Marble Blast and the Disappearance of the Mobile Version?!

A few years ago I found out Marble Blast had been created for iOS and I promptly downloaded it. About a year ago I had to reset my phone to clear up some storage space, and Marble Blast Mobile had been backed up to iTunes along with my other apps. When I went to reinstall everything, Marble Blast didn't download. I checked the app store and MBM was gone. I looked at my app purchase history, and MBM wasn't there. I checked the forums, and nobody was mentioning its disappearance. Now with the new site, I went over to the "Downloads" page and read about the history of Marble Blast. The page never mentioned MBM being taken down or what could have happened to it, and I still don't know why MBM never reinstalled on my phone after resetting it even though it was backed up. Does anyone have an explanation as to why MBM disappeared off the AppStore and does anyone know where I can potentially find the app? Thanks!

I'm sure that there are people that have a better backround than me on topics such as this, so please correct me if I'm wrong. The IAC (InterActive Corp) aquifer the rights to Marble Blast shortly after the demise of Instant Action, which also resulted in the removal of Marble Blast Gold (though it is still available on this website for free) downloads on all websites, as well as Marble Blast Ultra on the XBLA (even now MBU is only playable as a trial version due to a patch that removed access to pretty much all of the levels and most of multiplayer). Marble Blast Mobile is only playable by a select few who haven't backed up their phones or haven't deleted it otherwise.

It's a tough world, lol. I would love to see a new Marble Blast app appear in the near future.

I had the same problem. I had to jailbreak my device to play again. I don't want to provide links to piracy though. I still have the official ipa on another hard drive somewhere but I couldn't find that file, so I downloaded an older version that I found on google. The latest ipa doesn't seem to be downloadable anywhere.

~ Matt

Check if the ipa is still on your computer. Here's the location of the folder on Mac and Windows: osxdaily.com/2011/12/15/where-ios-apps-s...ac-os-x-and-windows/

Sorry for moderately necroing this thread (it was only the 3rd in the board), but since this site has MBG unapologetically available to download for free, would having a download for MBM be any worse? I know that GG gave permission for MBP and mods in general, but FAIK, that doesn't apply to downloadable un-purchased copies.

Bottom line* I have a copy of what I believe is the last version of MBM. (1.2) It was legally purchased by me for $10 (before they lowered the price) and I have all the gold times, and pretty good ones as well. (lol) Would it be acceptable to make it available in the downloads section? I haven't cracked it, and I don't even know if I have to be the one to crack it. I don't even know if it needs to be. I don't even know how to crack it. I would assume it would be just as legal as the MBG downloads.


* here it is!: ____

The problem with offering MBM is that Apple has very tight control over the iOS platform, and you wouldn't be able to install it if it wasn't under your account. There is no real way around this without jailbreaking, and I don't have the resources available to create a cracked version of MBM for jailbroken phones

If you made your MBM download available on the site, anyone downloading it would be prompted to authenticate with your Apple ID. I figure you probably wouldn't want that (tested with Matan and I a few months ago, no success). If you want to attempt to crack it, by all means, go ahead. Just want to let you know that I'm strongly against hosting a cracked version of MBM on our site, simply because of the difficulty people will have to go through to install it (I don't want to support people trying to jailbreak their phones, in the event that something goes wrong).

HiGuy wrote: The problem with offering MBM is that Apple has very tight control over the iOS platform, and you wouldn't be able to install it if it wasn't under your account. There is no real way around this without jailbreaking, and I don't have the resources available to create a cracked version of MBM for jailbroken phones

If you made your MBM download available on the site, anyone downloading it would be prompted to authenticate with your Apple ID. I figure you probably wouldn't want that (tested with Matan and I a few months ago, no success). If you want to attempt to crack it, by all means, go ahead. Just want to let you know that I'm strongly against hosting a cracked version of MBM on our site, simply because of the difficulty people will have to go through to install it (I don't want to support people trying to jailbreak their phones, in the event that something goes wrong).

Oh thats a shame Do you know if MBM will ever go back on the App Store for nonjailbroken users?

As far as I'm aware, MBM is never coming back. Similar to MBU, you can still play it if you bought it (afaik), but it cannot be purchased. At this point, it's so far off the App Store that you can't even redownload it if you bought it previously.