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Hello everyone. Were you a player of star86? Please read the image.

After 5 years, the star86 story video is finally here. I'm crying it's finally done. 😭

You clicked this looking for Star86. So did I, for years.

This is my story, from growing up on a forgotten online game called BigLittleBang: Star86, losing it to a shutdown I never got to say goodbye to, and witnessed an adventure that changed my life.

If you were a Dubble who has played this game, this one's for you.

Click here to watch the YouTube video.

Huge thanks to everyone who's been part of this server, this project, and this wonderful little game. This video wouldn't exist without you.

Special shoutout to Joker, Melee, and Sabine!

On Monday, 29th August 2022, a user by the name of Joker asked for help to potentially look through their old hard drive to find any Star86 related files.

We did not have any hope at first, since the search did not yield anything interesting other than some folders that barely contained anything. That's until Joker was asked to install the app called Everything and filter the search to look for all files with the extension unity3d, since that's what most web versions of Unity games had.

Finally, the search yielded FIVE blb_web.unity3d files. That was a success! However, we came to a sudden realization. That file was only around two megabytes large. The game certainly had WAY more content than this! (All those files were different versions, but they didn't have much difference anyways.)

The file, when extracted, contained all the game scripts, as well as few stuff related to the game's launch process - it contained a scene for game loading, a scene for planet loading (?), garbage collection and a scene that shows when the game malfunctions.

After digging through that file, we then looked at the same picture Joker had sent us. Somehow, we've missed that there were so MANY other files related to Star86! The picture cut off very soon, but that gave us a brief summary of what the search found. The first files found were character bones and skins.

We then looked at those other files and found many different assets, including but not limited to: the Ninja planet, the maze, Haunted planet, the Doo character, a weird Mee character, a gray Cubee, some props, the skybox textures, ship modules, hats...

The dubbles did not have any textures included, but maybe they will be also found soon!

We also tinkered with some scripts, and now we are trying to make a server for Star86, at least a bare bones one so that we can at least partially revive the client. It may take some time though.

Star86 Records (previously known as BigLittleRecords) was a YouTube channel that uploaded all music Dubbles created and published onto the channel. Opposed to recording videos, creating and publishing music didn't require a membership and the music could last way longer than just one minute. You didn't have to wear any special hat to record music, you only needed a mixing table and a disc. After all, the game was about experiencing music.

This channel contains around 2k music, which totals to around 63 hours of music - around 2.6 days.

The mixer could be accessed by pressing the REC button in the music hotbar menu. It only worked when you bought a Mixing Table.

To save a song to your computer, you needed a blank disc, but if you wanted to send a song to the Star86 Records channel, you needed to buy a master disc.

Dubble TV (previously known as BigLittleFilmClub) was a YouTube channel that uploaded all videos that Dubbles recorded through their Camera hat, which was only accessible to VIP members. Each video could be maximally one minute long, however the Star86 staff could upload videos longer than that.

All the videos on the channel equal to around 3 days of footage. There's around 4.9k videos.

To record a video, you needed VIP membership for the Camera hat and one gold for one film reel.

This blog is about discovering some of interviews are talking about for their game and business. Also, screenshots or unseen features are welcome.

FUCK YEAH! THE STAR86/BIGLITTLEBANG ORIGINAL TEAM IS BRINGING BACK THE CHILDHOOD GAME!

I’MA ‘BOUT TO SPEEDRUN THEM!