Several months ago, Namco content started showing up in my Sidekick's Pay-To-Download area, which, on my aging Sidekick2, is still depressingly labelled "Download Fun." Namco has their own cell phone download site, but the Sidekick is kind of weird and non-easy about that kind of stuff. So I'm stuck with "Download Fun."
Anyway, back then I was super-excited to pay $2 for a Mappy ringtone. I also bought Dig-Dug (the actual game) just to show support for future Namco releases on the Sidekick.
Because I don't need a hell of a lot of games on my phone, and because 90% of all phone games suck anyway, I rarely check "Download Fun" to see what's new. Today I did, and found a small pile pf Katamari ringtones!
I bought two of the three... they're only about 12 seconds each, which sucks, but that's ringtones for you. I bought the two from the first Katamari game, "Katamari on the Rock" and "Lonely Rolling Star" (the third one is "Katamari on the Swing"). Now the hard part is deciding who in my address book is worthy of these awesome tunes.
Just as with Dig-Dug, there's a heavy element of SUPPORT THE CONCEPT here. Namco has released Mappy to a very small list of phones (not the Sidekick) and has done nothing with Katamari other than the ringtones. But they have been aggressive with releasing new content, so there is always hope.
Interestingly, there already seems to be a Katamari game knockoff on the Sidekick, Slimeball Speedway. Check this:
If you have the Katamari soundtracks like I do, and your phone supports MP3 ringtones, you just rip the CDs and make your own ringtones with some free audio editing software.
I think the Sidekick is flaky about that sort of thing. It's a pretty closed system. Although I haven't looked into it very deeply, so I'm not sure.