UPDATE: This is a repost from my Twitter! Hi guys! I'm still working towards having the Mean Girls game debugged and released as it was my main goal to share the game in its entirety. I hit a bit of a moral dilemma when the source asked me not to share it for reasons of their own that id like to respect. Honestly it makes sense, if I shared sensitive information from an old company I would be worried it would be traced back to me and that other dev teams wouldn't want to work with me in the fear their stuff would be leaked, so I can see why the person had asked me not to. I want to make sure a maintain a trusting relationship with the people who share lost media with me, whether they give permission for me to release stuff or not. I want to find more lost media and I feel like betraying the trust of people who share stuff with me just is not a good look, and i hope people understand. But that doesn't mean I was looking to hoard anything for myself, if I was doing that, I never would have released Clueless. I just wanna make sure I do everything respectfully, but I guess I'm just writing this to let anyone curious know, that I'm still attempting to either get their permission a second time around, or get in touch with someone who can give me the okay So much has already been found in such a short amount of time for a game we barely had any information about prior, and I feel like that in itself is already a huge step closer. ❤❤ im not done, and thank you for the kind words
Hey Bobdunga! I have loved your content for the last few years and this lost media stuff really took my interest in your channel to a whole new level! I completely understand not feeling comfortable releasing someone else's content, and I believe that finding the media is the most important part so thank you for sharing and all the hard work you have put into t his!
I completly understand and agree with your judgment ! This is why I quickly fell in love with your channel. Not only are your editing, directing, investigation and journalism skills fantastic, you seem to be really kind, honest, well-intentioned and just pleasant to be around! Thank you so much for your engaging content, I can't wait for the next chapters on this journey
There are two more things you should try with the rom: 1. Try it on the melonds emulator instead. 2. Try it on a r4 flashcart for the ds (works for 3ds too). You could play it on a hacked 3ds too.
As much as I’d lobe for this to ultimately become publicly available, I 100% respect and approve of your decision not to release the rom. It’s one thing if it’s given to you by a source who says it’s OK to post or says nothing about posting it, but since your source specifically asked you not to publish it you are absolutely doing the right thing. That’s a hard sacrifice to make, especially when people are clamoring for it, but it shows real journalistic integrity and respect for your sources. I applaud your decision and will just hope for a future scenario where the rom may be allowed to be released. Until then, your videos are at least preserving gameplay. I applaud you and all your hard work and integrity!
I respect you SO MUCH for this!!! Stick to it!! This is the respect you've earned, and why they opt to give ONLY you things! I do have a suspicion that the CEO GR was actually the guy who wanted to remain anonymous with Clueless Fashion DS. I bet he just didn't want it known and public he did it, due to NDA. I mean it had to be at least a manager to have ALL the design documents, and not just one..... ONLY a guess! I'm a computer nerd so I hope this next part helps? Seriously, a multi-threaded CPU of todays standards should show you EVERYTHING running on the DS ROM, en masse lol, and also within the emulator lies debug tools that can run frame by frame and such... This is is how they "polish" the game, you can fix anything with the right know how here. Its just really complex to understand(FYI most any machine/computer today is really capable doing this thought). Don't even try running it on real hardware, or anything retail, if its not working(nothing bad will happen, it just prob isn't finished somehow). Renaming the file sometimes is all it takes, though. More than likely there are too many debug tools running in ram and it hits an overhead/limit or something of that sort. It probably needs something with a higher allocation of memory. Which is what developer units have. If dev units aren't computer based, they are "consoles" that look like their retail counter-parts, but under the hood have improvements to help ease game development. They need the extra overhead/extra fancy parts, that just aren't feasible in mass market devices.
Except the latter can't be shared online due to respecting the anonymous's wish and also because the game is incomplete. Even if the ROM gets shared online, we wouldn't get pass the first minigame due to a glitch.
Raven is out here pulling off the DREAM. Digging up not one, but TWO lost games? She's putting in work that would make both retro game enthusiasts and lost media fans blush, and we love to see it! 👏🏽👏🏽
So happy to finally see this second part. Such a shame it had to get cut short like that, but what you've shown is already big on its own. 😭 Hopefully the rom will be able to get fixed sooner rather than later. 🤞
I loved the doc and I'm sorry about the issues with the ROM legality and bugs. I just want you to know that despite some of the toxic comments I've seen your posts getting on reddit and here on youtube, many of us are thrilled to see what you have uncovered and understand finding lost media can be tricky. I have a hard time understanding why some members of the community are giving you so much hate for taking care with the process of uncovering the full ROM. It seems awfully immature and selfish to be angry with someone who uncovered the ROM of a game many thought was not even real. I hate that some members of the community are alleging that you have not found the real game and are giving you hate for respecting the leaker's wishes. But regardless, I believe in what you are doing and I respect your integrity and care you take with your work. I sincerely hope that you are able to work out the issues with the ROM, and that maybe one day a playable ROM will be released. Thank you for all you have done Raven, and I look forward to your future videos!
@@RayMona honestly sad to see they asked for it to not be put on like Internet archives, but at the same time I understand completely. Maybe someday it’s possible to have it so everyone can play it, but until then, this is like absolute perfection and its incredible you were able to even get it, and to be able to show the entire gameplay, which is incredible
@@RayMona ive suffered too with sexism on online spaces, and it sucks... also its ironic that they would harass you for not posting a "game for girls" that most of them wouldnt play and will not play even if you release it. I really like your work and i wish you luck
I can't even describe the absolute CHILLS I got seeing just the title screen... This is, genuinely, a historic discovery. I'm SO GLAD you were able to find it due to the attention of the first documentary, and I hope this one gets even more love and leads you to someone who can fix up the rom. I can tell the road to finding this game is something the lost media community will be talking about for years to come
Also I gotta say, just like the first one the production value and editing in this was just SPECTACULAR, and the guest voices blew me away (Saberspark and blameitonjorge are two of my go-tos for lost and obscure media, exquisite casting there)
Great work on this. Just for the sake of the rule of three, I hope one day it's unearthed that Capcom made a Legally Blonde game in the style of Ace Attorney that got canned before release.
This is insane. For so many years, Mean Girls DS has just been this rumor, this legend. I didn’t think it even existed. To think that now, in 2021, it’s finally been found, is crazy.
It's a shame the ROM can't be shared but I think you're in the right for respecting that person's wishes. Looking forward to seeing if you can get the rest of the game revealed!
First Clueless and now Mean Girls?! You’ve definitely cemented your status as a legend in the internet history books. Way to make the lost media iceberg creator have to update the iceberg to remove mean girls ds lol
Yo, I don’t care if this makes me sound like a loser but this is my first comment to ever get hearted and I’m honestly really hype about it lmao. Also tho I hope you ain’t staying up too late, especially if you’re in the Midwest or east coast lol. Anyways keep up the amazing work!
Girl this is legendary it would be cool if you looked at more lost/unreleased games like maybe next you can look into the Alice madness returns beta because there is a good bit of stuff that has been found like a couple of beta clips beta pictures and unused ost and voice lines and also unsused sfx so there's a lot to go of so in a since that's the proof the beta exist the unused 3D models are also in the files of the game and a clip called blink test I wanna see if you can find even more remnants of the beta what do you think
I'm so proud of you! Seriously, it's so cool to see a one decade old mystery being solved, also by a woman! You're inspiring, congratulations, and keep the good work!
Man, Mean Girls DS was my lost media white whale and it’s so incredible to see it found. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the work you’ve done :)
he probably doesn't actually care if you release it--just had to protect himself in case the communication gets traced back to him....but since he said that, your hands are tied for your own protection too i guess
Wasn't there a 3D earthworm Jim or something title that was found on a Dreamcast devkit? While the creator doesn't really approve of it coming out and being shared online, he IS turning the other cheek and choosing to willfully ignore it so long as it doesn't get sold for profit. I think the person in contact for the Mean Girls DS game could have taken the same approach, but I guess he/she is too important that it can jeopardize his/her career.
I’m doing to be starting my Masters degree in Media next year, and because of your incredible work, I’m honestly tempted to write my thesis on lost media and it’s community. Thank you for this fascinating journey!! Can’t wait to see some more gameplay when the timing works out ❤️
Surprised no one else is suggesting you ask your dev contacts for a debug room, cheat codes, or test saves. If you can't fix the ROM, you may still be able to access more content with any of those if they exist.
the amount of work it took you to uncover all this then the level of polish putting it all together in a video super commendable. amazing documentary keep up the great work
Just knowing that this game existed and wasn't just a troll is absolutely amazing. The dates that are always cited for the games released are dates commonly used by trolls. It's only a matter of time before you get the video we've all been waiting for released. Keep up the awesome
Been super-hyped for this video, and I'm delighted to report that it's indeed a banger! I adore the found footage-style elements of this installment, they feel like such a natural and fun progression of the prequel's style and pacing, particularly of the prequel's ending clip! While there's definitely stylistic similarities in both installments' visuals (love the return of the nostalgic 80's-00's aesthetics!), I noticed that this one leaned more into the digital, "cybersleuth" kinda vibes in comparison with its footage and edits, which really fits the more tense tone of this point in the investigation. I'm a bit of a visuals nerd, admittedly lol! While it's a shame that the ROM file cannot be shared, the fact that footage of the Mean Girls game in action is in some way available is truly one hell of an achievement! It's incredible to see lost gaming media being uncovered, and I have to note that there's a particular wonder to watching the uncovering of games lost to time unfold during E3, amongst announcements of new games on the horizon. This docuseries honestly has been so fun to watch unfold over the past while, and I'm really feeling the anticipation to see how the story ends! I really hope everything works out with debugging the ROM eventually, and that even more footage of this game will finally see the light of day!
I can't imagine how frustrating it must've been to have it glitch out, but there's definitely still hope that it'll eventually be playable and I'm greatly looking forward to that success. ♥ What you did find is still absolutely incredible, and correct me if I'm wrong, but the fact that it doesn't run probably indicates it never actually made it to shelves, right? Whatever the case on that though, what you've done is so cool, and the production quality on these videos are amazing; can't wait to see what topic you go into next!
I just finished part 1 and I gotta say, becoming a patreon support of your channel was a hell of a good call. Amazing stuff so far, and I know part 2 will be just as good if not, better! Congrats!
That's amazing you were able to even find this game in the first place! It just majorly sucks that you can't share the game and that the game was left unfinished in a buggy state. As someone who has a weird nostalgia for shovelware "girly" games, this is awesome to see! Despite never seeing the movie, I totally would've loved this game if I got it as a kid.
Just saying that if I really didn't want a ROM to get out, I'd make the recipient agree to that BEFORE sending the file. Hopefully this mysteriously leaks sometime in the next few years.
I wouldn't be surprised, but at the same time feel like I'm mostly just interested in the journey up to this point. As is, we were very fortunate someone was nice enough to give bobdunga the Clueless one and so much more, not to mention any real proof that either of these games exist.
Remember Viacom has some stakes in the mean girl property. The copystrikes are real. Pepperidge farms Remembers when Viacom would flag every other spongebob meme video and prevent us from cataloguing the Icarly web exclusive shorts after the site shut down in 2018 to the point channels were mass claimed or deleted for copyright issues. So the legality of who owns the Roms is probably the biggest concern.
Oh my god she really did it y’all. The fact that you needed to uncover the Clueless game in order to find the Mean Girls game is just wild to me. It’s been a great ride though
Holy crap! I can't believe you found it. After part 1 I was pretty certain that the Mean Girls game was gone for good. This is absolutely legendary! Hats off and kudos on a job well done. Hope you find someone to debug your game. Honestly, the mod/preservationist/hacker community should be chomping at the bit for a chance to play an unreleased game that almost no one besides you and a handful of developers have ever played before.
I’m so excited to watch! Your last part was phenomenal! One of the best videos I’ve ever watched on RUclips & this is def my niche bc I’m obsessed with mean girls, clueless, and nostalgia .. your content is amazing ❤️
This has in its own way become like one of those old school shows lol. Can't praise the editing enough fantastic work and the voice over with the on screen parts you have made an incredible series of videos.
Nice Work! Besides this glitch, one mystery still remains: was this game accidentally released (or leaked probably) somewhere before by some game retailer, or people who claim to have seen it or even have played it are just some kind of Mandela Effect, as said in your previous video?
i feel like this video is not as viral as it deserves to be??? i feel like this has always been one of the biggest mysteries that i'd always hear about on the internet like, why is this not the biggest thing ever???
I found your channel with the Clueless video and I love how you presented everything, it was really interesting and I got really excited when you released the trailer for this. Great job! I can't wait to see the story unfold. I am really sad to see people pushing you about releasing the game. If the game had been released when it was meant to there would never have been so much hype to play it, and I think it is great you are sticking to your guns and respecting your source. That kind of thing getting out could ruin someone's career.
Usually, stuff like this peaks my interest. I'll watch the video for a bit, then get bored with the monotonous style on how whoever has made the video. But, I'm hooked from start to finish with your videos. The way you write, and how you make your content, keeps me interested from start to finish. Awesome job!!
Congratulations. After so long, you found the answer to a burning question in the hearts of millions of people Now you have an awesome story to tell your grandchildren
Just wondering, have you tried running it on a flash cart? I know some DS emulation isn't perfect, and can result in issues that don't occur on actual hardware.
This particular game has been on so many lost media lists so this is crazy to me! I can't believe you were able to get your hands on the ROM. I didn't even think it existed at one point.
I've been moving out of my apartment for the last week and have been saving this video as a reward for getting most of it done. So glad you were able to find it!!!
i felt like i was watching an episode of veronica mars, the mystery files of shelby woo, or carmen sandiego. it was really well put together raven. ...."dunga mars", "raven dungiego", "bobdung woo".....sorry i couldn't resist.
Witnessing history!! It's really cool watching the surprises unfold. I wasn't expecting the Cady version to be uncovered. I think this video would get the bigger views it deserves if the thumbnail had something like "I FOUND MORE" on it. People not familiar with your work might overlook it and assume they already know what there is to know about this "still-lost" game.
It's amazing that you were able to finally get Mean Girls DS. It's sad that it has a bug like that but I'm glad we can hope for the day that full gameplay is released. Thank you for your work.
You are amazing!!!! Seriously! This is an incredible find!! 💖💖💖 You might have already tried this, but does the game have a debug menu? That might have a level select screen it will allow you to bypass the burn book. I have no idea how you would trigger it, but you could check to see if other published games by crush have them and what the input is. It might be the same or similar! Alternatively, maybe the source who sent the file might know? Either way, you set out to find it and succeeded!! Thank you for documenting the journey and letting us come along for the ride! 😊💜 Edit: I also I just read the Reddit thread. Yikes, they were toxic! Please don’t let them discourage you; what you discovered here was amazing!
im literally so excited to watch this!!!!!! thank you for your continuous effort for this the first doc was AMAZING and i know this one is going to be just as perf💖
this is such a good find!! great work Raven!! i always thought that this game was lost to the sands of time. it's so good to see that such an iconic piece of lost media was found!
Finally found the time to see this, and this is great for what you've uncovered! You a real sleuth in the lost gaming community in this! Here's to hoping when the world gets much better that the game can be properly fixed!
I absolutely adore your editing style! I loved the first part and the second part is bound to be even better! I could listen to you talk about literally anything.
This is so good, when I saw in my sub box I was ecstatic, I was hell yes Mean Girls DS! I'm glad you're getting closer and closer to completing your reports I'm rooting for you
this is so satisfying, your videos like these are my hyper-fixations (i have autism) and it makes me so happy watching these things unfold, thank you for making these ! i hope you make more
Amazing video, I'm really happy to see that this mistery is pretty much over. Just a shame that the source don't want the ROM file to be public, but at least we now know how the game is.
I can’t tell you how excited I was when I saw you posted and I wasn’t disappointed! What an absolutely wild ride! Shared game or not, thank you so much for all the time and hard work you put into investigating both games and into creating these amazing videos. It is honorable that you are respecting the source’s wishes, so I’m so sorry to hear about some of the negative responses. I hope you are not letting them get to you. You have done amazing work and have provided us with so much more content than we even knew existed in the first place. Thank you for letting us tag along.
Love it! I didn't even know this game existed until your first video showed up in my recommended two months ago, but ever since then I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I love your content and I love roller coaster this has been. Another banger!
This documentary and it's predecessor have been more than I ever expected As someone whose interest in lost media has the side effect of existential late night dread on the subject and game preservation in general, thank you so much for ensuring not one, but two lost games are no longer just that!
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UPDATE: This is a repost from my Twitter!
Hi guys! I'm still working towards having the Mean Girls game debugged and released as it was my main goal to share the game in its entirety. I hit a bit of a moral dilemma when the source asked me not to share it for reasons of their own that id like to respect.
Honestly it makes sense, if I shared sensitive information from an old company I would be worried it would be traced back to me and that other dev teams wouldn't want to work with me in the fear their stuff would be leaked, so I can see why the person had asked me not to. I want to make sure a maintain a trusting relationship with the people who share lost media with me, whether they give permission for me to release stuff or not.
I want to find more lost media and I feel like betraying the trust of people who share stuff with me just is not a good look, and i hope people understand. But that doesn't mean I was looking to hoard anything for myself, if I was doing that, I never would have released Clueless.
I just wanna make sure I do everything respectfully, but I guess I'm just writing this to let anyone curious know, that I'm still attempting to either get their permission a second time around, or get in touch with someone who can give me the okay
So much has already been found in such a short amount of time for a game we barely had any information about prior, and I feel like that in itself is already a huge step closer. ❤❤ im not done, and thank you for the kind words
Hey Bobdunga! I have loved your content for the last few years and this lost media stuff really took my interest in your channel to a whole new level! I completely understand not feeling comfortable releasing someone else's content, and I believe that finding the media is the most important part so thank you for sharing and all the hard work you have put into t his!
I completly understand and agree with your judgment ! This is why I quickly fell in love with your channel. Not only are your editing, directing, investigation and journalism skills fantastic, you seem to be really kind, honest, well-intentioned and just pleasant to be around! Thank you so much for your engaging content, I can't wait for the next chapters on this journey
There are two more things you should try with the rom:
1. Try it on the melonds emulator instead.
2. Try it on a r4 flashcart for the ds (works for 3ds too). You could play it on a hacked 3ds too.
As much as I’d lobe for this to ultimately become publicly available, I 100% respect and approve of your decision not to release the rom. It’s one thing if it’s given to you by a source who says it’s OK to post or says nothing about posting it, but since your source specifically asked you not to publish it you are absolutely doing the right thing. That’s a hard sacrifice to make, especially when people are clamoring for it, but it shows real journalistic integrity and respect for your sources. I applaud your decision and will just hope for a future scenario where the rom may be allowed to be released. Until then, your videos are at least preserving gameplay. I applaud you and all your hard work and integrity!
I respect you SO MUCH for this!!! Stick to it!! This is the respect you've earned, and why they opt to give ONLY you things!
I do have a suspicion that the CEO GR was actually the guy who wanted to remain anonymous with Clueless Fashion DS. I bet he just didn't want it known and public he did it, due to NDA. I mean it had to be at least a manager to have ALL the design documents, and not just one..... ONLY a guess!
I'm a computer nerd so I hope this next part helps?
Seriously, a multi-threaded CPU of todays standards should show you EVERYTHING running on the DS ROM, en masse lol, and also within the emulator lies debug tools that can run frame by frame and such... This is is how they "polish" the game, you can fix anything with the right know how here. Its just really complex to understand(FYI most any machine/computer today is really capable doing this thought). Don't even try running it on real hardware, or anything retail, if its not working(nothing bad will happen, it just prob isn't finished somehow). Renaming the file sometimes is all it takes, though. More than likely there are too many debug tools running in ram and it hits an overhead/limit or something of that sort. It probably needs something with a higher allocation of memory. Which is what developer units have. If dev units aren't computer based, they are "consoles" that look like their retail counter-parts, but under the hood have improvements to help ease game development. They need the extra overhead/extra fancy parts, that just aren't feasible in mass market devices.
Epic. You should submit your gameplay time as a speed run lol
Oh my god😂😂😂
I wasn't expecting to see you here.
@@mattwolf7698 man he was in part 1
Omg! That would be wicked as the game DOES exist and literally no one could ever best that time
YESSSSSSS
Full agree
Did....did she ever do it? Please tell me she did it
This is so cool! But forreal tho I want my pink shirt back
Schaffrillas is here
Okay but when is this getting on Netflix
🥺🥺🥺🥺
Right? This beats what's on there now. I want to hear that this got picked up as a miniseries.
THIS! QUALITY CONTENT.
FR this video DESERVES a netflix documentary!
This is better than E3
Agreed
Agreed
Agreed, but thats not hard
Lmfao 🤣🤣 ur right tho
Agreed
First the McDonald's DSi game, now the Mean Girls from the DS, it's like these lost media games are coming back to life.
The power of the Internet
Except the latter can't be shared online due to respecting the anonymous's wish and also because the game is incomplete. Even if the ROM gets shared online, we wouldn't get pass the first minigame due to a glitch.
she's the wolds greatest lost game detective.
The fact that the first is by a guy famous for mistreating women and the next is by a woman digging up disrespected girl games? Poetic cinema...
@@missybarbour6885 who was it that found the McDonald’s game and what did they do/say?
Raven is out here pulling off the DREAM. Digging up not one, but TWO lost games? She's putting in work that would make both retro game enthusiasts and lost media fans blush, and we love to see it! 👏🏽👏🏽
And not just any lost games, she found THE lost game! The holy grail! As she said, “from the top of the lost media ice berg”.
She’s fantastic!
it was the same when a cancelled PSP version of DN Critical mass was unearthed, same with the 2001 build of DN Forever.
And she now brought us the wizard from the MOOOONNNNNN!!!
So happy to finally see this second part. Such a shame it had to get cut short like that, but what you've shown is already big on its own. 😭
Hopefully the rom will be able to get fixed sooner rather than later. 🤞
I loved the doc and I'm sorry about the issues with the ROM legality and bugs. I just want you to know that despite some of the toxic comments I've seen your posts getting on reddit and here on youtube, many of us are thrilled to see what you have uncovered and understand finding lost media can be tricky. I have a hard time understanding why some members of the community are giving you so much hate for taking care with the process of uncovering the full ROM. It seems awfully immature and selfish to be angry with someone who uncovered the ROM of a game many thought was not even real. I hate that some members of the community are alleging that you have not found the real game and are giving you hate for respecting the leaker's wishes. But regardless, I believe in what you are doing and I respect your integrity and care you take with your work. I sincerely hope that you are able to work out the issues with the ROM, and that maybe one day a playable ROM will be released. Thank you for all you have done Raven, and I look forward to your future videos!
Honestly thank you so much
@@RayMona honestly sad to see they asked for it to not be put on like Internet archives, but at the same time I understand completely. Maybe someday it’s possible to have it so everyone can play it, but until then, this is like absolute perfection and its incredible you were able to even get it, and to be able to show the entire gameplay, which is incredible
@@ghostgirl7089 ikr? It's honestly all we need for our collective sanities lmao
@@RayMona ive suffered too with sexism on online spaces, and it sucks...
also its ironic that they would harass you for not posting a "game for girls" that most of them wouldnt play and will not play even if you release it.
I really like your work and i wish you luck
I can't even describe the absolute CHILLS I got seeing just the title screen... This is, genuinely, a historic discovery. I'm SO GLAD you were able to find it due to the attention of the first documentary, and I hope this one gets even more love and leads you to someone who can fix up the rom. I can tell the road to finding this game is something the lost media community will be talking about for years to come
Also I gotta say, just like the first one the production value and editing in this was just SPECTACULAR, and the guest voices blew me away (Saberspark and blameitonjorge are two of my go-tos for lost and obscure media, exquisite casting there)
Great work on this. Just for the sake of the rule of three, I hope one day it's unearthed that Capcom made a Legally Blonde game in the style of Ace Attorney that got canned before release.
god that'd be funny as hell
slowly all the nintendo ds lost media is becoming found (McDonalds eCDP, Clueless, and now Mean Girls) and its just an amazing sight to see
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REST UP QUEEN, YOU'VE EARNED IT
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This is insane. For so many years, Mean Girls DS has just been this rumor, this legend. I didn’t think it even existed. To think that now, in 2021, it’s finally been found, is crazy.
You literally just made internet history
It's a shame the ROM can't be shared but I think you're in the right for respecting that person's wishes. Looking forward to seeing if you can get the rest of the game revealed!
The development of story has been more thrilling than any Mexican telenovela.
YOU ARE A INTERNET HERO
Hyped to see Part 2!
This is part 2.
YES THIS IS THE TYPE OF DEEP DIVING RESEARCH AND JOURNALISM I WANT TO SEE!!!!!
First Clueless and now Mean Girls?! You’ve definitely cemented your status as a legend in the internet history books. Way to make the lost media iceberg creator have to update the iceberg to remove mean girls ds lol
Yo, I don’t care if this makes me sound like a loser but this is my first comment to ever get hearted and I’m honestly really hype about it lmao. Also tho I hope you ain’t staying up too late, especially if you’re in the Midwest or east coast lol. Anyways keep up the amazing work!
Thank you!😊❤
I had never seen Mean Girls before. So after watching Part 1 of your documentary, I tracked down a copy of the movie on DVD in preparation for this.
Omg, I'm so jealous... You get to see the film for the first time 🥺
Girl this is legendary it would be cool if you looked at more lost/unreleased games like maybe next you can look into the Alice madness returns beta because there is a good bit of stuff that has been found like a couple of beta clips beta pictures and unused ost and voice lines and also unsused sfx so there's a lot to go of so in a since that's the proof the beta exist the unused 3D models are also in the files of the game and a clip called blink test I wanna see if you can find even more remnants of the beta what do you think
I'm so proud of you! Seriously, it's so cool to see a one decade old mystery being solved, also by a woman! You're inspiring, congratulations, and keep the good work!
Man, Mean Girls DS was my lost media white whale and it’s so incredible to see it found. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the work you’ve done :)
I'm ready for Bobdunga's Nintendo DS debugging tutorial.
Blameitonjorge, Saberspark and YMS in the same video?! Im already hyped!!!
Holy cow I cannot believe that this has been found, this is amazing!!!!
The only thing that sucks about this is that you aren't allowed to publish the rom. One day, this game will get out there in a playable state I hope.
12 year later and our prayers are finally answered. The game no one asked for has finally been found.
So happy to see this game finally get found!!! Not far in the video yet but I love how it's edited. Didn't expect Saberspark.
Me either!! I've been waiting for this since at least 2015, when I first heard of the game being lost.
he probably doesn't actually care if you release it--just had to protect himself in case the communication gets traced back to him....but since he said that, your hands are tied for your own protection too i guess
Yup
Wasn't there a 3D earthworm Jim or something title that was found on a Dreamcast devkit? While the creator doesn't really approve of it coming out and being shared online, he IS turning the other cheek and choosing to willfully ignore it so long as it doesn't get sold for profit.
I think the person in contact for the Mean Girls DS game could have taken the same approach, but I guess he/she is too important that it can jeopardize his/her career.
SHE DID IT. SHE FOUND THE GAME. LETS FREAKING GOOOOOOO
And I remember people saying that this game never existed and the found screenshots were fake. You are an icon tbh
I’m doing to be starting my Masters degree in Media next year, and because of your incredible work, I’m honestly tempted to write my thesis on lost media and it’s community. Thank you for this fascinating journey!! Can’t wait to see some more gameplay when the timing works out ❤️
Surprised no one else is suggesting you ask your dev contacts for a debug room, cheat codes, or test saves. If you can't fix the ROM, you may still be able to access more content with any of those if they exist.
the amount of work it took you to uncover all this then the level of polish putting it all together in a video super commendable. amazing documentary keep up the great work
You got Schafrillas, Girlfriend Reviews and Saberspark to do the narration ?? What universe is this ????
Mean girls ds brings everyone together
FINALLY QUEEN! YOUR PART OF HISTORY NOW! ÙwÚ
Just knowing that this game existed and wasn't just a troll is absolutely amazing. The dates that are always cited for the games released are dates commonly used by trolls. It's only a matter of time before you get the video we've all been waiting for released. Keep up the awesome
Been super-hyped for this video, and I'm delighted to report that it's indeed a banger!
I adore the found footage-style elements of this installment, they feel like such a natural and fun progression of the prequel's style and pacing, particularly of the prequel's ending clip! While there's definitely stylistic similarities in both installments' visuals (love the return of the nostalgic 80's-00's aesthetics!), I noticed that this one leaned more into the digital, "cybersleuth" kinda vibes in comparison with its footage and edits, which really fits the more tense tone of this point in the investigation. I'm a bit of a visuals nerd, admittedly lol!
While it's a shame that the ROM file cannot be shared, the fact that footage of the Mean Girls game in action is in some way available is truly one hell of an achievement! It's incredible to see lost gaming media being uncovered, and I have to note that there's a particular wonder to watching the uncovering of games lost to time unfold during E3, amongst announcements of new games on the horizon.
This docuseries honestly has been so fun to watch unfold over the past while, and I'm really feeling the anticipation to see how the story ends! I really hope everything works out with debugging the ROM eventually, and that even more footage of this game will finally see the light of day!
And so it begins... again!
ICONIC. A lost media queen. 😭
its a shame the rom cant be shared but its incredible the game has surfaced at all! you and anon are amazing!
Nancy Drew can pack her bags, there's a new master detective in town and she's absolutely killing it
I can't imagine how frustrating it must've been to have it glitch out, but there's definitely still hope that it'll eventually be playable and I'm greatly looking forward to that success. ♥ What you did find is still absolutely incredible, and correct me if I'm wrong, but the fact that it doesn't run probably indicates it never actually made it to shelves, right? Whatever the case on that though, what you've done is so cool, and the production quality on these videos are amazing; can't wait to see what topic you go into next!
TYSM FOR DISCOVERING THIS QUEEENNNN 😎
TIME TO LISTEN TO THE OST NON STOP 👍 TYSSMMM
I just finished part 1 and I gotta say, becoming a patreon support of your channel was a hell of a good call. Amazing stuff so far, and I know part 2 will be just as good if not, better! Congrats!
I *J U S T* Finished watching a 3 *HOUR* Documentary about Fred & now I'm watching this!
Omg I added that to my watch later lol
Honey wake up Bobdunga just dropped the second part of girl games of lost media
That's amazing you were able to even find this game in the first place! It just majorly sucks that you can't share the game and that the game was left unfinished in a buggy state. As someone who has a weird nostalgia for shovelware "girly" games, this is awesome to see!
Despite never seeing the movie, I totally would've loved this game if I got it as a kid.
this is crazy! after over 10 years, you found the mean girls ds game! you are a legend for this
Just saying that if I really didn't want a ROM to get out, I'd make the recipient agree to that BEFORE sending the file. Hopefully this mysteriously leaks sometime in the next few years.
I wouldn't be surprised, but at the same time feel like I'm mostly just interested in the journey up to this point. As is, we were very fortunate someone was nice enough to give bobdunga the Clueless one and so much more, not to mention any real proof that either of these games exist.
Remember Viacom has some stakes in the mean girl property. The copystrikes are real.
Pepperidge farms Remembers when Viacom would flag every other spongebob meme video and prevent us from cataloguing the Icarly web exclusive shorts after the site shut down in 2018 to the point channels were mass claimed or deleted for copyright issues.
So the legality of who owns the Roms is probably the biggest concern.
blameitonjorge voicing the ROM distributor is everything. Thanks Raven
It’s crazy how I didn’t think I needed these games in my life until .. your videos
Oh my god she really did it y’all. The fact that you needed to uncover the Clueless game in order to find the Mean Girls game is just wild to me. It’s been a great ride though
Holy crap! I can't believe you found it. After part 1 I was pretty certain that the Mean Girls game was gone for good. This is absolutely legendary! Hats off and kudos on a job well done. Hope you find someone to debug your game. Honestly, the mod/preservationist/hacker community should be chomping at the bit for a chance to play an unreleased game that almost no one besides you and a handful of developers have ever played before.
Girl this is INSANE, you just made history
You've officially become my favorite lost media content creator. The work you do is incredible!
I’m so excited to watch! Your last part was phenomenal! One of the best videos I’ve ever watched on RUclips & this is def my niche bc I’m obsessed with mean girls, clueless, and nostalgia .. your content is amazing ❤️
This has in its own way become like one of those old school shows lol. Can't praise the editing enough fantastic work and the voice over with the on screen parts you have made an incredible series of videos.
Nice Work! Besides this glitch, one mystery still remains: was this game accidentally released (or leaked probably) somewhere before by some game retailer, or people who claim to have seen it or even have played it are just some kind of Mandela Effect, as said in your previous video?
i feel like this video is not as viral as it deserves to be??? i feel like this has always been one of the biggest mysteries that i'd always hear about on the internet like, why is this not the biggest thing ever???
I found your channel with the Clueless video and I love how you presented everything, it was really interesting and I got really excited when you released the trailer for this. Great job! I can't wait to see the story unfold.
I am really sad to see people pushing you about releasing the game. If the game had been released when it was meant to there would never have been so much hype to play it, and I think it is great you are sticking to your guns and respecting your source. That kind of thing getting out could ruin someone's career.
I'll admit, that "trailer" actually had me for a second until SaberSpark started talking
I'm still new to lost media but OH MY GOD! This is insane and I don't understand why there aren't more people talking about this! Congrats!!!
Usually, stuff like this peaks my interest. I'll watch the video for a bit, then get bored with the monotonous style on how whoever has made the video. But, I'm hooked from start to finish with your videos. The way you write, and how you make your content, keeps me interested from start to finish. Awesome job!!
Congratulations. After so long, you found the answer to a burning question in the hearts of millions of people
Now you have an awesome story to tell your grandchildren
It was worth the wait AND YET I'm still hurt inside 😭 we got there y'all and then we didn't omg I loved this ❤️
Just wondering, have you tried running it on a flash cart? I know some DS emulation isn't perfect, and can result in issues that don't occur on actual hardware.
Hearing Saberspark in the ad you did at the beginning was super fun and a surprise. Also you've done amazing work on all this.
This particular game has been on so many lost media lists so this is crazy to me! I can't believe you were able to get your hands on the ROM. I didn't even think it existed at one point.
I've been moving out of my apartment for the last week and have been saving this video as a reward for getting most of it done. So glad you were able to find it!!!
i felt like i was watching an episode of veronica mars, the mystery files of shelby woo, or carmen sandiego. it was really well put together raven.
...."dunga mars", "raven dungiego", "bobdung woo".....sorry i couldn't resist.
GIRL YOU DUG UP TWO LOST GAMES I STG YOU HOLD ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD AS A MEMBER OF THE LOST MEDIA COMMUNITY I NAME YOU QUEEN
Witnessing history!! It's really cool watching the surprises unfold. I wasn't expecting the Cady version to be uncovered. I think this video would get the bigger views it deserves if the thumbnail had something like "I FOUND MORE" on it. People not familiar with your work might overlook it and assume they already know what there is to know about this "still-lost" game.
It's amazing that you were able to finally get Mean Girls DS. It's sad that it has a bug like that but I'm glad we can hope for the day that full gameplay is released. Thank you for your work.
i never thought this day would come omg!! what a day for the lost media community, thank you bobdunga 💖
You are amazing!!!! Seriously! This is an incredible find!! 💖💖💖
You might have already tried this, but does the game have a debug menu? That might have a level select screen it will allow you to bypass the burn book. I have no idea how you would trigger it, but you could check to see if other published games by crush have them and what the input is. It might be the same or similar! Alternatively, maybe the source who sent the file might know?
Either way, you set out to find it and succeeded!! Thank you for documenting the journey and letting us come along for the ride! 😊💜
Edit: I also I just read the Reddit thread. Yikes, they were toxic! Please don’t let them discourage you; what you discovered here was amazing!
im literally so excited to watch this!!!!!! thank you for your continuous effort for this the first doc was AMAZING and i know this one is going to be just as perf💖
*leaving a comment to increase interaction of the video cause I see you’ve put a lot of effort here
I'm at work, but I can't wait to watch this tonight!! Historic videos on this channel.
this is such a good find!! great work Raven!! i always thought that this game was lost to the sands of time. it's so good to see that such an iconic piece of lost media was found!
Finally found the time to see this, and this is great for what you've uncovered! You a real sleuth in the lost gaming community in this!
Here's to hoping when the world gets much better that the game can be properly fixed!
I absolutely adore your editing style! I loved the first part and the second part is bound to be even better! I could listen to you talk about literally anything.
You deserve so much more recognition and views for this amount of research investigations and editing skills
I had a heartattack hearing saberspark as the narrator,
Loved the video BTW! Awesome job getting the game.
You’re doing gods work. I hope it can be shared in a playable state. I wonder if Nick Robinson could help?
Thank you so much for all your effort!
This is so good, when I saw in my sub box I was ecstatic, I was hell yes Mean Girls DS! I'm glad you're getting closer and closer to completing your reports I'm rooting for you
I am so impressed with you, your detective skills are unmatched and your documentary is super entertaining!
this is so satisfying, your videos like these are my hyper-fixations (i have autism) and it makes me so happy watching these things unfold, thank you for making these ! i hope you make more
Amazing video, I'm really happy to see that this mistery is pretty much over. Just a shame that the source don't want the ROM file to be public, but at least we now know how the game is.
I can’t tell you how excited I was when I saw you posted and I wasn’t disappointed! What an absolutely wild ride! Shared game or not, thank you so much for all the time and hard work you put into investigating both games and into creating these amazing videos. It is honorable that you are respecting the source’s wishes, so I’m so sorry to hear about some of the negative responses. I hope you are not letting them get to you. You have done amazing work and have provided us with so much more content than we even knew existed in the first place. Thank you for letting us tag along.
im going INSANE i cant believe it’s real
I super love the editing, and it feels like a RELIEF to find two lost games in two documentaries! Here, you dropped this: 👑
Love it! I didn't even know this game existed until your first video showed up in my recommended two months ago, but ever since then I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I love your content and I love roller coaster this has been.
Another banger!
This was so so worth the wait ~~~ great video !
The editing game in these videos have been on-point. Great work as always!
I love your channel is amazing I can’t believe the amount of lost media you have found!
What you did with this game and the other one was amazing! Keep up the good word!
This documentary and it's predecessor have been more than I ever expected
As someone whose interest in lost media has the side effect of existential late night dread on the subject and game preservation in general, thank you so much for ensuring not one, but two lost games are no longer just that!