Lost Dragon Ball Z fan RPG resurfaces after mystery user digs it out of a 2004 backup CD

Seven years ago, Resetera user pikablu opened a thread hunting for a long-lost Dragon Ball Z fan RPG that had vanished from the internet. The game ran on MS-DOS, used sprites from the Super Butōden SNES titles, and was once hosted on a Dragon Ball Z fansite called Planet Namek. The thread got 14 replies and went nowhere.

That changed when new user BenjiBrew showed up and cracked the case. After years of searching, they stumbled across an old backup CD from a 2004 PC and found the game sitting on it. Its full title is Dragon Ball Z - Wish for Immortality. BenjiBrew posted a MediaFire download link and screenshots to make sure it would not vanish again, and pikablu quickly confirmed it was the right game — streaming it with a friend who had also played it back in the day. The moment of recognition came when they found a character called Icebox, the game's stand-in for the villain Cooler.

Wish for Immortality was built in O.H.R.RPG.C.E. — the Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine — a free, open-source game creation tool first released in 1997 and last updated in January 2026. Before RPG Maker XP arrived in the west in 2005, O.H.R.RPG.C.E. was the main option for anyone wanting to make homemade 8-bit style RPGs. The game now has a permanent home on archive.org, and to play it you need to download the O.H.R.RPG.C.E. client separately.

The story is a neat reminder of how forum threads — even ancient, dormant ones — can eventually pay off. Post the question, wait long enough, and someone with the same itch and a dusty backup drive might just come through.