Changes to phones, membership and the service

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Dated changes to AW-NET membership, registration and the list of supported phones, from pages saved over the life of the service.

Enrollment route changed for i-mode on January 24, 2005

January 27, 2005 membership page.

English reading: join through AW-NET Mobile, at ¥315 per month including tax. After joining, use Account management → Register/change PC login ID on the mobile top page to register an AWID and password, then use them on the PC site. The page warns that more than one month without mobile access can prevent PC login. It adds that the displayed new access method took effect January 24, 2005, with only the i-mode route changing.

The revised illustration is explicitly linked as /pc/image/nyukai_img03.gif, sized 480 × 132. Its direct preservation request failed. The January 14 replay request resolved to this January 27 body, so it does not establish that the future change was announced January 14.

Phone and card change policy revisions

Six preserved general-FAQ response files were compared directly. The February/April-requested aboutaw_top.html files and May 3, July 17 and October 16, 2004 aboutaw.html files contain the simpler same-number rule: a handset change preserving the number retains data; a changed number cannot transfer it. The February request resolved to April 19, so these are not five independent dated policy witnesses. Replay request dates can differ from resolved dates, as the earlier retrieval reading explains.

The March 5, 2005 FAQ response adds “except for changes between MOVA and FOMA” to that rule. English reading: keeping the number during an ordinary handset change preserves data, but a changed number or a mova ↔ FOMA change cannot transfer it. This establishes the restriction by the preserved March response, without establishing when it was introduced between preserved versions. It is not a blanket claim about every later carrier migration.

The March version also says a card registered through the previous phone becomes unusable after the stated number change, cannot be registered through the new phone, and therefore cannot supply the previously played data. It does not say the server physically erases those records. The same FAQ explicitly permits only one concurrently registered card per person. Its server-recovery qualification makes that service member-only and declines to guarantee or repair nonmembers' or former members' data; it establishes no cancellation steps or retention deadline. Its additional offline-feature table and original status indicators are translated separately.

All six files also answer the request to delete an existing AW-card registration and register a new card: “The current specification does not allow this.” This is distinct from the separately documented card transfer procedure, which uses a new unused destination card. No successful mobile account-change or migration screen has been recovered.

Preserved PC login markup and public contact forms

The form catalogue groups 70 control/action signatures across 923 preserved responses containing forms. These include repeated ranking controls and navigation buttons; they are not 70 enrollment screens. No forms were submitted.

The February 14, 2004 PC login response contains aid, pas and hidden rmd controls. Its two text-entry tags use the misspelled attribute tyep, and the password tag uses passward. Thus the preserved markup does not declare a recognized password-input type. A default text-field rendering is an HTML interpretation, not an observed historical-browser screenshot. The April 8 revision correctly declares type="password" for pas; both entries have size="16" and a 115×20-pixel style, with no maxlength attribute. Size 16 does not establish a 16-character credential limit.

The November 14 Victory Furlong inquiry page and December 23 path revision preserve a public Inquiry — Inquiry form. It is not account or stable creation. Its labels translate as follows:

The inquiry categories are opinions, impressions, AW-card trouble, gameplay trouble, personal-data trouble and shared-AW-point trouble. The text area is 60 columns × 10 rows. The misspelling emale belongs to the original field names. No submitted inquiry, acknowledgement or staff reply survives in this evidence.

The December 11 general feedback form, plus a sample-path version, posts to webform.cgi and requests name, email, sex and a comment. Two checkbox labels mean Display a copy of the submitted content (c_copy) and Submit without showing a confirmation page (no_check). The latter is checked in the original HTML. “Display a copy” does not say an email copy would be sent. This is another feedback flow, not membership signup; its successful result remains missing.

Dated phone support lists

The structured compatibility index preserves original Japanese text, roster items and internal dates across recovered DoCoMo, au and Vodafone responses. The translated heading is “List of supported models.” “As of” dates describe the list, while capture dates describe preservation.

DoCoMo / i-mode, as of January 26, 2005 lists P213i, SO213i/S, 251/252/253-series entries, individual 503 models, broad 504 (i, iS) and 505 (i, iS, iGPS) family labels, individual 506 models, F2051/N2051, F2102V/N2102V/P2102V/N2701, several 900 models, and F901iC/N901iC. The full exact list is in the index.

au / EZweb, as of January 25, 2005 explicitly includes INFOBAR and talby, alongside W22SA, W21-series entries, W11K/H and named A550x, A540x, A530x, A301x, C300x, C5001T, A1403K, A1401K and A1304T models. It is a dated list, not proof of their initial support dates.

Vodafone live!, as of September 24, 2004 lists V801SH, V801SA, V602SH, V601T, V601SH, V601N, J-T51, J-SH53, J-SH52, J-SH51, J-SA51, J-P51, J-N51 and J-K51. Its January 2005 capture still carries the September date. It should not be described as a roster newly updated in January.

Compatibility alone does not establish ringtone formats, wallpaper dimensions, download filenames, billing screens or successful registration on each model.

Detailed point awards survive by October 16, 2004

October 16, 2004 FAQ.

This original revision already contains the detailed Isuka/Kintaro/NEOWAVE shared-point earning table previously documented from the March 2005 FAQ. It moves the confirmed preservation date of that table earlier; it does not establish its first introduction date. The mode-dependent awards are translated in Game features and points.

The NEOWAVE CPU entry retains +15 for starting, +20 for continuing, and a conflicting 15-point maximum and minimum. It is the same unresolved source inconsistency rather than a basis for silently correcting the awards. The Isuka versus entries also explicitly say one card use is deducted after either victory or defeat. These are card-use counts, separate from shared points and rank experience.

NEOWAVE network service: August 5, 2004 at 10:00

November 21 event-page capture retaining the August 5 notice.

The notice expressly dates the start of NEOWAVE's network service to August 5 at 10:00. It says AW cards then become usable in play to record results and obtain additional content through shared points. Its mobile/PC content includes rankings, character-use rates, alternate colours and standby-image downloads. The points are shared with Isuka and Kintaro; users are directed to join by mobile before using member services.

This is a network-service start notice, distinct from the game's July arcade release. A later archive capture retaining the notice is not its publication date. It adds first-party corroboration of phone wallpaper availability and the membership route, without a complete download catalog or per-item prices.

The same page retains an October 21 announcement of a November 1–30, 2004 campaign awarding 3,000 shared points to existing members and new members who joined by month's end. It explicitly limits the award to once, including when a user leaves and rejoins. This complements the preserved promotional graphic; it is not a recurring monthly bonus.

Dated event schedules and test-card distinctions

November 2004 event page gives Fight Money round 1 as November 1–7, round 2 as November 29–December 5; ring competition round 1 as November 15–21, round 2 as December 13–19. The January 29, 2005 revision gives round 3 as January 17–23 and January 31–February 6, respectively. These are scheduled events with separate event balances, not new shared-point earning formulas.

June 18, 2004 event-page capture advertises the June 18–20 NEOWAVE test at Ueno Vortex. Test cards cost ¥100, commercial cards could not be used, and June 4–6 and June 11–13 test cards remained usable. Test data would not transfer to commercial operation. This page also advertises Kintaro testing with ¥100 cards usable up to 200 times. These limits and prices belong to the stated tests, not a nationwide commercial card tariff.

Operator installation witness

Sosho operator homepage, captured May 10, 2004 carries an April 23 entry saying U-Factory Anjo received Net Select: Salaryman Kintaro. This is an operator's installation notice. The page gives no AW-NET contract, registration screen, card price or network specification. A venue-level arrival date need not match a nationwide release date.