At 2/7/18 11:54 AM, HerbieG wrote:

At 2/7/18 11:34 AM, Optimos wrote: This game crashed in Chrome, I tried on Firefox and it loads alright but mouse and keyboard don't work so it's unplayable.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/561290

Noted. I don't think that it is the reason, but @Exedor - maybe you could try to set it to http? Anyway I sent a message to the authors. If it won't be fixed the game will most likely be removed.

Try it again, but it's not working for me. :'( They put a lot of effort, so hopefully they'll fix it. Hopefully, they'll get the message quickly, since sometimes, authors don't check accounts very often.

At 2/7/18 12:40 PM, Exedor wrote:

Try it again, but it's not working for me. :'( They put a lot of effort, so hopefully they'll fix it. Hopefully, they'll get the message quickly, since sometimes, authors don't check accounts very often.

Still sukes. I also left them a message using a contact form on their website, I hope they will answer soon.

At 2/7/18 12:40 PM, Exedor wrote: Try it again, but it's not working for me. :'( They put a lot of effort, so hopefully they'll fix it. Hopefully, they'll get the message quickly, since sometimes, authors don't check accounts very often.

Yup, still not working.
The game was uploaded in 2011 and the author seems 'a bit' inactive, so I doubt they will fix it.
Rip.

At 2/5/18 01:36 PM, NeonSpider wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/640455
The following three medals are broken on at least Firefox and Chrome. For those who obtained the medals, how? Just tried it again after a year and the same problems.

75 Stars -- Not possible because the level is broken. Check the walkthrough linked from within the game itself. There is an additional rotating wooden beam not present in the actual stage (which instead has a tiny spot where the beam should be, but isn't. It's the upper-left beam which is missing.

95 Stars -- Not possible because the level never unlocks. Thus you cannot even attempt this. You can have 95 stars and it won't unlock. I can get 98 stars and it won't unlock. It's supposed to unlock at 95 stars.

100 Stars -- Not possible because both 75 Stars and 95 Stars are broken. Thus you can never get 100 stars (since you can't get those two). Thus you can never unlock the stage to even get a shot at trying it.

I just checked this game and level 75 looks exactly how it should like, so it has to be something on your end. It sometimes happens, maybe you remember my weird issues related to Brutal and the falling platform. I also checked the game further because I did not remember how did I unlock the last bonus level (it truly does not unlock at 95 stars). It is a mistake in the description. In fact it unlocks when you have 99 stars collected.
A screenshot of the 75 stars level:

At 2/13/18 06:15 PM, HerbieG wrote: A screenshot of the 75 stars level:

Yeah the upper-left wooden block is just not there. Only the spindle where it attaches. Everything else is there. Doesn't matter if Firefox or Chrome browser. Again, what browser are you using? Is this some terribly-designed level that must be played on Internet Explorer or something?

Firefox and Chrome use completely different Flash backends, so if it doesn't work on either of those *and* the incorrect behavior is consistent between them strongly indicates the game was just coded like complete crap.

Internet Explorer also has its own completely different Flash backend. Does this rely on some Internet Explorer ActiveX Flash plugin-only behavior or something retarded like that?

Again, I asked *how* did you make it work? Internet Explorer? Some other way? I don't use Windows.

At 2/13/18 08:10 PM, NeonSpider wrote:

At 2/13/18 06:15 PM, HerbieG wrote: A screenshot of the 75 stars level:

Yeah the upper-left wooden block is just not there. Only the spindle where it attaches. Everything else is there. Doesn't matter if Firefox or Chrome browser. Again, what browser are you using? Is this some terribly-designed level that must be played on Internet Explorer or something?

Firefox and Chrome use completely different Flash backends, so if it doesn't work on either of those *and* the incorrect behavior is consistent between them strongly indicates the game was just coded like complete crap.

Internet Explorer also has its own completely different Flash backend. Does this rely on some Internet Explorer ActiveX Flash plugin-only behavior or something retarded like that?

Again, I asked *how* did you make it work? Internet Explorer? Some other way? I don't use Windows.

I actually played the game on Firefox (Windows 8.1) and everything worked fine. Earlier I unlocked all the medals also using Firefox, but on Windows XP.

Either it is a weird problem that makes your browser read the data incorrectly like the Brutal case I mentioned earlier, when I was frustrated why at the beginning of the level the platform just falls down (changing the browser solved the problem), or it may be caused by Linux you are using.

I personally don't like the idea of being spied by Microsoft, so I probably won't move to Windows 10 (8.1 is already barely tolerable - and has an irritating glitch that often causes it to crash), but it is possible that some games simply may not be able to run properly on Linux.

At 2/13/18 08:43 PM, HerbieG wrote: I personally don't like the idea of being spied by Microsoft, so I probably won't move to Windows 10 (8.1 is already barely tolerable - and has an irritating glitch that often causes it to crash), but it is possible that some games simply may not be able to run properly on Linux.

Yes. I also strongly suspect such games won't work correctly under Mac OS X either. In other words, the game authors took shortcuts (instead of coding properly) which rely on particular exact specifics of only the exact Windows plugin they happen to use (Maybe even only the Windows Firefox plugin, in this case, although the Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin in other cases).

It could even be the game stops working correctly for you when a new version of the Flash player comes out.

At 2/20/18 08:10 AM, RightTime wrote: As far as I can tell the medals for Lethilia [DEMO] haven't work since it came out. No one has received any of them ever.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/695244

I remember telling the author to either make these medals work or remove them, thanks for reminding me about this one. Looks like I will have to remove them personally ;-)

For Spaceport Defense I get this Error: Could not embed this media. message on every browser I try to load it in. There also haven't been any medal unlocks since 2016 when I assume the game stopped working.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/656644

That error message is a new look - after recent changes to the NG layout - for the error messages for older versions of Unity, the same you can see here:

• Unpublished Submission

I usually send a message to the authors, but it is most likely that both will be unsubmitted.

At 2/25/18 09:10 PM, RightTime wrote: Thanks HerbieG. The medal on this game also seems to be broken. It should be relatively easy to get, but when you reach the point where you would get it the game just freezes. I've tried it on multiple browsers, with the same result.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/658557

I can confirm that the medal is broken. I just tried it on IE, Firefox, and Chrome, and it did not work.

At 2/25/18 09:10 PM, RightTime wrote: Thanks HerbieG. The medal on this game also seems to be broken. It should be relatively easy to get, but when you reach the point where you would get it the game just freezes. I've tried it on multiple browsers, with the same result.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/658557

Ok, just 5 points, but anyway: @Exedor - an http attempt? :-)

At 2/26/18 04:41 AM, HerbieG wrote:

At 2/25/18 09:10 PM, RightTime wrote: but when you reach the point where you would get it the game just freezes.

Ok, just 5 points, but anyway: @Exedor - an http attempt? :-)

Try it now. I had a slight (slight) pause when I earned he medal, but it's there now. :)

At 2/26/18 05:21 AM, Exedor wrote:

At 2/26/18 04:41 AM, HerbieG wrote:

At 2/25/18 09:10 PM, RightTime wrote: but when you reach the point where you would get it the game just freezes.

Ok, just 5 points, but anyway: @Exedor - an http attempt? :-)

Try it now. I had a slight (slight) pause when I earned he medal, but it's there now. :)

True :-) By the way, I'm not sure who raised that subject, don't quite remember, but does anybody know what was the final outcome of the case of Jupitron's games failing to work/unlock medals?

At 2/26/18 11:49 AM, RightTime wrote: Tom got them working back in December. I haven't try every single one, but the ones I did try seemed to be working fine back then. Also, Planaris is giving the same Unity error that Spaceport Defense did.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/657650

Just PM'ed Bryce about it, hopefully we have some luck there.

At 2/26/18 01:07 PM, RightTime wrote: The medal for Haberdashery by @LunaWolfStudios is broken. In order to get it you need to get a high score of 300,000 and high score submission has been broken on it for at least a year.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/658511

Whoa, so you can see a medal there? I had to check it - right, it is visible. Before the change of the layout the medals - if nobody earned them - were simply becoming invisible for everybody - except the authors of course. @TomFulp - those fixes I mentioned need to be done faster, because as you can see those issues are starting to create some chaos ;-)

At 2/26/18 05:21 AM, Exedor wrote:

At 2/26/18 04:41 AM, HerbieG wrote:

but when you reach the point where you would get it the game just freezes.

Ok, just 5 points, but anyway: @Exedor - an http attempt? :-)

Try it now. I had a slight (slight) pause when I earned he medal, but it's there now. :)

The lag has been removed, and it work now. Good work fixing it.

At 2/26/18 05:23 PM, RightTime wrote: Here's another game with a medal that no one has been able to earn since it appeared. The game is called Buggy and The Swarm of Evil Business Men by @Blockman20.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/690904

Have you even seen that dog? ;-)
Yeah, another broken one. Unfortunately for one reason I'll have to wait before doing some clean-up.
But if you will come across any more games like this - post them here.

At 2/26/18 06:25 PM, RightTime wrote:

Yeah, September... err... @Exedor - one more game ;-)

At 2/26/18 06:29 PM, HerbieG wrote:

At 2/26/18 06:25 PM, RightTime wrote:

Yeah, September... err... @Exedor - one more game ;-)

I'm getting an error trying to change it. I'll try again in a bit. In the middle of many things at the moment, so I should be working on them... but, it's Newgrounds!!

At 2/26/18 06:29 PM, HerbieG wrote: Yeah, September... err... @Exedor - one more game ;-)

Error's gone. Switched to https. Try it now.

At 2/27/18 05:10 AM, Exedor wrote:

At 2/26/18 06:29 PM, HerbieG wrote: Yeah, September... err... @Exedor - one more game ;-)

Error's gone. Switched to https. Try it now.

Yup, it works now, first medal appeared without any problems.
@RightTime - go ahead, ged sum medalz! :-)

At 2/27/18 12:37 PM, RightTime wrote: Here are three other games that seem to be having the same sort of problem that Decline of Humanity had.

The first is called Blub by @lncgames.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/676161
The second is called Tori Energy Factory by @GriseGames.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/676144
The third is called Ballooon King by @ErnietheMighty
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/674782
They all freeze up when you're ready to get a medal and won't allow you to continue. I tried playing them on all IE, Chrome, and Firefox with the same result. None of the games have a single medal unlock after September.

I can confirm that all three games are freezing when you are suppose to get a medal. It seems to be the same issue on all of them.

At 2/27/18 12:37 PM, RightTime wrote:

The first is called Blub by @lncgames.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/676161
The second is called Tori Energy Factory by @GriseGames.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/676144
The third is called Ballooon King by @ErnietheMighty
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/674782
They all freeze up when you're ready to get a medal and won't allow you to continue. I tried playing them on all IE, Chrome, and Firefox with the same result. None of the games have a single medal unlock after September.

Ok, @Exedor - looks like you got more work to do ;-) Since I do not have tools to do this ;-)
Take a look sometimes at this thread :-)

At 2/28/18 04:50 AM, HerbieG wrote: Ok, @Exedor - looks like you got more work to do ;-)

Give em 2 minutes and try them. It takes the system a few to implement the changes. :)

At 2/28/18 04:38 PM, RightTime wrote:

At 2/28/18 04:58 AM, Exedor wrote:

At 2/28/18 04:50 AM, HerbieG wrote: Ok, @Exedor - looks like you got more work to do ;-)

Give em 2 minutes and try them. It takes the system a few to implement the changes. :)

Looking good Exedor. Thank you.

1. As for the Robot - normally you shouldn't even see that medal since it has never been unlocked. Everything is on the author's side here.

2. The Memory station - this again can be a https-caused problem.

At 3/3/18 01:01 AM, RightTime wrote: None of the medals on Hungry Joe by @Kwing haven't worked since 2016. It is a known issue, but its also been a year since it has been addressed with no positive progress. Anyway, I figured it deserved being mentioned here in case some new solution may be available to get them working again.

This is 100% true and has led me to bashing my fucking brains in on a brick wall. The game worked perfectly but was unpublished due to having copyrighted music. When that happened, I went and updated it in Flash CS3 (the original was made in Flash 8) and somehow the medals stopped working when exported from that version. And now that I've saved it in CS3, the file can't be opened in Flash 8 anymore.

In theory I could try to get a hold of CS4, 5, and 6 to see if ANY of those can export the project in a state where medals work, but it seems like a lot of trouble, especially when medals might completely break once Flash is discontinued.

At 3/3/18 01:06 AM, Kwing wrote:

At 3/3/18 01:01 AM, RightTime wrote: None of the medals on Hungry Joe by @Kwing haven't worked since 2016. It is a known issue, but its also been a year since it has been addressed with no positive progress. Anyway, I figured it deserved being mentioned here in case some new solution may be available to get them working again.

This is 100% true and has led me to bashing my fucking brains in on a brick wall.
In theory I could try to get a hold of CS4, 5, and 6 to see if ANY of those can export the project in a state where medals work, but it seems like a lot of trouble, especially when medals might completely break once Flash is discontinued.

It has been frustrating that the medals have not worked in so long. Does that mean that you will have to remove all the medals, since they are not working?

At 3/3/18 01:06 AM, Kwing wrote:

At 3/3/18 01:01 AM, RightTime wrote:

In theory I could try to get a hold of CS4, 5, and 6 to see if ANY of those can export the project in a state where medals work, but it seems like a lot of trouble, especially when medals might completely break once Flash is discontinued.

As for the future: would it be technically possible to transfer the whole game to html5 format for example and then to try to re-attach the medals?

At 3/3/18 02:46 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: It has been frustrating that the medals have not worked in so long. Does that mean that you will have to remove all the medals, since they are not working?

The main issue is that the API completely refuses to connect to the Newgrounds server. That means I can't even get ads to work properly.

At 3/3/18 09:35 AM, HerbieG wrote: As for the future: would it be technically possible to transfer the whole game to html5 format for example and then to try to re-attach the medals?

I'm not aware of any tools that allow the porting to happen automatically, so you're effectively asking me to remake an entire game. I doubt that's going to happen - I'd rather make new projects on a new platform.

At 3/6/18 11:11 AM, RightTime wrote: The medals for Electric Cock Rocket by @DBuck-Eye do not appear to be unlocking. Otherwise the game loads fine. I tried it on Firefox, IE, and Chrome with no luck. There hasn't been a medal unlock since August of 2017 so it may have something to do with the changeover to https.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/660548

Changing to load over HTTP so we can give that a try.

At 3/6/18 12:53 PM, RightTime wrote: The game called Attack of Crazy Folks by @Cutepop hasn't had a medal unlock since September of 2017. The game does load up, at least on two browsers, but it won't allow you to press play and actually start the game. Due to this issue none of the medals are currently unlockable. It might be an https problem.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/659705

I just opened this game on Firefox and successfully pressed "play" 2 times :-)
But the medals not unlocking can be really related to https.
I'll check it out.