It’s iconic!

Firstly, let’s work out the missing icon for Sandwich Kingdom, Ice Palace. This was relatively easy, because some of the old Sifteo web site is preserved on the Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20150329211129/https:/www.sifteo.com/games and while many of the games landing pages, etc, are missing, the navigation strip is complete. A quick Save as… and we had our first missing image:

This needs to go in the brochure in a specific location, in a specific format: icon.png in the folder com.sifteo.skicepalace inside the Sifteo Sync AppData folder at C:\Users\<insertID>\AppData\Local\Sifteo\Sync\Users\nobody@sifteo.com\Booklets\com.sifteo.skicepalace and needed to be 96×96 pixels like the one for its predecessor:

Here is the resized version, ready to go in the right folder:

and in the context of the navigation strip, before:

and after:

Not too shabby After this, until mechafroggie got me the complete files – even his archive didn’t have the Ice Palace icon – I had the following files missing from the Brochure folder:

• word-caravan-0.png and word-caravan-1.png from C:\Users\<InsertID>\AppData\Local\Sifteo\Sync\Users\nobody@sifteo.com\Booklets\com.sifteo.wordcaravan\images

• tmnt-1.png, tmnt-2.png and tmnt-4.png from C:\Users\<InsertID>\AppData\Local\Sifteo\Sync\Users\nobody@sifteo.com\Booklets\com.sifteo.ninja_slide\images

The Word Caravan images were retrieved from http://cargocollective.com/dear-american/following/dear-american/Sifteo-game-landing-pages and https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.coleslawdesign.com/wp-content/uploads//*

The Ninja Slide missing images were harder to source – Teenage Mutant NInja Turtles being a more “protected” IP to deal with. In the end, I managed to scrape a screen shot of one missing image from https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/sifteo-cubes-intelligent-play-system-review-giveaway/

and with some clever editing, and comparing to the existing images in the folder I got a working version of tmnt-2.png

Others came from archive.org, specifically:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161126084755/http://www.kellynloehr.com/post/sifteo-cubes/ (now not fully archived) and https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.coleslawdesign.com/wp-content/uploads//* one example being https://web.archive.org/web/20190214004236/https://www.coleslawdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/NinjaSlide_detail_3.png along with the original artist’s online portfolio at http://cargocollective.com/dear-american/following/dear-american/Sifteo-game-landing-pages along with the Word Caravan images. Incidentally, this page http://www.wobblyart.com/pixelart/TMNT/TMNT_art.html had some lovely close ups of the art assets used in the actual Sifteo game!

So, we had a complete Word Caravan and Ninja Slide brochure folders Incidentally, the files that mechafroggie provided were – because I was judging by eye, sometimes with a fleeting glimpse of the target image in a YouTube video (!) – almost identical to the ones I recreated. However, in the accompanying archive update for the v2 games, I have (with the exception of the first icon.png file) used the reclaimed original images, rather than my Gimped versions; it’s nicer to have the authentic files

We now can finally complete the v2 commecrial game offering on this site. Here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7qnnoro0ze8nbzj/Booklets.zip?dl=0

Decompress into your own AppData folder for Sifteo Sync