Cookie's Bustle - Obscure 1999 Japanese PC Game that's now gotten attention because some copyright dipshit is trying to scrub this from the net.

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Colon capital V

Colon capital V

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Only making this thread because of the news about some autist trying to scrub this game from existence (including any videos/download links/reuploads/etc.) since they somehow managed to get the rights behind the game + archiving it here for safekeeping.
More info in this video


It's already been reuploaded to archive.org but I know that that's probably not gonna last long so thankfully the fine troons over on the CB discord server provided some mirrors to download (and if those go down then I still have a local copy for myself on my hard drive)
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01/23/2023 12:09 AM
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— 01/23/2023 12:49 AM

full VM image (at your own risk) [from @JomSpoons]

has game set up and ready to play on windows XP
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— 01/23/2023 11:53 PM
Mirror of Cookie's Bustle

Filename: cb.rar
sha-256 hash - 5b6efa0067d7127957d10ca4d0e5ccccb10d6cda5dce32e21b01a06c58fb36ee
[Decrypt below with Base64]
link - https://mega.nz/file/7VxTkAYI
decryption key - wmqvnPQ8J_E3DTN5b8isYO--AFpC42YBEUW1eAr14CY
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— 01/24/2023 9:35 PM
Full assetrip
introducing the fuller rip, including ~400 more MB of images, audio, and now videos!
the files are also properly named now

link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1emJ1hO8vMAIZ0zrsmUHLqdvfDPGZFGxG/view?usp=share_link
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— 01/25/2023 5:03 PM
if you don't want to play the game in a VM, run it in 640 x 480 resolution compatibility mode

(can possibly have compatibility issues beyond just running)


Don't use QEMU, seems to have lag issues with cookie (possibly)
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— 01/31/2023 10:16 AM
another mirror:
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— 01/31/2023 9:27 PM
pastebin of this channel just in case!

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— 02/06/2023 12:36 AM
Pre set up win 98 vm
Windows 98 Second Edition installation with Cookie's Bustle preinstalled and mounted. I still highly recommend using Windows XP instead as it's much more stable, but if you really want to run other software from the time then this is a good way of going about it.

This is for VMware only, not compatible with VirtualBox

archive.today link to archive.org: https://archive.ph/7Ep7H
Link to the Cookie's Bustle Discord server if you care for whatever reason: https://discord.gg/FqAJYybth8
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Is there a TL;DW on why it's being done? Greed or something dumber?
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Either it's some incredibly bored troll looking to stir shit up or an angry collector that's upset the game was available for people to play and so he pretended to be a copyrighter mass flagging shit to be taken down so that only he has a copy, at least according to this post in the vinesauce thread
 
There's other websites dedicated to old Mac games as well, which seem to have copies for the two platforms.

I'll see if I can get it going.
 
To be fair, those faggots who destroyed all those copies of Nukie proved it works. Price fixing and faux collector's items is the way of the future. Nobody can wait for these items to actually gain meaningful value, they have to artifically inflate them ASAP since.. To be honest, most of them will never gain any value due to being hideously mass produced.
 
What i think we should do is create a honeypot to get purposely taken down that way we might get the email of this alias Brandon White


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Muta made a video about the game.
 
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Colon capital V said:
Either it's some incredibly bored troll looking to stir shit up or an angry collector that's upset the game was available for people to play and so he pretended to be a copyrighter mass flagging shit to be taken down so that only he has a copy, at least according to this post in the vinesauce thread
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In any situation I don't think this guy has any rights to the game at all. He's stirring shit because he thinks the game simply being obscure is enough for none of the original creators who actually probably still have IP rights would care. In fact, Pat himself covered a situation two months earlier where he basically proved this was the case when a different tard went out of his way to fuck with the credits of some other obscure vidya shit.
Basically he was getting away with this nonsense for a while until he decided it was a bright idea to step on the toes of a composer for one of the title's he's claiming he has some rights over. I'm not sure the chances of that happening with cookie's bustle because it seems like this guy keeps himself just to screwing over streamers and youtubers but it is similar.
 
I've only ran into this because someone I know keeps reuploading this game everywhere and keeps getting hit with DMCAs.
Fuck the DMCA, I hope it gets fucking abolished and people filing false claims get assraped in court so we finally get some legal precedent.
 
Sorry to bump this thread, but it appears that "As For Dreams" (at least the High Quality version of this) is no longer available to view on the web from what I've searched. Thankfully though, I've saved a copy from the youtube upload that was up some time ago.

I cut the "Announcer" part off since I hated listening to it at the beginning but otherwise this is pretty much the Cookie's Bustles song itself.
 
necroing this thread but I think it’s important, at least for people wanting to learn about the game.
The guy is still sending out DMCA’s even two years later, except Brandon White is now using Ukie, a United Kingdom trade association, to help issue these strikes though Web Capio.
Apparently they tried issuing a DMCA to the models resource, which is a site for hosting video game models. According to what I’ve been told by people in the cookie’s bustle community when they counter claimed thy received no response back.

Brandon white has apparently also sent DMCA’s to individuals merely talking about cookie’s bustle and to people making art. Any video game streams or videos, even if transformative, are still taken down via Web Capio sending DMCA’s, citing “Graceware” and “Nintendo” as the issuer.

Despite the videos claiming the Brandon White “lost”, he still succeeded in his goal. Few sites are allowed to post or have discussion due to his DMCA’s and the game only has like two videos on YouTube actually about it. It’s absurd how a foreign country like the UK is allowed to issue DMCA’s towards American companies and force them to comply with a deranged foreigners demands that they dare not even speak about the game.
 
Forgot about this unfortunate situation, we're going on 3 years later at this point. Surely someone's managed to dox the guy if he's so willing to repeatedly stir shit through the legal system? There's no way he's a savant at keeping his identity hidden if he's this much of a sperg.
 
Sorry if it me a while. Having issues with uploading attachments. Apparently, people are also having issues as well. That, or it's probably my internet.

Anyways, here's Cookie's Bustle. I included both the .iso and CD key.
For anyone who wants to play this, you're gonna need an old Windows 95 computer or a VirtualMachine.
  • Operating System: Windows 95
  • Processor (CPU): Intel Pentium 200 MHz
  • System Memory (RAM): 64 MB
  • Graphics (GPU): 640x480 resolution, 16-bit color
  • Storage: 200 MB
Long live gaming preservation. Happy gaming, kiwi bros.
 

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FWIW, the sperg does have a Discord account and from what a friend told me there’s recently been people in servers related to this game getting spammed with false reports so if someone took the time to vet every user in these places they could work out what account he’s using to spaz on there too.
 
Toolbox said:
Forgot about this unfortunate situation, we're going on 3 years later at this point. Surely someone's managed to dox the guy if he's so willing to repeatedly stir shit through the legal system? There's no way he's a savant at keeping his identity hidden if he's this much of a sperg.
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The names he used in copyright have been doxed, but the name is fake, or at least nobody has found info on him to tie him to any actual identity.
TheRetardKing said:
Long live gaming preservation. Happy gaming, kiwi bros.
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Virtual machine is the best, using windows XP. I used. Virtualbox allows you to mount the .cue folder and play the game ez, think you need to enable guest additions though.
here's some general instructions from the community

The methods below are sorted by least hassle first. Try the first one before you try the next.


  1. Just run it on Windows 10/11
    Cookie's Bustle actually runs pretty well on modern Windows.
    1. (Optional) Set your non-unicode locale to Japanese if you want to be able to read the text during installation and the error messages during game launch. Otherwise this isn't needed as the game itself doesn't render text.
    2. Mount the Cookie's Bustle .ccd or .iso (depending on which version you grabbed; the torrent above is the original rip, which is in ccd/cue/img format). If you have the .ccd rip, mount it (the CloneCD file, not the IMG file) with WinCDEmu and disc type as CD-ROM; if it's the .iso one, Windows should be able to mount it natively by just double clicking on the file.
    3. If you get a "Disc is corrupt" error when mounting, it's most probably that you've skimmed the instructions and tried to mount the .img file instead of the .ccd file.
    1. Run the setup on the mounted CD (just click the usual next button even if you can't read the text).
    2. Uninstall the bundled Quicktime and install Quicktime 6.5.2 (grab it from oldversion.com). This is important unless you want stuttering audio throughout the game. Beware however that installing old, outdated media players may constitute a security risk. If you do not want this you'll have to try the VM method below.
    3. Right-click on the Cookie's Bustle shortcut in your start menu, go into properties, and enable the "640x480 resolution" option under the Compatibility tab. You don't need any other compatibility options (and enabling them might actually cause problems, e.g. enabling the Windows 98 compat option might make the game keep asking you about the serial code).
    4. The resolution is important. The game will only run in older 4:3 resolutions, and for anything higher than 640x480, it'll just insert black bars around the game content. So please just use the 640x480 compat option instead of asking for a widescreen patch on the Discord.
    1. Run the game with the disc still mounted. Ignore the pop-up warning saying that the game is written for Windows 95/98/2000 only. Enter the serial code; one possibility is CB1W-30003-1007-66.
    2. Every time you run the game you'll need to mount the CD, i.e. step 2.
  2. Run it under Wine
    For the Linux/macOS/BSD/Solaris(?!) users, or Windows users who love WSL2 too much. See the WineDB page for configuration details. It pretty much works out of the box, but if you want a step-by-step guide:
    1. Install Wine. The instructions vary distro by distro, so check WineHQ for details. You don't really need the latest version so even the ones in your distro's repositories should work. On Ubuntu and WSL2 this would be sudo apt install wine. For macOS people, get Homebrew first, then brew install --cask wine-stable.
    2. Create a 32-bit prefix. WINEPREFIX=~/.wineprefixes/CB WINEARCH=win32 winecfg.
    3. On newer macOS versions you might encounter a Bad CPU type error. This is due to Apple deprecating support for 32-bit programs, in which case substitute winecfg with wine64 winecfg.
    1. Tweak the configuration a bit. Go to the Graphics tab, enable Emulate a virtual desktop, and set the resolution to 640x480. Then, in the Desktop Integration tab, uncheck Manage file associations.
    2. If you downloaded the CCD/IMG/CUE rip, convert the .ccd rip into an .iso. ccd2iso cookiesbustle.ccd cookiesbustle.iso. (If you don't have ccd2iso installed just install it. sudo apt install ccd2iso.)
    3. Mount the ISO. sudo mount -o loop /path/to/cookiesbustle.iso /mnt
    4. Wrangle two symlinks so that Wine will present the mounted ISO as an actual CD.
      1. cd ~/.wineprefixes/CB/dosdevices
      2. rm d: d::
      3. ln -s /mnt d:
      4. ln -s /path/to/cookiesbustle.iso d::
    5. Install the game. WINEPREFIX=~/.wineprefixes/CB LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine /mnt/setup.exe
    6. On newer macOS versions you might encounter a Bad CPU type error. This is due to Apple deprecating support for 32-bit programs, in which case substitute wine with wine64.
    1. Run the game! WINEPREFIX=~/.wineprefixes/CB LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine ~/.wineprefixes/CB/drive_c/Program\ Files/cb1/CB1W.exe
    2. Serial: CB1W-30003-1007-66. Every time you play the game you need to mount the CD, i.e. step 5.
  3. Run it under a VM
    If you really want to, you can try running Cookie's Bustle under a VM. Technically, the game was written for Windows 95/98/2000, but it runs on XP as well. Try XP first because no VM software is going to give you a good Windows 9x experience unless you are already familiar with all the quirks and specific drivers you need to hunt for.
    I will not incude a step-by-step tutorial on how to use each VM software and how to install Windows 98/2000/XP using each. If you do not already know how to install older versions of Windows and properly configuring a VM from the ground up for them, just use the pre-configured VMs in the download section above. Download the whole torrent, and read the README for instructions.
    The choice of guest OS and virtualisation software (VMWare, VirtualBox, QEMU) is up to you. Different people have reported different and conflicting results on which combination runs best — it depends on your system and YMMV.
    There's also the possibility of running the Mac version under SheepShaver. It works, but again, YMMV. The Mac version requires a serial beginning with CB1M instead of CB1W. One possibility is CB1M-30003-5011-50.
    Common errors when running in a VM:
    1. I'm running a Windows 95/98/ME VM and explorer.exe or some .dll keeps crashing.
      You wouldn't have this problem if you're using Windows XP instead. The issue is your CPU is too new for Win9x. If you insist on using Win 9x, you'll need this patch: https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x Download the floppy .img, attach it to your VM, boot from it, and follow the instructions on GitHub in running the patcher.
    2. Cookie's Bustle just wouldn't run. An error pops up and I don't read Japanese.
      You need to set your resolution to 640x480, and mount the CD correctly (look into your VM's settings; you shouldn't mount the disc within the guest OS when you can do it at the hypervisor level). Learn how to use your VM software of choice, or just use the pre-configured VMs.
    3. I'm trying to install Windows 95/98 and it won't even boot into the installation CD.
      In the old days you'll need to boot from a floppy that has CD drivers, format your harddisk, copy the setup files from the CD to your harddisk, then run the actual setup. Seek out a boot floppy and the relevant instructions on basic DOS operations. Be willing to learn and search around for step-by-step tutorials. Vogons is a good forum for people running old Windows versions.

 
Enig said:
FWIW, the sperg does have a Discord account and from what a friend told me there’s recently been people in servers related to this game getting spammed with false reports so if someone took the time to vet every user in these places they could work out what account he’s using to spaz on there too.
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I'm not even surprised. So someone has to find the mole and destroy them for good. That could take 1000 years
 
Has anyone tried hosting a shitty Web 1.0 download site and ignoring his fraudulent DMCAs?
You could even just host torrent files, thus making DDOSing it less effective.
 
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