Keitai Archive has emerged as a community-driven effort to rescue and document games and media from Japan’s bygone feature phone era. The term keitai (携帯) literally means “mobile” in Japanese and refers to the pre-smartphone handsets that dominated the country’s gaming and internet culture throughout the 2000s. The archive collects titles, wallpapers, ringtones, and interface customizations that are no longer commercially available and have become inaccessible on modern smartphones.
A key component is the Keitai World Launcher, a tool that allows users to launch applications from different SDKs without needing to reconfigure their PC settings. The project also maintains a close relationship with its associated Keitai Wiki and houses open-source resources via GitHub.
What began as a subset of the Kahvibreak / J2ME preservation efforts now stands on its own as a growing archive dedicated to Japan’s feature-phone gaming culture.
You can explore the project, download tools, and browse the archive at keitaiarchive.org.