Getting working access to the final unpreserved game, Real Soccer 2009, was "especially cursed," Olsro tells Ars. "Multiple [people] came to me during this summer and all attempts failed until a new one from yesterday," he said. "I even had a situation when someone had an iPod Nano 5G with a playable copy of Real Soccer, but the drive was appearing empty in the Windows Explorer. He tried recovery tools & the iPod NAND just corrupted itself, asking for recovery..."That kind of problem highlights the race against time that Olsro and the iPod community was facing here.
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The iPod Clickwheel Games Preservation Project rescued all 54 official iPod clickwheel games
The games are available here, and Ars wrote about the project: