
Tomb Raider Quest for Cinnabar v1.1.5 (128x128) [English]
Tomb Raider Quest for Cinnabar v1.1.5 (128x128) [German]
Tomb Raider Quest for Cinnabar v1.1.5 (176x208) [Spanish]

[Tomb Raider Elixir Of Life]




Original website URL
Everything from the website has been preserved.

J2ME Games:

Tomb Raider Elixir Of Life v1.0.3 (176x208) [English]
Tomb Raider Elixir Of Life v1.0.4 (128x128) [English]
Tomb Raider Elixir Of Life v1.0.6 (176x208) [German]
Tomb Raider Elixir Of Life v1.0.8 (128x128) [German]
Tomb Raider Elixir Of Life v1.1.5 (176x208) [Italian] (Thanks Virtual Lara)

[Tomb Raider Legend]




Original website URL

Missing files:

http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/mobile/trl/ClearExternalPlaySeekMute_trl.swf
http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/mobile/trl/flash/TRL_mobile_white.flv

J2ME Games:

Tomb Raider Legend Tokyo v1.12.7 (for JSR184 - 240x320 screens) [English]
Tomb Raider Legend Tokyo v1.15.41 (Nokia 6280-6131) (240x320) [English]
Tomb Raider Legend Tokyo v1.16 (176x220) [English]
Tomb Raider Legend Tokyo v1.17 (Nokia N73) (240x320) [Italian] (Thanks Cez - LaraCroft.PL)
Tomb Raider Legend Tokyo v1.17.6 (NOGUNSOUND - Nokia 6280) [Spanish]
Tomb Raider Legend Tokyo v1.17.9 (Nokia 6233) [Spanish]

[Tomb Raider Anniversary]



Original website URL

Missing files:

http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/mobile/tra/images/screenshots.jpg
http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/mobile/tra/vidPlayer.swf
http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/mobile/tra/style.css
http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/mobile/tra/scripts/tools.js (Used http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/mobile/solarola/scripts/tools.js)

J2ME Games:

These are all multilanguage (English, French, Italian, German and Spanish)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.1 (128x128)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.1 (Nokia 6680) (176x208)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.1 (Nokia E61) (320x240)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.1 (Nokia N80) (352x416)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.1 (SE) (128x160)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.2 (SE) (128x128)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.2 (SE) (176x220)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.2 (SE) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.3 (Nokia 6600) (176x208)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.3 (Nokia s60v1 3650) (176x208)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.4 (Nokia 6280-6131) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.5 (N73) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.6 (s40v3) (208x208)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.2.8 (N95) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.3.1 (Nokia N91) (176x208)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v0.3.2 (s40v2) (128x128)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v1.0.0 (Nokia 6280) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Anniversary v1.0.0 (s40v2a) (128x160)

[Tomb Raider Puzzle Paradox]




Original website URL

Missing files:

http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/mobile/paradox/Halo_Skin_1.swf (Used https://github.com/lulu27753/sharee/blob/master/Halo_Skin_1.swf - http://www.harlancoben.com/video/Halo_Skin_1.swf)
http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/mobile/paradox/imgs/faded.jpg
http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/mobile/paradox/paradox.flv

J2ME Games:

These are all multilanguage (English, French, Italian, German and Spanish)
Tomb Raider Puzzle Paradox v0.4.1 (176x220)
Tomb Raider Puzzle Paradox v0.4.6 (s40v3a) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Puzzle Paradox v0.7.0 (132x176)
Tomb Raider Puzzle Paradox v0.7.6 (N-Gage) (176x208)

[Tomb Raider Underworld]



Couldn't find a website for TRU Mobile.

J2ME Games:

These are all multilanguage (English, French, Italian, German and Spanish)

2D
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.3.8 (s40v2) (128x128)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.3.8 (s60v2-N6600) (176x208)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.0 (Nokia 3250) (176x208)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.0 (s60v2-N6680) (176x208)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.0 (Samsung SGH-E250i) (128x160)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.0 (Samsung SGH-F480) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.0 (Sony Ericsson W810) (176x220)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.1 (Benqsie EL71) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.1 (Nokia N95) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.1 (s40v3a) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.1 (s40v5) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.2 (s40v3) (208x208)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.5 (s40v2a-N5200) (128x160)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.5 (s40v2a-N6101) (128x160)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.5 (s40v2a-N6151) (128x160)
Tomb Raider Underworld 2D v1.4.6 (Sony Ericsson K510) (128x160)

3D
Tomb Raider Underworld 3D v1.7.0 (Nokia N92) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Underworld 3D v1.7.0 (Nokia N95) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Underworld 3D v1.7.1 (Nokia N73) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Underworld 3D v1.7.1 (Nokia N80) (352x416)
Tomb Raider Underworld 3D v1.7.1 (Nokia N96) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Underworld 3D v1.7.1 (s60v2-N70) (176x208)
Tomb Raider Underworld 3D v1.7.2 (176x208)
Tomb Raider Underworld 3D v1.7.3 (Sony Ericsson K810) (240x320)
Tomb Raider Underworld 3D v1.8.8 (Nokia 5800) (360x640)

[Lara Croft's Poker Party]



Couldn't find a website for Lara Croft's Poker Party.

J2ME Games:

These are all multilanguage (English, French, Italian, German and Spanish)
Lara Croft's Poker Party v1.0.1 (132x176)

[Tomb Raider (Slots)]

Wiki

Couldn't find a website for Tomb Raider (Slots).

J2ME Games:

Tomb Raider Slots v01.01.03 (360x640)
Tomb Raider Slots v30.01 (176x220) (Thanks Cez - LaraCroft.PL)
Tomb Raider Slots v30.02 (s40v2) (128x128)
Tomb Raider Slots v30.02 (s40v2a) (128x160)
Tomb Raider Slots v30.02 (s40v3) (208x208)
Tomb Raider Slots v30.02 (s40v3a) (240x320)

Website
To view the website archive you can use Flashpoint Infinity.
1. Download and install Flashpoint Infinity
2. Open Flashpoint, click on "Config" and enable "Enable Editing"
3. A new tab next to "Config" will appear called "Curate". Click on it.
4. On the right side, click on "Load Archive" and load Tomb Raider J2ME Website.7z
5. "Tomb Raider J2ME Website" will appear on the left. Click it.
6. You'll now have an option to Run websites of your choice. Just click the Run button for each website you want to view.

Games
To play the games on your Android phone you can download J2ME Loader
To play the games on your PC you have several options:
1. KEmulator v1.0.3 (No longer maintained)
2. KEmulator v2.12.8 (nnmod) (Modded version of v1.0.3 that's maintained)
3. FreeJ2ME (A bit tricky to setup)
4. EKA2L1 (I only used EKA2L1 for Symbian games so far)
5. SquirrelJME (A project that aims for 100% accuracy, but it's not out yet)
6. Or you could use any PC Android emulator and install J2ME Loader on it

Downloads
Tomb Raider J2ME Website
Tomb Raider J2ME Games

Conclusion
If someone has the missing website files stored somewhere, or some versions of the games that I do not have in this bundle, I would greatly appreciate it if you could share them with me so that they too can be added to this archive.
If you want to contact me on Discord, my username there is uroshuchiha

Internet Archive for the J2ME Collection

[Chamayoo]

You already did an excellent work !
Thank you and I hope more clean versions will be found !

[Ellioft]

Hi I have found the english version of Osiris Codex if you want

[Mikky]

Holy cow, this is fantastic. I never expected anyone to ever be bothered about these games or even remember them. The amount of work and dedication shown here is really inspiring. Well done!

Believe it or not, but these mobile games were a huge part of my childhood and I have a lot of not-so-fond memories of trying to hunt down the files for these games, and even back then it was to difficult to find ones that were compatible with my phone. I remember specifically having to play the first game in a lower resolution, and it took me ages to find the 3rd game at all - when I eventually did play it, I was surprised it was set in a futuristic (?) castle of sorts

The Legend game was also really elusive to me and I was never able to find the complete version (the fact that there were so many versions was also really confusing). Anniversary was easy (and it's just a collection of the levels from the first 3 java games anyway), and I managed to find and play both the 2D and 3D versions of Underworld

Like I said, lots of memories 😅 On a side note, do you have any information at all of the "interactive TV" games? They were a trilogy of sorts on TV service boxes such as Sky (in the UK). They were also side scrollers. Maybe they have been already made playable and I just don't know. But I always imagined it must be nearly impossible to complile a downloadable collection of these as the format isn't exactly well-known. I wonder if it's at all possible, unless Eidos/Crystal Dynamics or Square or whoever actually have the games archived somewhere and would release them publicly - but even then, I imagine some work would have to be done on them to be playable on a modern computer. Either way, having those released and playable today would truly be another great archiving effort for the series

[Chamayoo]

Among all those games, I only did the 3D version of Underworld and I finished it. It was around 2011, I guess. My very first mobile phone I had was a Nokia (C3 ?) at the end of 2010 so I never played those games before that, which were already unavailable.

[UroshUchiha]

Originally Posted by Ellioft

Hi I have found the english version of Osiris Codex if you want

Sure, send it my way and I'll check. There is an English version of Osiris Codex out there.
Tomb Raider The Osiris Codex v1.1.3 (128x128)
But it's not clean. It's a modified German version of the game. A person named 'chris' (that's the name added manually in the MANIFEST.MF) added a translated file to that German .jar of the game. MANIFEST.MF was also changed to say that it was Created by: zyx instead of Sun Microsystems Inc.

Once installed it also doesn't have an icon cause it was removed.
And in game not everything is fully translated from what I have seen. Such as the Health bar. It says Gesundheit.

See attached images to see what I mean.

Originally Posted by Mikky

On a side note, do you have any information at all of the "interactive TV" games? They were a trilogy of sorts on TV service boxes such as Sky (in the UK). They were also side scrollers. Maybe they have been already made playable and I just don't know. But I always imagined it must be nearly impossible to complile a downloadable collection of these as the format isn't exactly well-known. I wonder if it's at all possible, unless Eidos/Crystal Dynamics or Square or whoever actually have the games archived somewhere and would release them publicly - but even then, I imagine some work would have to be done on them to be playable on a modern computer. Either way, having those released and playable today would truly be another great archiving effort for the series

Take a look at this thread for the information gathered on those https://www.tombraiderforums.com/sho...d.php?t=227983

Apocalypse series made by Minds Eye Productions is something we'll probably never get. Unless it leaks one day by some ex dev or something.
The Recoking series made by Denki might still get released as they are active to this day.
Last year they started porting their iTV catalogue to web.
These are the games they converted and made playable again so far
https://sky-gamestar.fandom.com/wiki...Gamestar_games

Sadly the Tomb Raider ones haven't been converted yet and they stopped updating that list a few months ago. Hopefully they'll continue some day.

This is their Twitter profile https://twitter.com/denkigames

[Ellioft]

Ah it's the one I have found...

[Cezar]

Wow, congratulations UroshUchiha, amazing job <3

I think I have somewhere clean English version of all 3 Java games, Osiris Codex too - I've played these 3 games on my old Nokia. I will search for them in free time.

Btw, please think about preserving also Relic Run - the version with the music. Is it possible?

[UroshUchiha]

Originally Posted by Ellioft

Ah it's the one I have found...

That's okay, thank you for checking. It's definitely a playable version of the game. The resolution is sadly only 128x128 and it doesn't have sounds such as jumping, falling, main menu etc. Even the shooting sound is odd.

But yeah, the point of this project is to only get things that are as clean as possible. That one isn't.


I just remembered that in my TR collection of physical media I have a German Premier Collection for TRL which claims to have Elixir Of Life as bonus content. So I loaded the disc but couldn't find it.

Then I translated the text on the manual and from what I gather it's not actually on the disc. You have to send an SMS to a specific number to get your download link. That service is long dead haha. I hoped the game would be on the disc, oh well.

[UroshUchiha]

Originally Posted by Cezar

Wow, congratulations UroshUchiha, amazing job <3

I think I have somewhere clean English version of all 3 Java games, Osiris Codex too - I've played these 3 games on my old Nokia. I will search for them in free time.

Btw, please think about preserving also Relic Run - the version with the music. Is it possible?

Double post cause I haven't seen this comment prior.
If you could share what you have for me to check and add to the project, that would be cool. Thank you!

As for Relic Run, oof, I got waaay too late into that game. Pretty much when it was already dead. Didn't have a phone that could run it for the longest time.

I only kept patch notes for all the versions I could find.

Version 1.0.18
Updated: April 13th, 2015

- Initial release, Netherlands only

Version 1.0.32
Updated: May 18st, 2015

- World wide release

Version 1.0.34
Updated: June 4th, 2015

- Performance improvements.

Version 1.0.39
Updated: July 1st, 2015

- Improved tutorial including wall run hints.
- Change to requirements for the Wardrobe achievement – only 4 outfits now needed.
- Game improvements.
- Bug fixes.


Version 1.0.46
Updated: August 6th, 2015

- Classic Lara outfit
- Head Start

Version 1.0.47
Updated: August 12th, 2015

- New FREE ‘Classic Lara Croft’ outfit.
- New ‘Head Start’ gear item – enabling Lara to speed through the first section of a run and get further into the action.


Version 1.0.55
Updated: August 25th, 2015


Version 1.0.59
Updated: September 7th, 2015

- New item! Double the number of coins you receive on a run with the aptly named Coin Doubler.
- Achievements now reward with Gems rather than coins
- Option to complete coin purchases with Gems
- Miscellaneous game improvements and bug fixes
- Keep hunting for those relics and remember, if you do something that has never been done you will collect treasures that have never been found.


Version 1.5.68
Updated: October 14th, 2015

- New location Mountain Pass featuring a new vehicle, enemies & boss!
- New weapon the incredible mini gun!
- New campaign map – now advance the Relic Run story by completing levels and objectives
- New Clue Saving feature carry your collected clues to the next run
- Improved tutorial


Version 1.6.77
Updated: November 4th, 2015

- Limber up and get ready for the latest Relic Run update.
- Included in this update:
- New Agent 47 outfit available in store. Dress Lara to kill in Hitman’s stylish black suit and red tie.
- Kitting Lara out with weapons is even easier in the new store layout.
- Limited time offers on items and new versions of current outfits.
- Keep hunting for those relics and remember that unexplored paths lead to undiscovered treasures!


Version 1.7.83
Updated: December 7th, 2015

- New Christmas Santa outfit
- New Area 51 outfit with bonus starting ammo
- New gold weapon options
- Improved Supply Drop opens as soon as Supply Drop is ready
- Improved Head Start now auto-collects gems, clues & power-ups
- Russian language Support
- Keep hunting for those relics & remember that every mountain top is in reach if you just keep climbing!


Version 1.8.88
Updated: February 10th, 2016

- Daily Login bonus – get a FREE prize every day you log-in!
- All new Supply Drop game! Choose a mystery box and win BIG!
- Improved tutorial – it’s now even easier to learn how to play Relic Run!
- Loading screen optimisation – get running even quicker with faster loading times.
- Game flow improvements – level objectives are now clearer and your next level auto-opens.

Version 1.9.94
Updated: March 16th, 2016

- See your Facebook friends' progress on your campaign map. Stoke that friendly rivalry by showing them who’s the Relic Run expert!
- Early item unlock – items are now accessible earlier without the previous progress requirements.
- Close to death and in need of a health pack, or running out of ammo with Mr T-Rex breathing down your neck? No problems – you can now restock items mid run!


Version 1.10.97
Updated: June 2nd, 2016

- New Weekly Challenges
- Enhanced boss fight animations

Version 1.11.106
Updated: October 23rd, 2018

- Improved difficulty balancing for the TRex Boss fight. Still… don’t forget… aim for the eye! (iPhone only?)
- Supply Drop – you can now receive up to three different items in one supply drop and more chance of winning gems and Ankhs. You no longer need to watch an ad to collect your reward.
- Reward Doubler – If you do a particularly stellar performance, you’ve now got the option to double the gems and coins rewarded.
- Store overhaul: take advantage of the new and more generous gem bundles to unlock and upgrade Lara’s equipment faster.
- Various bug fixes and improvements

Version 1.11.110
Updated: November 7th, 2018

- T-Rex balancing & better value gem bundles
- Various bug fixes and improvements

Version 1.11.112
Updated: February 27th, 2019

- Bug fixes and improvements

Version 1.11.114
Updated: August 6, 2021

- Bug Fixes
- Fix for IAP connection issue

And I personally only keep the latest version of the game on my drive (v1.11.114) and the modified v1.11.112 that has infinite everything and unlocked everything so I don't have to use the store haha.

So I am not even sure which version is with the music?

Earlier this year I talked to a TR fan who also works on preserving content on Discord (maybe they are on TRF too?) and at the time they were focusing on Android related stuff. So we talked about TRR and Relic Run.

They told me about how Relic Run changed over time from endless runner to level based. How Curses got removed and the Santa Outfit became unavailable as well. And a bunch of other things.

The problem with old Relic Run versions is that apparently once you get the APK of the version, you also need to get that version's obb file. And that was only downloadable through their server. Which no longer provides that.
XAPK format wasn't a thing back then either I think so yeah. Preserving old versions of Relic Run is maybe only possible if someone who has a particular version on their phone can provide the files.