A lost Resident Evil mobile game "Resident Evil: The Stories" has been dumped and preserved
Unlike the spin off titles, which tend to be released on main consoles and/or PC, the mobile ports are a whole different story, since they used to run not only in niche devices from decades ago, but they usually ran on certain subscription services and internet connectivity for the mobile devices, which was something not frequently seen in mobile devices at the time.
All of these details add up, making a vast majority of these games from the 2000s and early 2010s released on mobile from a wide variety of franchises to be specially hard to come by nowadays, more so since most of the phones have been ditches already in favour of more modern touch-screen based devices with current standardized operating systems. Only those users that still maintain their mobile phones from more than 10 years ago in a fully functional state, and also with their memory intact, are the only ones that could help to preserve all of the lost media from this specific age of gaming.
This is where Twitter user RockmanCosmo, with the help from m3M0ryHuN73R and usernameak, jumps in. In a collaborative effort and utilizing special debugging cables and tools like the Xyz's ktdumper script, they managed to successfully dump and preserve a demo of one of the Resident Evil mobile titles, this one being "Resident Evil: The Stories", which is a Mercenaries-like game set on the original Resident Evil 3's settings and timeline, seeing Jill traversing different sections from the PSX classic, like the Clock Tower, killing zombies and other B.O.W.s to gather points and getting a rank based on the performance. The free demo has a time limit, while the full game requires an internet connection.
"Resident Evil: The Stories" was part of multiple Mercenaries-based titles released on mobiles back in the mid 2000s, with the others being "Resident Evil: The Missions", "Resident Evil: The Episodes" and "Resident Evil: The Operations", all of which follow a similar gameplay format. These are far from being the only Resident Evil titles that saw the light of day in mobile devices back then, as there's also the aforementioned Resident Evil 4 port and also the Resident Evil: Degeneration mobile game, to name a few.
Thanks to their efforts, yet another title thought to be lost to time now has a change to be achieved and preserved for times to come, and one can only hope that more titles from this mostly neglected age of gaming can get their spotlight in the gaming archives for other generations.