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Official Broken Medals Thread

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Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-03-08 10:16:52


At 3/8/20 10:12 AM, TomFulp wrote:
At 3/7/20 12:39 PM, joshescue18 wrote:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/536052/format/flash
No, it plays a video format instead.

Ah I think it works on my end because I have "Use Newgrounds Player for Flash" checked off on my account settings - in your case it's still checking for the Flash plugin and the browser is telling it Flash isn't supported.


On Firefox Flash is still supported, I can turn it on and those submissions are loading as plain videos.


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Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-03-19 17:37:48


At 3/8/20 10:16 AM, HerbieG wrote:
At 3/8/20 10:12 AM, TomFulp wrote:
At 3/7/20 12:39 PM, joshescue18 wrote:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/536052/format/flash
No, it plays a video format instead.

Ah I think it works on my end because I have "Use Newgrounds Player for Flash" checked off on my account settings - in your case it's still checking for the Flash plugin and the browser is telling it Flash isn't supported.

On Firefox Flash is still supported, I can turn it on and those submissions are loading as plain videos.


I downloaded the Newgrounds player and got all the medals from this movie in Firefox. The Newgrounds player has worked for me on movies:


4 Swords Misadventures 7

Africa Dudes


There is still three movies by the same author with medals, but I can't get to open them with Newgrounds Player.


These movies are:


4 Swords Misadventures 8,

4 Swords Misadventures 9

Warriors of the Portal


Btw, are there any other movies with medals? Is there a way to find them? For games, there is a special search feature of Games with medals, but as far as I know there is no such thing for movies.

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-03-20 10:50:57


The game freezes when you talk to the wise man after completing the first quest, which is probably when you are supposed to get the first medal. Latest medal unlocks are in September 2017 (except for @fanka6112 who got a few medals in December 2017), so it could be another HTTP issue.

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-03-28 15:13:56


At 3/20/20 10:50 AM, OneThousandMeeps wrote://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/691128
The game freezes when you talk to the wise man after completing the first quest, which is probably when you are supposed to get the first medal. Latest medal unlocks are in September 2017 (except for @fanka6112 who got a few medals in December 2017), so it could be another HTTP issue.


Game freezes after you reach 10,000. Unlocks also stop in September 2017.

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-03-31 12:17:45


At 3/19/20 05:37 PM, MeGa-wise wrote:
At 3/8/20 10:16 AM, HerbieG wrote:
At 3/8/20 10:12 AM, TomFulp wrote:
At 3/7/20 12:39 PM, joshescue18 wrote:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/536052/format/flash
No, it plays a video format instead.

Ah I think it works on my end because I have "Use Newgrounds Player for Flash" checked off on my account settings - in your case it's still checking for the Flash plugin and the browser is telling it Flash isn't supported.

On Firefox Flash is still supported, I can turn it on and those submissions are loading as plain videos.

I downloaded the Newgrounds player and got all the medals from this movie in Firefox. The Newgrounds player has worked for me on movies:


That is not a good solution because Newgrounds player is a Windows-only program. A good solution would be if Newgrounds didn't use Ruffle at all (if the user didn't want it to) and just reverted to using the builtin Flash plugin in the user's browser. That solution would work for everyone.


The problem is entirely that, at least with movies, if you choose to view as Flash content rather than embedded video, that Newgrounds currently forces Ruffle on it, and Ruffle is broken. When there is no good reason we shouldn't be able to say, in user settings, never use Ruffle always use browser plugin for Flash content.


And, again, going forward, this is possible for all as you can use Waterfox browser (if a 64-bit machine -- most of them these days) or Pale Moon browser (if an older 32-bit machine) and just put the NPAPI Flash plugin in that. That'll work indefinitely even beyond the Flash death cutoff point. And would work on Newgrounds too were it not for this Ruffle stubbornness. That is 100% what the problem is.


Now, I understand the motivation behind Ruffle. I understand the motivation behind the Newgrounds player. But what people need to understand is that those solutions don't work for everybody and there is literally no good reason not to allow the user to just use what their browser and builtin plugins can do, if the user so chooses, and if they got that setup to work just fine.


It's like trying to force games through an emulator versus playing them on the original console. It's never going to be as good, and oftentimes there are bugs in the emulation which were not present on the actual consoles, or the timing will be off, or other problems. Sure, you can use that if you have no other options, but the original is always preferable because anything else is at best an imitation, even however good an imitation it might be.


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At 3/28/20 03:13 PM, OneThousandMeeps wrote:
At 3/20/20 10:50 AM, OneThousandMeeps wrote://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/691128
The game freezes when you talk to the wise man after completing the first quest, which is probably when you are supposed to get the first medal. Latest medal unlocks are in September 2017 (except for @fanka6112 who got a few medals in December 2017), so it could be another HTTP issue.

//www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/655439
Game freezes after you reach 10,000. Unlocks also stop in September 2017.

Medals do not work. Unlocks also stop in September 2017

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-06-22 05:42:50


I'd like to ask @bonchoelo @Andeer @rereclon and @MysticDolphin to either fix the medals in their latest games or remove those medals.


Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй!

And release [the Leopards-done] ATACMS & F-16s!

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-06-22 11:44:15


At 6/22/20 05:42 AM, HerbieG wrote:I'd like to ask @bonchoelo @Andeer @rereclon and @MysticDolphin to either fix the medals in their latest games or remove those medals.


I will remove the medal, I wanted to remove it but I was doing some other things and got distracted. I will be sure to remove it soon, and thanks for the reminder :)

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-07-13 14:22:13


Dragonmyths medals do not work -- I guess they worked at once point, but now when you try to complete the first quest, it bombs (see the comments on the game).

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-07-30 22:32:13


 I finished Sonny 2, achievements in game were completed but NG did not recognize them. Anything I can do?

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-09-25 14:01:45


game has no medals but still shows up on my medal list. Here's the link to the game https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/620427

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-09-25 14:06:47


At 9/25/20 02:01 PM, marajadeskywalker wrote:game has no medals but still shows up on my medal list. Here's the link to the game https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/620427


Should be cleared off your medal list now.


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Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-10-10 18:05:42


Hello - there was a report for medals not working at my game https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/657103

So far I've tried to fix it and re-uploaded a newer version - but it's opened as view-insecure on HTTP (why?) and seemingly drops the login data after that. In 2015 I used the library with some kind of third-party proxy http://ncase-proxy.herokuapp.com/www.ngads.com/gateway_v2.php (which now seemed to me like the source of problems), now I've used https://bitbucket.org/newgrounds/newgrounds.io-for-javascript-html5/src/master/bin/newgroundsio.js so everything should be ok in https.

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-10-11 09:16:16


At 10/10/20 06:05 PM, DasSG wrote:Hello - there was a report for medals not working at my game https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/657103
So far I've tried to fix it and re-uploaded a newer version - but it's opened as view-insecure on HTTP (why?) and seemingly drops the login data after that. In 2015 I used the library with some kind of third-party proxy http://ncase-proxy.herokuapp.com/www.ngads.com/gateway_v2.php (which now seemed to me like the source of problems), now I've used https://bitbucket.org/newgrounds/newgrounds.io-for-javascript-html5/src/master/bin/newgroundsio.js so everything should be ok in https.


We have an option to load things over HTTP instead of HTTPS but the toggle is actually missing on your project, I have a feeling when we updated the project system, the checkbox might have only remained for SWF content and not all games. Will get that sorted out soon!


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Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-10-14 13:13:07


At 10/10/20 06:05 PM, DasSG wrote:Hello - there was a report for medals not working at my game https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/657103
So far I've tried to fix it and re-uploaded a newer version - but it's opened as view-insecure on HTTP (why?) and seemingly drops the login data after that. In 2015 I used the library with some kind of third-party proxy http://ncase-proxy.herokuapp.com/www.ngads.com/gateway_v2.php (which now seemed to me like the source of problems), now I've used https://bitbucket.org/newgrounds/newgrounds.io-for-javascript-html5/src/master/bin/newgroundsio.js so everything should be ok in https.


Update - this should be fixed now where it's no longer loading over HTTP on NG!


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Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-10-14 20:40:54


At 10/14/20 01:13 PM, TomFulp wrote:
At 10/10/20 06:05 PM, DasSG wrote:Hello - there was a report for medals not working at my game https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/657103
So far I've tried to fix it and re-uploaded a newer version - but it's opened as view-insecure on HTTP (why?) and seemingly drops the login data after that. In 2015 I used the library with some kind of third-party proxy http://ncase-proxy.herokuapp.com/www.ngads.com/gateway_v2.php (which now seemed to me like the source of problems), now I've used https://bitbucket.org/newgrounds/newgrounds.io-for-javascript-html5/src/master/bin/newgroundsio.js so everything should be ok in https.

Update - this should be fixed now where it's no longer loading over HTTP on NG!


Sadly there is still something wrong with the game and even more than just a medal. I just played it and in opposite to the original version it is not showing whether an answer you give is right or not. But that is not the main problem. Looks like the game counts answers badly. there are definitely more than 7 questions in one round of the quiz, but after I finished a round my final screen looked like this:

iu_180822_4966006.jpg

The same result is shown no matter what answers I pick, so now not only the medal is broken, but the whole game.


Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй!

And release [the Leopards-done] ATACMS & F-16s!

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-10-25 12:05:55


Thanks Tom, the game works on HTTPS now. My other submissions are now on HTTPS too, but the HTTP proxy they used for medals is still the same (e.g. medals are broken), so they need fixing on my side. But I guess it's the price of modern web.

Thanks HerbieG for pointing out that while fixing the medal I broke the both the ending screen and "Correct/Wrong" popup. You guys are awesome.


P.S. I'm honored someone still cares about my 5 year old submissions today.

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2020-10-25 13:27:22


At 10/25/20 12:05 PM, DasSG wrote:Thanks Tom, the game works on HTTPS now. My other submissions are now on HTTPS too, but the HTTP proxy they used for medals is still the same (e.g. medals are broken), so they need fixing on my side. But I guess it's the price of modern web.
Thanks HerbieG for pointing out that while fixing the medal I broke the both the ending screen and "Correct/Wrong" popup. You guys are awesome.


I just checked on the quiz and now everything works perfectly. Including the medal.


P.S. I'm honored someone still cares about my 5 year old submissions today.


Sure thing!


Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй!

And release [the Leopards-done] ATACMS & F-16s!


It doesn't seem like the three difficult medals are unlocking for me in Fireskulls.

Has anyone else tried for them? The game has already been transferred to insecure-view, so this error might not be related to the change to https.

I just tested it with a different account, and even the easy medal isn't unlocking. It's had pretty recent unlocks, so it's possible it's an issue on my end.


the og Henry Stickmin game has a medal bug, the mulan easter egg

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/618518/feature/medal/details/24101

Infiltrating the Airship


none of shit is real

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Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2021-01-24 13:03:40


Hi all,


4 games worth mentioning, one with good news:


In its current state, Orange Roulette is not awarding medals. (https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596354) However, this can be fixed by adding "format/flash" to the url. Is this an issue with its current emulation?


Drop Dead 3 (https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/566735) has some form of advertisement redirect in it when you try to start the game, it loads an unconfigured xml file.


And 2 new ones that are not set up correctly:


Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2021-02-12 16:30:38


After five years, I decided to return to Abobo's Big Adventure to actually claim the medals with an account finally, but for some reason they don't work. The same goes for the brand new game Canon Drop. Is there a setting I'm unaware of on my end that's not letting them appear on my medals page?


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Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2021-02-12 16:32:54


At 2/12/21 04:30 PM, Nabella wrote:After five years, I decided to return to Abobo's Big Adventure to actually claim the medals with an account finally, but for some reason they don't work. The same goes for the brand new game Canon Drop. Is there a setting I'm unaware of on my end that's not letting them appear on my medals page?


Hmm do you have any adblockers or security stuff that might prevent the API connection from happening?


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At 2/12/21 04:32 PM, TomFulp wrote:
At 2/12/21 04:30 PM, Nabella wrote:After five years, I decided to return to Abobo's Big Adventure to actually claim the medals with an account finally, but for some reason they don't work. The same goes for the brand new game Canon Drop. Is there a setting I'm unaware of on my end that's not letting them appear on my medals page?

Hmm do you have any adblockers or security stuff that might prevent the API connection from happening?


Uhh, I'm not sure. Let me check...


Edit: Well, I'm positive I'm not using an adblocker. There are however these two security things called Avast SecureLine and McAfee Safe Connect that came preinstalled on my computer that could be causing the trouble. I'm going to look into this.


[1] - [2]


At 2/12/21 04:32 PM, TomFulp wrote:Hmm do you have any adblockers or security stuff that might prevent the API connection from happening?


OKAY, so I just turned off Google's safe browsing and that seemed to do the trick. I guess I'll have to leave it off whenever the mood strikes for medal hunting.


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Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2021-02-13 17:00:17


@TomFulp - you've got a broken medal in your last game! With the moderator power given me by the Staff I hereby order you to fix it! ;-)


Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй!

And release [the Leopards-done] ATACMS & F-16s!

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2021-03-31 10:53:34


There are some more games with broken medals released recently:



Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2021-03-31 11:03:46


At 3/31/21 10:53 AM, JimmyCarlos wrote:There are some more games with broken medals released recently:

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/786782
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/782339
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/781520
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/778683
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/777839
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/775240


Thanks for listing! I already informed all of the authors that they have to implement the medals (some of them even weeks ago), to no avail.

So, @TomFulp - time for a clean up! ;-)


Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй!

And release [the Leopards-done] ATACMS & F-16s!

Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2021-03-31 11:05:37


At 3/31/21 11:03 AM, HerbieG wrote:
At 3/31/21 10:53 AM, JimmyCarlos wrote:There are some more games with broken medals released recently:
Thanks for listing! I already informed all of the authors that they have to implement the medals (some of them even weeks ago), to no avail.
So, @TomFulp - time for a clean up! ;-)


Should all now be denied!


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Response to Official Broken Medals Thread 2021-04-07 12:28:39


At 11/27/19 10:21 PM, NeonSpider wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/608812

Likely needs to be set to HTTP

The in-game error is "It looks like Susie and Giles are asleep at Dictionary Corner."

Game is still playable, and some (but not all) medals still earnable, but this will severely restrict the total number of points that may be obtained, making some medals no longer earnable.

Assumption is it needs to connect to an external website (which likely uses HTTP) for some kind of validation and because it can't, you get that error.


This game will run on Newgrounds Player, but not in a flash-enabled browser, linked to this issue: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1466939


I've had a little look at the code that makes up this game, and I think I've noticed something unusual. The 'Susie and Giles are asleep' message appears to be an error message that appears when the game can't load which words are accepted.


I dug a little deeper and saw that after each round, the game tries to make a call to the author's website pacdudegames.com, with a link looking like this, dependent on the letters in the round: http://pacdudegames.com/countdown/susiedent.php?theLetters=PRLEADLKW


Is there anything that can be done to allow this connection to run?