At 8/9/17 03:39 PM, Optimos wrote:

At 8/9/17 02:06 PM, PhantasyReal wrote: If it was unlocked with today's score and not just by a cheat engine after it didn't work. Those kind of people tend to use an illegitimate way to unlock respective achievements when they just think they deserve them because they got the necessary objective. No matter if no one else can unlock it fair. And the automatization is already a good indication that something is fishy.

If that was the case then he could have ALL the existing medals on Newgrounds. Also if the medal was broken he wouldn't have been able to unlock it, no matter what he did with that cheat engine.

It depends on "How" the medal if broken, for example, some developers might make a mistake in the condition that unlocks a medal, making it always false, in a case like this, a cheater can make it true, because he can manipulate variables, inject code at runtime etc.

I can't say if it's possible to unlock all the medals on Newgrounds by cheating (remember, there are three kinds of games : Flash, HTML5 and Unity Webgl), but It's possible to unlock at least 95% of them.

a few years ago, I did an extensive research on the subject, plus some experiments on some games and applications (Steam games, a few flash games etc., I've even contacted Hybrid-Of-Souls about that), after that, I created a Newgrounds Alt, to continue my experiments without cheating on my main account, so if you have any questions on the subject of cheating, feel free to ask.

At 8/9/17 07:28 PM, RedN wrote: It depends on "How" the medal if broken, for example, some developers might make a mistake in the condition that unlocks a medal, making it always false, in a case like this, a cheater can make it true, because he can manipulate variables, inject code at runtime etc.

Oh, I thought if a medal was broken it was 100% broken. It's cool to know that, thanks.

At 8/9/17 03:39 PM, Optimos wrote:

At 8/9/17 02:06 PM, PhantasyReal wrote: If it was unlocked with today's score and not just by a cheat engine after it didn't work. Those kind of people tend to use an illegitimate way to unlock respective achievements when they just think they deserve them because they got the necessary objective. No matter if no one else can unlock it fair. And the automatization is already a good indication that something is fishy.

If that was the case then he could have ALL the existing medals on Newgrounds. Also if the medal was broken he wouldn't have been able to unlock it, no matter what he did with that cheat engine.

My thoughs exactly. Anyone can hack anything in their own machines but to hack the linking between the games and NG is a complete different matter. If a medal is broken (unachievable) it is broken for everyone.

As for cheating, I don't think automation counts - personal opinion here, as long as the code isn't altered, anything is valid. Even paying someone else to unlock stuff for ya, or turbo controllers and autoclickers. It's up to devs to foresee actions that can be automated and adapt them properly. Who won't remember the "Lete river" trick on FF6? Sure, it backfired as esper bonuses wouldn't be gained, but still.

At 8/9/17 07:28 PM, RedN wrote:
It depends on "How" the medal if broken, for example, some developers might make a mistake in the condition that unlocks a medal, making it always false, in a case like this, a cheater can make it true, because he can manipulate variables, inject code at runtime etc.

You are correct... I didn't think about that. But that's partly developer fault, too. There's a lot of people who immediately play the game (or at least as soon as it hits FP...) and can see medals that are broken. I take it that at least ONE of them would contact the dev as soon as a broken medal is detected, or else, do it on a review.

I'm not a dev myself but I think no one "sub & hide" so they got to read these and do the fixes. If they don't, then it is their fault too.

There are 2 medals in this game that I can't unlock

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'End', I completed the 12th Professional level which is the last level but the medal won't trigger.

And 'Ranked' which I guess is by submitting your score but the connection to the server doesn't work anymore, as it is an old game.

At 8/21/17 11:36 AM, Optimos wrote: There are 2 medals in this game that I can't unlock
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595263
'End', I completed the 12th Professional level which is the last level but the medal won't trigger.
And 'Ranked' which I guess is by submitting your score but the connection to the server doesn't work anymore, as it is an old game.

The "ranked" medal seems to be broken indeed. As for the "end" I remember that it unlocked for me without any problems, but after reloading the page - or my memory is malfunctioning. Did you try the usual methods to deal with it? Reloading the page and replaying one of the levels? Try to do it with the first and with the last one.

At 8/21/17 02:05 PM, HerbieG wrote:

The "ranked" medal seems to be broken indeed. As for the "end" I remember that it unlocked for me without any problems, but after reloading the page - or my memory is malfunctioning. Did you try the usual methods to deal with it? Reloading the page and replaying one of the levels? Try to do it with the first and with the last one.

I refreshed the page, replayed the first and last level of both Amateur and Professional but nothing happens.

At 8/21/17 02:36 PM, Optimos wrote:

At 8/21/17 02:05 PM, HerbieG wrote:

The "ranked" medal seems to be broken indeed. As for the "end" I remember that it unlocked for me without any problems, but after reloading the page - or my memory is malfunctioning. Did you try the usual methods to deal with it? Reloading the page and replaying one of the levels? Try to do it with the first and with the last one.

I refreshed the page, replayed the first and last level of both Amateur and Professional but nothing happens.

I just used a test account to check it, luckily I haven't deleted the cookies related to this game, and all the levels-based medals are working. I'll leave the "end" medal on it temporarily till tomorrow so you can check it. Apparently the game screwed you a bit. Did the medal pop up for you, but did not register or it did not pop up at all?

At 8/21/17 04:38 PM, HerbieG wrote:

I just used a test account to check it, luckily I haven't deleted the cookies related to this game, and all the levels-based medals are working. I'll leave the "end" medal on it temporarily till tomorrow so you can check it. Apparently the game screwed you a bit. Did the medal pop up for you, but did not register or it did not pop up at all?

Nothing shows up. No medal pop up, no medal unlock, nothing. Do you get the pop up right after you put the ball in the hole, or when you go back to the menu?
Also maybe it has something to do with the score. What total score do you have in both Amateur and Professional?
I refuse to think that it just magically doesn't want to unlock, since I unlocked all the other medals (except 'Ranked', obviously).

At 8/21/17 05:13 PM, Optimos wrote:

At 8/21/17 04:38 PM, HerbieG wrote:

Nothing shows up. No medal pop up, no medal unlock, nothing. Do you get the pop up right after you put the ball in the hole, or when you go back to the menu?
Also maybe it has something to do with the score. What total score do you have in both Amateur and Professional?
I refuse to think that it just magically doesn't want to unlock, since I unlocked all the other medals (except 'Ranked', obviously).

But the other medals were popping up? For me they all unlocked at once after I finished the first level again and they all popped up.

At 8/21/17 05:18 PM, HerbieG wrote:

But the other medals were popping up? For me they all unlocked at once after I finished the first level again and they all popped up.

I can't remember honestly. I just tried it on Firefox (it's an empty savefile since I use Chrome) and made a Hole in one in the first level and no pop up showed up so I guess there are no pop ups. Or maybe the game recognizes that I have the medal so it doesn't show the pop up. Or maybe the game is just f*cking trolling me.

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I'm gonna go ahead and call it. Happy Clock Day medal is broken. I played the game consecutively every day from 8/15 through 8/24 and it's never unlocked. Last anyone has unlocked the medal was back in 2013.

I believe the Trick or Treat medal is also likely broken, but I won't be able to test that until closer to Halloween and the first few days into November, unless someone can confirm it's broken.

Very annoying when these one-day-out-of-the-year medals are broken like that.

Also does anyone know how to get 2012 Tank Awards medal? Last anyone obtained that was in 2014 but since I have no idea how to unlock that one, it's very possible that one's not broken and works fine.

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Most of the medals in this game are either broken or have very incorrect information as to how to obtain them. Also it should be noted the vast majority of medals are obtained only by game author, with exceptions being maybe one or two other people on a couple other medals.

The only medal which seems to actually unlock is The Collector, though not by doing what the medal says, but just by playing through a few levels in easy mode survival or at least it unlocked for me after beating about 5 or 6 levels in while playing easy mode on survival.

This is also the only medal which most people seem to have.

At 9/1/17 04:02 AM, NeonSpider wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/619022

The only medal which seems to actually unlock is The Collector, though not by doing what the medal says, but just by playing through a few levels in easy mode survival or at least it unlocked for me after beating about 5 or 6 levels in while playing easy mode on survival.

This is also the only medal which most people seem to have.

So far I can confirm that this medal really works like this. Requirements for which other medals did you fulfill?

At 9/1/17 08:06 AM, HerbieG wrote:

At 9/1/17 04:02 AM, NeonSpider wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/619022

The only medal which seems to actually unlock is The Collector, though not by doing what the medal says, but just by playing through a few levels in easy mode survival or at least it unlocked for me after beating about 5 or 6 levels in while playing easy mode on survival.

This is also the only medal which most people seem to have.

So far I can confirm that this medal really works like this. Requirements for which other medals did you fulfill?

As the medal descriptions are written, I should have First Blood, Mild Hate, Gotta Go Fast, and Gonna See Some Serious Hate.

Hate Rising and I Hate This Game were not attempted (complete all survival levels on medium and hard modes, respectively) as the easy mode equivalent obviously did not unlock.

Artist and This Is A Secret medals obviously are secret medals and unknown how to obtain so they may be okay or they may be bugged. Only game author has Artist. Cyberdemonio managed to obtain This Is A Secret at some point back in 2014, so perhaps he knows the trick to that one, if there is a trick.

The only other medal that anyone other than game author has is First Blood, unlocked by both PulseLane and Cyberdemonio back in 2014. However this medal did not unlock for me, based on the medal description.

It is possible maybe some of the medals unlock in other random ways, though the medal descriptions are provably false. Even in the case of the one medal which does unlock, The Collector, it still doesn't unlock the way it says it does but instead via playing about half the levels on easy survival.

At 9/1/17 08:30 PM, NeonSpider wrote:

At 9/1/17 08:06 AM, HerbieG wrote:

At 9/1/17 04:02 AM, NeonSpider wrote:

It is possible maybe some of the medals unlock in other random ways, though the medal descriptions are provably false. Even in the case of the one medal which does unlock, The Collector, it still doesn't unlock the way it says it does but instead via playing about half the levels on easy survival.

Unfortunately I'm afraid I got some bad news. I tried playing this game on different difficulties, on different modes and after passing few levels the game tells you that you unlocked a medal, it is even showing a symbol of it, but it never registers on the account. I found the contact data to the author and sent him a message, but I'm afraid that nothing will be fixed here. The game is unlocking the wrong in-game medals for wrong achievements and it never gives you the NG medals except the one we earned recently. A total FUBAR.

I saw in MGS that the game 'Build a snowman' had 3 hidden medals. I've completed the 30 levels and got to the ending credits but it didn't reward me one of them, which says to complete the game. Maybe it's because I didn't stay till the end of the credits but I'll leave it here anyways.

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At 9/17/17 12:59 PM, Optimos wrote: I saw in MGS that the game 'Build a snowman' had 3 hidden medals. I've completed the 30 levels and got to the ending credits but it didn't reward me one of them, which says to complete the game. Maybe it's because I didn't stay till the end of the credits but I'll leave it here anyways.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/615762

Actually I wasn't able to get to the third world in that game, as beating the final stage of the 2nd world merely freezes the game there and you can't advance or anything. The review I'd made was before I'd gotten that far, as the game indeed did work mostly fine up until that point.

Also you're probably the only person who wasn't affected by that freezing after beating second world bug seeing as how you actually managed two more medals (which I was pretty sure existed anyway)

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All medals in this game are now broken. If you earn any medal at all, rather than being awarded your medal, the game will freeze and you will be presented with this error

The page at https://uploads.ungrounded.net says:

An error occured running the Unity content on this page. See your browser's JavaScript console for more info. The error was:
TypeError: NG.medals is undefined

At 10/2/17 01:49 AM, NeonSpider wrote:

Actually I wasn't able to get to the third world in that game, as beating the final stage of the 2nd world merely freezes the game there and you can't advance or anything. The review I'd made was before I'd gotten that far, as the game indeed did work mostly fine up until that point.

Also you're probably the only person who wasn't affected by that freezing after beating second world bug seeing as how you actually managed two more medals (which I was pretty sure existed anyway)

I remember playing the game years ago (probably 2015) and I did get to the third world (didn't beat it tho) without experiencing any freezing problem. The problem back then was that the game only rewarded me the medal for the first level, and since at that time I didn't really care about medals I just moved on.

btw I want to say that I beat the game again some days ago (and again, not a single freezing problem) and I didn't get the medal for completing the game either. And it does exist, or so it says in MGS ("Master of Snowmans" "Complete game, you will be Master of Snowmans!"). So I conclude that it IS broken.

At 10/2/17 09:21 AM, Optimos wrote: btw I want to say that I beat the game again some days ago (and again, not a single freezing problem) and I didn't get the medal for completing the game either. And it does exist, or so it says in MGS ("Master of Snowmans" "Complete game, you will be Master of Snowmans!"). So I conclude that it IS broken.

You're probably the only person for whom the game hasn't frozen after the second world, as evidenced by you're the only person to have those final two medals. Though if the game allowed you to get that far in the past but merely didn't award a medal previously, perhaps the same thing is happening with that final medal? Pain in the butt as it is to get through, could you try to fully complete out the game one or two more times to see if it maybe awards for you??

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This game is now fixed. Incidentally, if anyone finds any HTML5 games (including Unity games ported to HTML5) which either freeze upon earning a medal or throw up an error message similar to what I'd posted for this game, alert Tom Fulp of the issue as it's probably due to the site's change from HTTP to HTTPS and some HTML5 games now break as they use older medals APIs.

Yes it would be easier if he'd just go through all HTML5 medals games older than a certain time period and just do them all, but he told me to report any games like this to him. It'll probably affect tons of games.

Broken medal on "Lost Catacombs"

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Medal name: "Level Designer". Level editor doesn't save anything (gives connection error and whatnot everytime).

At 10/2/17 08:06 PM, NeonSpider wrote:
You're probably the only person for whom the game hasn't frozen after the second world, as evidenced by you're the only person to have those final two medals. Though if the game allowed you to get that far in the past but merely didn't award a medal previously, perhaps the same thing is happening with that final medal? Pain in the butt as it is to get through, could you try to fully complete out the game one or two more times to see if it maybe awards for you??

I've thought that too, maybe it's happening the same as happened in 2015. We all can agree that the game is ridiculously buggy in that aspect (freezing stuff, medals not awarded...). But again, I've beaten the whole game twice. The first time I didn't stay until the end of the credits and just returned to the menu. The second time I did wait some minutes, returned to the menu but nope, no medal unlocked either. So I don't really think that beating the game for the 3rd time will award me the medal. But maybe if I'm bored some day I will try.

At 10/3/17 09:57 AM, Optimos wrote: I've thought that too, maybe it's happening the same as happened in 2015. We all can agree that the game is ridiculously buggy in that aspect (freezing stuff, medals not awarded...). But again, I've beaten the whole game twice. The first time I didn't stay until the end of the credits and just returned to the menu. The second time I did wait some minutes, returned to the menu but nope, no medal unlocked either. So I don't really think that beating the game for the 3rd time will award me the medal. But maybe if I'm bored some day I will try.

I'm trying the game right now... it already froze on the first level, and then resumed just like that.

Turns out the game IS a bit challenging - I was expecting a dumbed down version of sokoban due to the holiday theme, but turns out it requires some thinking after all

(Got carried away and lost my timing to edit my previous post. Double posting aside...)

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Consistently broken on every browser.

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Bitchfreezes the exact moment 1st and 10th levels are completed (presumably because both of them award medals upon completion. I call it "bitchfreezing" because as soon as you switch to another tab and come back, the game proceeds. Well, proceeds without awarding the related medal(s). @Optimos

This is also presumably happening at levels 20 and 30. Also, there's people who unlocked the first 2 medals very recently so I guess there is a workaround?

At 10/3/17 02:05 PM, SuperSapito wrote: (Got carried away and lost my timing to edit my previous post. Double posting aside...)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/697238
Consistently broken on every browser.

It works in Chrome. At least I can start the game when I click 'Play', which is what I think you mean.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/615762
Bitchfreezes the exact moment 1st and 10th levels are completed (presumably because both of them award medals upon completion. I call it "bitchfreezing" because as soon as you switch to another tab and come back, the game proceeds. Well, proceeds without awarding the related medal(s). @Optimos

This is also presumably happening at levels 20 and 30. Also, there's people who unlocked the first 2 medals very recently so I guess there is a workaround?

I don't understand why it doesn't freeze for me. Really, I don't have a super computer that can run everything, in fact it's a bit shitty tbh. Maybe I'll play it again now, I'm in the mood.

Edit: it just froze. IT JUST F*CKING FROZE in the first level. Switched the tab as you said and it unfroze but the pop-up didn't show up.
I think I was the chosen one by the medal gods to get those 2 medals two weeks ago. But jokes aside, I beat it again some days ago (like, a week ago or so) and it didn't freeze either. Now it did.
One more thing I've just realized: the game suddenly saves my progress even if I refresh the page. It was something that annoyed me because even if you returned to the menu the whole progress was lost. This is very weird.

At 10/3/17 02:19 PM, Optimos wrote: It works in Chrome. At least I can start the game when I click 'Play', which is what I think you mean.

Well, so does in firefox (it starts laggy as hell and then freezes while screening an image very similar to the game thumbnail). On Chrome it does not even do that. It just stays black screen all the time.

edit: Since you did unlock these snowman medals only couple weeks ago and now you're locked out too due to the glitch (and I know you are a legit player) then we can only assume the dev messed up the game (maybe on purpose, maybe trying to fix the issue but instead just made it 100% glitched for good). So it's the devs fault either way.

Edit 2: It's about time NG staff starts applying some form of penalty to devs who put flawed medal coding on games that prevents people from achieving it. ESPECIALLY those who refuse to fix them after being contacted. >:(

At 10/3/17 02:19 PM, Optimos wrote: It works in Chrome. At least I can start the game when I click 'Play', which is what I think you mean.

Okaaaay.... The game just loaded for me, after I tried to open it on chrome several times - I left the window open in the background, now the game just appeared fully loaded.

All right then. Confirmed that the game works in Chrome.

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At 10/3/17 02:36 PM, SuperSapito wrote:

edit: Since you did unlock these snowman medals only couple weeks ago and now you're locked out too due to the glitch (and I know you are a legit player) then we can only assume the dev messed up the game (maybe on purpose, maybe trying to fix the issue but instead just made it 100% glitched for good). So it's the devs fault either way.

It's hard to think that the dev was trying to fix the game or anything, considering that the game is from 2013 and that he hasn't contributed to the site since then. So I don't think that's the reason.
Oh well, guess I'm getting in the suspicious hackers list. It was nice getting medals with you guys but it's time to say goodbye... (lel).

Edit 2: It's about time NG staff starts applying some form of penalty to devs who put flawed medal coding on games that prevents people from achieving it. ESPECIALLY those who refuse to fix them after being contacted. >:(

Actually that's always been common in medal games. And now it is even more common, due to all this rise of Unity, HTML, etc games. At least there's this thread for informing about those medals, it's something :)

At 10/3/17 02:59 PM, Optimos wrote: It's hard to think that the dev was trying to fix the game or anything, considering that the game is from 2013 and that he hasn't contributed to the site since then. So I don't think that's the reason.
Oh well, guess I'm getting in the suspicious hackers list. It was nice getting medals with you guys but it's time to say goodbye... (lel).

I can't laugh because I'm on that list. The reason? I unlocked medals in games PhantasyReal didn't even play - He/she said that explicitly. I'm feeling like a small kid in line for picks for a basketball match :P Good thing that you, me and others know what a community is and help each other find those medals.

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Has broken medals - they are being awarded at the first game instead of the second:

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I'm not surprised because I say it before in an older pair of games by @BanglaBoy96

Listen to me @Optimos and @SuperSapito

If it's an HTML5 game (including Unity games ported to HTML5 rather than Unity Web Player), and upon doing what should unlock a medal, the game either freezes or throws up an error similar to what I'd posted about "TypeError: NG.medals is undefined"

*OR*

If it's any game that gives connection errors (including Flash games in this case)

Then post about it in this thread here https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1426552 as it's likely Newgrounds' transition from HTTP to HTTPS which is breaking it, and Tom Fulp specifically wants you to post about it in that thread to bring it to his attention.

In particular if they're games you've played only extremely recently. And yes read through that thread. It will probably affect a ton of HTML5 games in particular, and especially older HTML5 games. From the other few games you've both posted after my posting, it's looking very much like they are good candidates for this. Read that thread and post accordingly. And keep what I've said in mind.