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Time Trial Champions |  |  | Gotta chime in here. I frequently check in on BoD. A truly serious tragedy to see this amazing game flounder into basically oblivion. Champ - I dunno what this new site is, but I'm very happy to see some die hard BoD'ers doing something [anything] to keep the game alive. I have commented publicly on this forum and attempted to reach Sz on other platforms that I would love the opportunity to buy the ownership rights to Bike Or Die outright. I don't know what the game is worth monetarily. (maybe zilch at this point?) That has nothing to do with my interest. I am neck deep in managing a wildly successful mortgage channel for a Top 5 bank and have no material dreams of striking it rich in a defunct game of yesteryear.
No. The real truth is that Bike or Die is in my blood por vida. I simply want to be an Ambassador of Bike or Die, and would be grief stricken if BoD ever went dark/offline for good. I believe this is the one of the most incredibly complex and fantastically challenging games ever created, on any platform that exists. The possibilities are virtually endless. I know I am not alone. And that lends credence and clout to confirm that there's something special, something different about this crazy game.
Champ/Laser/Bones/the dudeguy/BikerBrian/Pickle/AndrewA/PMD, and I suppose newcomer L4gger625... (and dozens and dozens of other long time comrades of BoD) whatever happens, whoever has connections, please keep me in the loop. I would love to find a way to keep BoD alive and personally be involved in some kind of substantial capacity if possible.
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Kamirashi's game on Zip-Zap |  | | I was not expecting a medal here, it's such an awkward level to get a fast time on. |
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Mr.pickle.
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BikeForce | | | heh, I remember when this pack first came out and everyone had their minds blown by how good the graphics looked (Which is funny in hindsight). Gosh we gotta find some way to play this again! |
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Kenn's game on LaserTag | | | The limits people pushed this game is just nuts. I really dont think anyone plays games to nearly this level of (almost) perfection anymore. Most mobile games now are basically idle games designed to keep you playing long enough to watch ads and/or make purchases. There is just nothing out there that is a one time purchase and is then THIS engaging long term trying to do a specific trick.
Its kinda like looking at one of the original Mario games and comparing it to Mario Sunshine, its not even close to the same thing. Some of the game is infinitely better but there also is something that never really got recaptured since the original. I feel like there is almost nothing on the app store today that recaptures the original feel and addictiveness of the games on Palm OS back in the day (Big ones that come to mind for me are BOD, Tradewinds and Warfare Inc.) |
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Kamirashi's game on Zip-Zap |  | | Great run on this one. I'm glad it wasn't just a touch faster  .
It is tough to keep enough momentum on the climb to reach the finish flag. |
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Champ's game on Expl-O-sion 2.0 |  | | There are now finally nice ways to emulate bike or die.
The easiest way is to search for "Bike or Die PalmDB" and then to click the link to "try it now" at the bottom of the page. |
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Kamirashi's game on Jump Over | | | This could be so much faster, but I'm happy with gold |
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Kamirashi
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Kamirashi's game on Bike or Pi | | | Got the best possible beginning and just played the rest of the level really safe. |
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Kamirashi's game on Lifeboat Rescue | | | That was really unexpected, was aiming for top 10 and clutched this run! |
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Kamirashi's game on No Escape | | | The 2nd 14 year old gold beaten in a few days, still seems like it can be improved a bit with the new beginning. This takes me to #1 in the pack and #2 on the leaderboard  |
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Kamirashi's game on Planet | | | Keeping up the theme of 1 frame |
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L4gger625's game on Glass |  | | OMG FIRST TRY I SWEAR |
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Confessions of A BOD-aholic for life | | | Mr. Pickle, I want to tell you how I was able to enjoy my childhood game again in the hopes that you or anyone else can do it, too.
First, you need the hardware. I haven't been able to find a good Palm or old iPhone emulator so... Search online for a Palm device on sale or on your local flea market. I got a VERY cheap Palm III on a flea market, I wasn't looking for one but I casually saw it on exhibition! So I said "give me that right freaking now" I don't care if it doesn't work well, I love retro tech. It works and has the original charger but the battery doesn't work at all. It only works while charging and all data is lost on power off lol But hey, it was the equivalent of $3 USD! I also found a used Palm Treo 680 in very good condition for sale online a few years ago but the battery died shortly after... I could in theory be able to replace those Palm's batteries with generic 3.7v batteries but before that I need a very good research and confidence in doing this, I don't want to blow up such rare devices.
Recently, I bought a cheap iPhone 3G, it is used but in excellent condition! I was lucky to find not one but two of them in existence in my country's biggest online marketplace, although I snatched only one of them. I'm no big fan of Apple stuff but I am a big fan of BoD! I remember being able to install BoD on an iPhone 6 several years ago but it was barely playable due to bugs related to the menus, level loading or something, can't remember. So I went with a device which originally had installed iPhone OS 2.0, for which BoD was made, although my iPhone has iOS 4.2.1
The next step is installing BoD. Since it has been deleted from the App Store, you can only try to find online the .ipa package and install it through one of the two methods I've found so far: Patching the .ipa and installing it by enabling developer mode on the Iphone, or jailbreaking the iPhone. I can't remember how I did the former but I did extensive research online and did it on the iPhone 6 without jailbreak. Perhaps the bugs were caused by the patching? Anyway here's the ipa download: https://archive.org/details/ios_2_ipa Mirrors in my website: https://elinge.me/files/bod-2.1.1.ipa https://elinge.me/files/bod-2.0.1.ipa
In my case, I did my research online and found this very simple but effective guide https://www.reddit.co m/r/LegacyJailbreak/c omments/uwo07o/tutorialjailbreak_ios_421_untethered/ I had to use a not-so-old but slow laptop on which I installed Windows 7 some time ago, because the Redsn0w utility apparently doesn't work on Windows 10. Once I tried Windows 7 the jailbreaking was a breeze.
Once the iPhone was jailbroken, I installed the BoD 2.1.1 ipa with an old version of iTunes (no real reason to not use the current version of iTunes AFAIK, I just wanted to not install some sort of Apple spyware/bloatware and also to make sure Apple doesn't refuse to install my app and asking me to upgrade to the newest iPhone instead, here's the version I installed in case you're interested, from 2012 or something https://elinge.me/files/iTunes64Setup-10.3.1.55.exe), but I had to first install a package from Cydia which allows me to install apps that I don't "own". The package is "AppSync for iOS 4.0". Once I installed AppSync, iTunes was able to install the ipa without throwing an error related to me not owning a license to the BoD app. If you have a Palm, you will need a serial key to unlock the full version of BoD, here's a keygen which was hard to find https://elinge.me/files/bod2-keygen.exe or you can request me a serial in the Discord
Installing levelpacks from this site doesn't work, the screen freezes and then the lockscreen shows up with the touchscreen not responding at all, I have to reset the device when this happens. Seems to be a bug with Safari or iOS, because visiting an App Store link with Safari also results in freezing and the touchscreen stopping working. But I found a workaround You need to use a terminal, just like a tech-savy guy using Linux You need to put the levelpacks' .prc into /private/var/mobile/Applications/1A925875-A49B-4D09-A3D1-25B9A3CD352E/Documents (I don't know if the long ID can vary per device) You can also find your recordings here! In order to put the levelpacks here, you can do it on-device using the Terminal app and the cURL utility , they're on Cydia. Or you can just install the SSH service following the instructions on Cydia, connect to your iPhone and upload the files using the FileZilla or WinSCP program on Windows, the scp command built into Linux distros or even some app to transfer files using SSH on an Android device. If you or anyone else reading this need assistance on this, you can reach me and other BoD veterans on Discord here https://bikeordie.net/
I should say that playing in a Palm is better in the sense that it is the "native" or "original" experience, you have the physical buttons which are much better than a touchscreen, but you will almost certainly deteriorate them after enough BoD'ing The screen is also in danger of ugly scratching if you do a lot of BoDesign OTOH, you can get higher resolution on an iPhone (mine is 320x480 vs the 320x320 of the Treo) and you can play in portrait or landscape mode. Playing in portrait mode is surprisingly comfortable, BoD was designed for the Palms' square screens with physical buttons so in an iPhone you get extra screen space for the buttons and for seeing more level at a time But I miss my custom binding on the physical key "p" on the Palm to quickly toggle 3D mode at any time 
If I ever move or remove the files in my website, I will let you know the new links in future posts, or you can try a listing at https://elinge.me/files/ or perhaps https://files.elinge.me/
I vehemently encourage you and anyone else reading this to try getting their hands on an old Palm or iOS device, following my guide here and reviving this game's old glory! Join the Discord to get help on this, hanging out in general and also to be updated about any advances on the BoD: Revival project https://bikeordie.net/ |
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Kamirashi's game on No Escape | | | My God, how can you guys have such sky-high precision half-consistently? |
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Mr.pickle.
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Kamirashi's game on No Escape | | | Its not a case of practice… its better explained by obsession. Once you get the bug it doesnt go away, here i am popping back over here and its been almost a decade since i last was able to play & #128514; |
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Kamirashi's game on Sixpack | | | New route apparently, can maybe go below 24.50 if properly optimized |
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Kamirashi's game on Playground | | | One more gold for the pile. |
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Kamirashi's game on Draco | | | Thought the beginning was the best part, but turns out I gain it all with the end, not smooth, but apparently faster |
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Kamirashi's game on Piece Of Cake | | | This run had an insane middle part, I can't believe how much it beats the previous gold by |
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