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**The game**

Hoverboard ASDF (호버보드 ASDF) was an online hoverboard racing game by **Anipark**, a Seoul studio founded in 2000. In Korea it was operated by **Netmarble**. Anipark marketed it as the world's first online "board riding" game. The name comes from the fact that you played it with only the A, S, D and F keys.

You raced other players down tracks doing tricks, earned a currency called *Wiz* to spend on power-ups and cosmetics, and gained rank-based EXP that you spent on acceleration, speed and turning stats.

It ran on `www.asdfgame.com\` (Korean) and `global.asdfgame.com` (English/global).

**Timeline, including a correction**

Every English wiki entry says it shut down on **31 May 2005**. That date is only the **global/English server**. Korean sources have Netmarble running the game from **August 2004** until **November 2005**. GameFAQs separately lists a PC release date of 17 January 2005, which is probably the commercial launch as opposed to the earlier service start. Worth knowing if you're searching, because it widens the window by about six months.

**What I found**

I pulled the archived download page from the global site (`global.asdfgame.com/Download/client/client.asp`, Wayback snapshot 2005-01-21) and extracted the live download link out of the HTML:

ftp://anipark.nefficient.co.kr/pub/anipark/game\_eng/full/Hoverboard\_ASDF\_Setup\_Eng\_1.06.exe

So the English full client was **v1.06**, the installed binary was **ASDF.exe**, and the page also linked an `msvcp_dll_setup.exe` helper, implying a Visual C++ runtime dependency. The patch download button existed but its link was commented out, so it was full-installer-only.

Archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20050121070623/http://global.asdfgame.com/Download/client/client.asp

**What I've already ruled out, so nobody repeats it**

* **Wayback, the entire asdfgame.com domain.** I dumped the CDX index: 2,771 unique archived URLs, and **zero** binaries. Only Flash, images and ASP pages. * **anipark.nefficient.co.kr, the FTP host itself.** Wayback has **no captures of it at all**. This is the whole reason the client is missing. It was FTP-only distribution from a host no crawler ever touched. * **archive.org items.** Zero results for "hoverboard asdf". * **ani-park.com**, the developer's own site. Artwork zips for their other titles (A3, MA9), no client. * **Netmarble's domains.** Only a studio-page graphic for Anipark. Nothing downloadable. * **PC Matic and Software Informer.** Both have "HoverBoard ASDF" pages and both rank high in search. **Neither hosts anything.** They are telemetry catalogs that build pages from filenames harvested off users' machines, which is exactly how they know ASDF.exe v1.0 by Ani-park exists. The PC Matic entry is a literal empty stub. Please don't send people there.

**What I'm asking for**

The client was FTP-only for a game that lived about a year and died in 2005, so I think the surviving copy is physical or private rather than indexed. Specifically:

1. **Korean PC game magazine cover CDs.** PC파워진, 게임피아, PC챔프 and similar bundled full clients constantly in this exact window, and this game had real Netmarble promotion behind it. If you have Korean gaming magazine discs from late 2004 or 2005, or you're working on scanning any, this is the most likely place a copy still exists.
2. **Old drives, burned CD-Rs, Korean webhard accounts.** If you played Korean online games in 2004-2005 and never cleaned out your download folder, it costs nothing to search your backups for the filename.
3. **Anyone with contacts at Anipark or Netmarble.** Both companies still exist and Netmarble still lists the Anipark studio.

**Search terms that actually work**

Nobody online is searching the filename, which means it has never actually been ruled out:

Hoverboard\_ASDF\_Setup\_Eng\_1.06.exe
Hoverboard\_ASDF\_Setup
anipark.nefficient.co.kr
asdfgame.com
호버보드 ASDF 클라이언트
호버보드 ASDF 설치파일
앗싸df

Happy to share the full CDX dumps and the archived page sources with anyone who wants to dig. If a copy does turn up I'll get it onto the Internet Archive.

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^(**Disclosure:** the wide sweep behind this post, the Wayback CDX dumps, the archived download page, and the ruled-out list, was carried out by an AI assistant working on my behalf, and it drafted this write-up. I'm a real person, this is my own account, and I'm actively monitoring this thread and replying personally. Flagging it because a wall of confident-sounding detail should say where it came from. Every claim above is checkable against the linked sources, so please do challenge anything that looks wrong. I've been looking for this client for years and the nostalgia is entirely mine.)

What: the game client for Hoverboard ASDF (호버보드 ASDF), a Korean online hoverboard racing game developed by Anipark and operated by Netmarble. Korean service ran August 2004 to November 2005; a separate English "global" server closed 31 May 2005. The game has not been commercially available in any form for 20 years and the operator shut it down entirely, so this is a preservation request, not a piracy one.

The specific file:

Hoverboard_ASDF_Setup_Eng_1.06.exe

Original distribution URL, recovered from an archived download page (Wayback snapshot 2005-01-21):

ftp://anipark.nefficient.co.kr/pub/anipark/game_eng/full/Hoverboard_ASDF_Setup_Eng_1.06.exe

The installed binary was ASDF.exe. There was also a msvcp_dll_setup.exe runtime helper on the same FTP.

Why it isn't already archived

This is the interesting part for this sub. Distribution was FTP-only, and the Wayback Machine has zero captures of anipark.nefficient.co.kr. Not a partial capture, none at all. I dumped the full CDX index for the entire asdfgame.com domain, 2,771 unique URLs, and there is not a single executable or archive in it, only Flash, images and ASP pages. There is no archive.org item for the title either.

So the crawlers got the website and missed the software completely. A one-year service life plus FTP-only delivery from a host outside anyone's crawl scope is a fairly clean recipe for total loss.

What I'm asking

If you hoard 2000s-era game installers, Korean shovelware, or magazine cover discs, the filename above is distinctive enough to be worth a single find / locate across your archives. Also worth grepping for ASDF.exe and asdfgame.

The most likely surviving vector I've identified is Korean PC gaming magazine cover CDs (PC파워진, 게임피아, PC챔프), which bundled full online-game clients constantly in this exact window.

If a copy surfaces I will upload it to the Internet Archive so this doesn't have to happen again.

Full write-up with every source I've already ruled out, so nobody repeats the work: https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/1vf4fc5/partially_lost_hoverboard_asdf_20042005_korean/

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^(Disclosure: I used an AI assistant to run the archive sweep and draft this write-up. I'm a real person, this is my own account, and I'm actively monitoring and replying. Every claim above is checkable against the linked sources.)

The game

Hoverboard ASDF (호버보드 ASDF) was an online hoverboard racing game by Anipark, a Seoul studio founded in 2000. In Korea it was operated by Netmarble. Anipark marketed it as the world's first online "board riding" game. The name comes from the fact that you played it with only the A, S, D and F keys.

You raced other players down tracks doing tricks, earned a currency called Wiz to spend on power-ups and cosmetics, and gained rank-based EXP that you spent on acceleration, speed and turning stats.

It ran on www.asdfgame.com (Korean) and global.asdfgame.com (English/global).

Timeline, including a correction

Every English wiki entry says it shut down on 31 May 2005. That date is only the global/English server. Korean sources have Netmarble running the game from August 2004 until November 2005. GameFAQs separately lists a PC release date of 17 January 2005, which is probably the commercial launch as opposed to the earlier service start. Worth knowing if you're searching, because it widens the window by about six months.

What I found

I pulled the archived download page from the global site (global.asdfgame.com/Download/client/client.asp, Wayback snapshot 2005-01-21) and extracted the live download link out of the HTML:

ftp://anipark.nefficient.co.kr/pub/anipark/game_eng/full/Hoverboard_ASDF_Setup_Eng_1.06.exe

So the English full client was v1.06, the installed binary was ASDF.exe, and the page also linked an msvcp_dll_setup.exe helper, implying a Visual C++ runtime dependency. The patch download button existed but its link was commented out, so it was full-installer-only.

Archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20050121070623/http://global.asdfgame.com/Download/client/client.asp

What I've already ruled out, so nobody repeats it

• Wayback, the entire asdfgame.com domain. I dumped the CDX index: 2,771 unique archived URLs, and zero binaries. Only Flash, images and ASP pages.
• anipark.nefficient.co.kr, the FTP host itself. Wayback has no captures of it at all. This is the whole reason the client is missing. It was FTP-only distribution from a host no crawler ever touched.
• archive.org items. Zero results for "hoverboard asdf".
• ani-park.com, the developer's own site. Artwork zips for their other titles (A3, MA9), no client.
• Netmarble's domains. Only a studio-page graphic for Anipark. Nothing downloadable.
• PC Matic and Software Informer. Both have "HoverBoard ASDF" pages and both rank high in search. Neither hosts anything. They are telemetry catalogs that build pages from filenames harvested off users' machines, which is exactly how they know ASDF.exe v1.0 by Ani-park exists. The PC Matic entry is a literal empty stub. Please don't send people there.

What I'm asking for

The client was FTP-only for a game that lived about a year and died in 2005, so I think the surviving copy is physical or private rather than indexed. Specifically:

1. Korean PC game magazine cover CDs. PC파워진, 게임피아, PC챔프 and similar bundled full clients constantly in this exact window, and this game had real Netmarble promotion behind it. If you have Korean gaming magazine discs from late 2004 or 2005, or you're working on scanning any, this is the most likely place a copy still exists.
2. Old drives, burned CD-Rs, Korean webhard accounts. If you played Korean online games in 2004-2005 and never cleaned out your download folder, it costs nothing to search your backups for the filename.
3. Anyone with contacts at Anipark or Netmarble. Both companies still exist and Netmarble still lists the Anipark studio.

Search terms that actually work

Nobody online is searching the filename, which means it has never actually been ruled out:

Hoverboard_ASDF_Setup_Eng_1.06.exe
Hoverboard_ASDF_Setup
anipark.nefficient.co.kr
asdfgame.com
호버보드 ASDF 클라이언트
호버보드 ASDF 설치파일
앗싸df

Happy to share the full CDX dumps and the archived page sources with anyone who wants to dig. If a copy does turn up I'll get it onto the Internet Archive.

---

^(Disclosure: the wide sweep behind this post, the Wayback CDX dumps, the archived download page, and the ruled-out list, was carried out by an AI assistant working on my behalf, and it drafted this write-up. I'm a real person, this is my own account, and I'm actively monitoring this thread and replying personally. Flagging it because a wall of confident-sounding detail should say where it came from. Every claim above is checkable against the linked sources, so please do challenge anything that looks wrong. I've been looking for this client for years and the nostalgia is entirely mine.)