r/marvelheroes • u/Knightmare236 • 4h ago
Question [Search] Marvel Mighty Heroes (DeNA, 2015) – does anyone still have the game installed on an old phone?
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to preserve Marvel Mighty Heroes, the 4-player co-op brawler by DeNA that shut down in 2016. I still have the APKs (1.0.9 and 2.0.11), but they only contain the UI, music and animations. All hero models, textures and levels were downloaded from Mobage's servers after install, and those servers are gone. As far as I can tell, nobody archived them.
So the only remaining copies are most likely on old phones or tablets where the game was played back then and never uninstalled.
If you have such a device lying around in a drawer:
- Please DON'T open the game, clear its data or uninstall it.
- Put it in airplane mode.
- Check if this folder exists: Android/data/com.dena.west.MarvelArena/
If it's there, the easiest way to copy it is via ADB on a PC:
adb pull /sdcard/Android/data/com.dena.west.MarvelArena/ mmh_cache
If the folder is empty or missing, an app backup might still work:
adb backup -f mmh.ab -noapk com.dena.west.MarvelArena
I'm happy to walk anyone through it step by step. This is a non-commercial preservation project. I just want to bring back a game I really loved, and of course I'll share anything recovered with the preservation community.
Any leads are appreciated: old Wayback Machine captures of files.mobage.com/files/marvel/, other preservation projects, or people who might still have it.
Thanks a lot!
